June 16th, 2020

8-9 AM Pacific | 10-11 AM Central | 11 AM - 12 PM Eastern | 4-5 PM BST

Standing Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/s/393158590?pwd=NTBFc3cwbDc3K1NKWGRxN1Ryb2p0QT09

Attendees:

• Carolyn Caizzi (Northwestern University)
• Jon Dunn (Indiana University)
• Hannah Frost (Stanford University) (facilitator)
• Richard Green (Samvera Operations Adviser, co-facilitator)
• Kevin Kochanski (Notch8)
• Simeon Warner (Cornell University) (apologies)

Agenda and notes

• Review to-do's from May meeting
  • Group discussed current state of income from this year's fundraising drive amongst Partners.  Slightly more than 50% of hoped-for income in as at 10th June.  RG will request a further update from Lyrasis in time to inform our next call.
    
  • RG has published the Contribution Model terms on the wiki and linked it from the website.
  • JD has recently made an announcement as Chair of Steering
  • CC's fundraising contact is willing to talk to the group but has little experience of the library world. JD has a fundraising contact with experience of raising money for libraries (but not a community).  KK's brother has fundraising experience but not really relevant to our needs.  CC to ask her contact to have a brainstorming session with us in a special call.  JD to speak to his contact.
    
    
• Discussion of other funding sources and funding targets
  • Need to have focused options for fundraising before we can approach funding agencies with any hope of a positive response.  The Partner & Roadmap Council call on July 10th is pivotal to this.  We should devote all our next call (7/14) to working on this and making our own synthesis of the issues (in addition to any synthesis the RC might offer).
  • CC clarified her suggestion of a target from a previous call; suggests we should aim to bring in (say) $50k in addition to our Partner income.  Will check to see if there is a science behind such targets - a 20%, 30% addition etc.
    
    
• Next meeting
  • Tuesday 14th July, 0800PT, 1100ET, 1600UK