June 27, international outreach

Regular Attendees

• Carol 
• Debra
• Val

General

• Call In To: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/fedora-commons.org/all-staff
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Discussion Topics

Minutes

Announcements/catch-up

• Next meeting Monday July 11

General international outreach

•  Does this two-pronged approach (general, consortial) make sense? Yes
  • An alternative would be to look country by country instead of by language
  • Some countries that are exclusively using our technologies would be reached through consortial approach 
  • Approach looks like a good start
  • ZoHo, Kristi to do list research
  • Carol to reach out to RSPs via email

DSpace meeting at OR notes

• China developments; they have developed their own flavor of DSpace forked code, looking for ways to bring them back into the community
• Ad Hoc DSpace meeting notes, July 16 at OR (David Lewis)

Another approach to membership working with RSPs

• Could atmire customers get together and pay a small amount/
• Would an additional European-focused level of membership undercut similar kinds of consortial members in NA?
• Ask/talk to RSP's about the elephant in the room: exchange of contact information and advocacy on our behalf for ??

Consortial international outreach

Pick the best 3 consortia and design an approarch

• Obtain in-depth information from those who have it
• Each approach to each consortia will be unique; no pattern
• See whats going on in the country and with repositories; where does the funding come from etc.
• No initial membership chatter
• Research fact finding task 1
• Meeting between Debra and president of the group task 2
  • Bibsys Library System, http://www.bibsys.no/bibsys-library-system/ "The Library System is used by more than 100 Norwegian Libraries in higher education and research" DSpace users
  • DuocUC, http://www.duoc.cl/international-affairs, Chile
  • Red Clara, http://www.redclara.net/, Columbia
  • Ancos, http://icolc.net/consortia/63, Turkey, DSpace users

Set up meeting with Michele

• Narrow the consortial list down; which would he pick?

Possible third prong approach

• Encourage people to engage with the DSpace ambassador program to support this kind of activity in your country
• Work towards making these connections
• A way to have regular contact with countries
• How to re-start this program?
• Possible staff discussion around ambassadors program; how to include Fedora and VIVO?

International outreach (notes from 6/23 COM)

• Outreach through RSPs for help/feedback on idea of working together on a French and Italian DuraSpace newsletters for customers and consortia
• Aim is to build data and relationships that may eventually translate into memberships
• Three types of assistance: determining what types of content would best serve users in an area, translations and customer/client lists
• key to trying to get funding from Europe is through engaging with these international orgs; consortia rather than individuals
• Pay off is more direct exposure and more opportunities to speak at other conferences abroad
• Need to be enmeshed with the orgs we want to engage with
• Seems to be interest in our OS projects in Europe, two ways to learn about needs/practices
  • by country, how does it work in France and Germany?
  • by academic domain, how does it work? Is there a driving scientific purpose?
• Michele is in charge of international partnerships for CINECA; working toward arranging introductory phone calls between us and consortial reps
  • Challenge is to make the initial org introductions to learn what the needs are and how to be helpful
  • CINECA status is changing, new director, efforts more towards italian universities; colleagues have splintered off and formed a division of another for-profit company—focus will be on non-profits, but activities will be the same; Michele will stay with CINECA; gained a new RSP "4Science"; CINECA status as RSP is in question

Action Items