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Quarterly Financial Report

Reference:

• DSpace budget for 2019-2020 in Lyrasis format
• Balance sheet from June 30, 2019

There are more than a dozen regional/national DSpace User Groups around the world. See User Groups for a list.

As part of efforts to better engage with and support these groups, could we nominate members from these groups to fill one or more of the at-large seats on the Leadership Group.

For reference, see Leadership Group.

"The Leadership group also benefits from the participation of:

• 2 Members nominated by the community at large and voted by the Members..."

Proposal for consideration by Leadership:

"As a stakeholder in the success and sustainability of the DSpace community, we propose the organizational home seat on the Leadership Group transition to a voting seat. We propose the seat be available to a representative of the organizational home for as long as the relationship between community and organizational home is active."

Currently, Erin Tripp is serving as the organizational home representative on the Leadership Group, with Laurie Arp serving as interim.

Kristi

Robert and Laurie will be present to answer questions.

Given current challenges and delays with DSpace 7 development, how can governance create/support a predictable and viable path forward for DSpace 7 development?

• Lyrasis proposal for Managed Product Release approach to DSpace 7 going forward: DSpace Beta Release proposal - Brief 20191022.pdf
• Other approaches or proposals, including postponement of certain feature sets to DSpace 8

What strategies can Leadership envision for securing resources to accelerate DSpace 7 development (and sustain and grows the Project long-term)? Some possible approaches:

• Community Sponsorship of certain features. This would include “adopt-a-feature”.
• Strategic Grant applications. While seductive - ‘go get a grant’, again the timing might not align with when cash is needed.
• A concerted outreach to the current members. The challenge here is the timing of when the dollars come in might not align with the proposed schedule.
• An end-of-the year campaign where the membership is encouraged to place contribute unused funds from their budgets into a LYRASIS fiscal agent bucket that can be used to pay for services.
• Accelerated volunteer code contribution.