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4. IMLS Fedora grant Summary and Feedback
Sandy Nyberg at LYRASIS wrote the preproposal - will begin working on full proposal next week. Real benefit to work with a grant-writing person. Proposal is to do work we already want to do - identify pilot institutions and complete a migration. Real output is to develop some tools for the community - migration tooling, documentation, videos, case studies. Target group Fedora 3 - 6.
Timeline: due to IMLS before the end of March. Would like to hear from Leaders about how to address feedback from reviewers, or pilot institutions (in US). Focus on national impact and diversity will be important.
Comment: Quote from reviewers - proposal doesn't address whether the grant will be helpful for Fedora 3 who want to exports their content but not to Fedora 6. Good to highlight that you can export Fedora 3 - OCFL and not use Fedora. Will be good to also use this as an opportunity to highlight OCFL.
Comment: Smaller institutions and how they will be supported in Fedora 6 - proposal notes that there are significant # of Fedora 3 installations that use Islandora. Islandora is already thinking about migrating issues. Notable in this big picture. Fedora 3 users with custom stacks are likely not the smaller institutions.
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