2019-02-20 Meeting Notes

Review of the CMWG Report

• What are the gaps in the report?
  • Lacks differentiation of vendors and non-profit institutions
  • There are no dollar amounts for regular monetary contributions – without dollar amounts it becomes difficult to figure out how to move forward
  • How do partners report back about in-kind contributions
  • How do we account for institutional differences in FTE numbers
  • Are operational budgets the best way to do banding?
    • Number of FTE working on Samvera and how they dedicate time (Local Sprints, Community Sprints, IG/WG work)
  • What about consortial memberships? University systems, community colleges, etc.
    
    
    
• What is our biggest barrier to developing a contribution model?
  • $7k just to keep an employee (1 FTE = $210,000) see spreadsheet with numbers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gX7gPd3QQ1sOSX5fWgCxP7SzaRcPH30TTvJKgOPUTZo/edit?ts=5c6d81e8#gid=2114267198
  • We can't just do in-kind contributions because we need to pay for the overhead of running the project
  • We don't know what steering spends (roughly) each year.
    
    

• Review action items
• Identify agenda for next meeting