Samvera Partners Call |
Friday, June 14, 2019 |
11:30 am | Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-05:00) | 1 hr |
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Date
Facilitator: Hannah Frost
Note Taker: Ryan Steans
Attendees
Mike Korcynski (Tufts)
Esmé Cowles (Princeton)
Karen Cariani (WGBH)
Stuart Kenny (Digital Repository of Ireland/TCD)
Glen Horton (Cincinnati)
Franny Gaede (Oregon Digital)
rsteans - Avalon/ NU
Maria Whitaker - Indiana University
Jon Dunn - Indiana University
Discussion items
- Additions to today's agenda
- Next meeting - facilitator, note taker
- Report out on the Samvera Visioning processing (Hannah, Carolyn, Ryan)
- add items here!
Notes
Next meeting - facilitator, note taker
- facilitator: Franny Gaede
- note taker: Mike Korcynski
Report out on the visioning exercise
Carolyn: With changes to Samvera Steering, do some visioning for next 5 years
At Partners in April, groups got together to look at 8 questions
Reported out on groups and came up with a pithy vision statement
Go back and look at data, reviewed for commonalities
Hannah: Carolyn, Hannah and Ryan looked at raw data
Process - split up questions, sifted through notes groups made on those questions, found big things that stuck out.
Then, did a frequency analysis to examine how often ideas repeated as a response
Now: we've processed the data, distilled it to "the results". Can discuss results, can create the vision out of this work
Question 1 - End users was a big surprise
Question 2 - Produce value? Sustainable, something solid you can trust, sustain content and sustained in organization
"User featured focus"
Question 4 - overwhelming trend toward shared contributions to a technology stack
Question 5 - almost everyone: elements of what we are structured w/ roadmap council, etc... helps set direction, governance structure helps us listen to needs of the community
- keeping pace with what world is doing, adopting and incorporating emerging technologies
Question 6 - clear shared sense of purpose, expanded who is involved in the development of Samvera (different orgs participating, GLAM, vendors, etc...)
Question 7 - even spread across a variety of unsurprising organizations
Question 8 - healthy financial reserves and sustainable financial situation, well defined technical roadmap, mature governance structure, benefits of Samvera easily seen and valued
Vision Statements - most frequent: Flexible, extendible solution for content management
Recommendations - get some feedback on process and results, now charge a group of partner volunteers
Get some new voices in to look at the results to help pull this together for marketing, contribution, etc... to pull together a report and statement
Next steps
What is the most important audience for the visison? The community itself? Those outside the community looking in? Or both?
Should be a shared vision reflecting the community at all levels (reps from development, decision makers, repo managers, etc...)
Volunteers - what is the goal? Group to consider who will leverage this statement, contribution models and fundraising, thinking hard about that to have a formal connection to this process so it ultimately supports those efforts. Someone who is a contributor to code, active participation from repo managers, and manager level.
Once that core group is formed, they'll have to come up with a plan, iterate on the information and creating and refining statements.
Prioritization of staff hiring may be impacted Spending rec's to community - provide bridge to steering. If we can only hire one person for Samvera, what is the primary thrust? Looking at the results - could inform that conversation.