2019-02-20 Meeting Notes

Meeting information

Wednesday February 20th 5pm GMT / 12pm ET / 9am PT

Identify a model for contributions by assessing gaps in the report and identifying barriers to contributions

Time

Item

Who

Notes

5 min

Roll call and housekeeping

Rosalyn

45 min

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.

5 min

Next steps

Rosalyn Metz: throw some dollar numbers on the bands, consider some of the conversation and items from above when updating those bands.