April 10, 2020
Samvera Partners Call |
Friday, April 10th, 2020 |
11:30 am | Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-05:00) | 1 hr |
Meeting number: | 737 192 431 |
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Date
Apr 10, 2020
Facilitator: Richard Green
Note Taker: Esmé Cowles
Attendees
@Richard Green
@Esmé Cowles
@Jon Dunn
@Carolyn Caizzi
@david.schober
@John Weise
@Rachel Lynn
@Margaret Mellinger
@Karen Cariani
@Robin Lindley Ruggaber
@Mike Korcynski
@Abigail Bordeaux
@Jim Halliday
@Stuart Kenny
@Nabeela Jaffer
@Harriett Green
@Daniel Coughlin
Unordered discussion items
Additions to today's agenda
Next call
Friday 8th May
Facilitator: Richard Green
Note taker: Michael Korcynski
Arrangements for Virtual Partner Meeting (April 27th & 28th)
Please add your name to the list if you plan to join
2-hour meeting each day, starting at noon EDT (reasonable timing for West Coast - Europe)
Times are assigned to all agenda topics, will try to keep to those so people can drop in as needed
Open-ended discussion topics at the end of each day, in case they run over
Details for joining are in the agenda
Arrangements for Virtual Connect (May 14th & 15th)
Third committee meeting yesterday, tentative start time: 11am EDT (sorry West Coast)
11:30-2pm, with 30 minute break for lunch
Call for proposals open now, have received a handful
Please submit proposals
Rob Kaufman: happy to be doing something that was planned to be virtual in-advance!
Franny: Thinking about how to differentiate between Samvera Virtual Connect and (now-virtual) Samvera Connect in the fall
SamveraConnect 2020
Program committee met this week, and agreed on organizing a virtual event of some kind
Will be canvasing community to get input, more info coming later in the year
Reach out to Richard if you have ideas
Robin Ruggaber and Jon Dunn: CNI is spreading a conference that is usually multi-track over several dates (two months instead of 1.5 days) to allow people to participate in more sessions. Very different format (webinar with slides shared, etc.)
Richard: People have stressed that we'd like to keep informal collaborations, discussions, etc.
Rob Kaufman: It's hard to do those virtually, but there are options for doing that
Fundraising 2020 - status update
We were ready to send out invoices to partners in May, but then Covid-19 hit, and started getting requests to start early before budget cuts may happen
Now getting feedback on who is able to contribute more, or who cannot contribute what they expected, or one who can't contribute at all because of a budget freeze
Should have invoices today for those who requested them ASAP
Fundraising team has met, will be monitoring fundraising, and looking for other sources of funding
Hopefully we can continue to hire staff as we have been planning
Jon Dunn: Regardless of this year's fundraising, we are in a position to hire first position (community manager) — working with Lyrasis to do that as part of renewing arrangement with Lyrasis, will be posted through Emory University
Have put together hiring committee to evaluate candidates and make recommendations, includes partners and steering members
Samvera Partner prospectus
The document is available from the wiki and the website - please review and feel free to share with prospective Partners
Scholarsphere
Dan Coughlin: Planning to release a new version this summer (may be delayed), will not be using ActiveFedora or Fedora, will continue to use Blacklight for frontend
Anything to bring to Steering's attention? (Standing item)
Stuart Kenny: Who to contact on contribution document (a name: can go straight to Richard)