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Exercise for the Leadership Group to look at and discuss two alternative funding models using Zoom breakout rooms, with Steering Committee Group facilitators.
- Licensing model - 10 mins discussion
- Centralised model - 10 mins discussion
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Question about DSpace - this is more global in its community, hence has had greater resilience. But they also do not have any central staff, which is impacting on their ability to grow during the pandemic.
Rosy's breakout room:
Licensing model pros and cons:
Do we have a sense of how the community would respond?
Is this really a licensing model ? Perhaps we need a didn't name for what we're talking about.
Prompt the user to register and prompt to pay the licensing fee?
Phoning home is possibly at odds with Open Source values?
ArchiveSpace does not have a tracking device, but offering exclusive benefits to support membership proposition
How would this change impact all those who are using the software that we do not currently know about?
Talking paper clip constantly reminding you you need to make a donation?
Are we talking about a requirement to buy a license or just constant reminder that you haven't yet supported the project?
To what extent does the community understand that Fedora is under financial strain?
Would the messaging go to the right place? The developers / devops people are the ones who would see this message - not the ones holding the purse strings.
We could ask for minimal information (what is your institution) in order to
One membership to rule them all approach
Cons:
- Heavier lift politically within an institution
- Folks might want to support only the elements they use
Pros:
- One bill - convenient - doesn't say "membership" but rather "support of open infrastructure" - technology support fee, technology development fee.
Maybe we need a focus group/survey to try to understand how appealing this approach is, especially understanding whether one bill ( one institution/cause to support ) is to administrators.
CARES grant could help us get the answers to these questions.
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