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- What does the project need to be sustainable (people, activities, resources, etc.?)
- That then can be expressed in $$$
what does the community need…then what does the leadership team need to satisfy the community…and then what type of support , i.e. LYR need to offer. We have a entire portfolio of potential offerings. That can be tailored
- TODO: Leaders: where do you think Fedora is going?
- becoming in API?
- What is the value proposition to retain members? Why do members leave?
- How can we stop members from leaving?
- Fiscal Sponsor responsibility to help think through these questions
- Lyrasis can help identify trends in general, and as they apply to Fedora
- Fiscal sponsor and organizational homes are different
- fiscal sponsorship is more limited; org home is more holistic
- Lyrasis offers different services to match needs of different groups
- Cut costs, and bring in new funding (two-pronged approach)
- Is there a list of core vs. optional services FS provides?
- What are core services, how many of them are overhead, and what are the costs?
- what are optional, can perhaps be dispensed with?
- TODO: Lyrasis: what is mapping between services and costs?
- TODO: Lyrasis: prepare proposal for options for services: less, same, and more
- Lyrasis: offers to distinguish needs from wants
- Tiered services possible from Lyrasis, based on size, needs of group?
- How to fail gracefully (help with building up, building down)?
- Example: maintenance mode for Fedora org
- reactivate when money comes in
- How to build up (from one person devoted to a project) to an organization?
- Examples: SimplyE, ORCiD
- Reputation management
- Institutional users
- Lyrasis
- Open source – alternative to proprietary models
- failing open source project is an indictment of all open source projects
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Consensus: we need to figure out where we are going, based on needs of community
Action Items
- Fedora Leaders: where do you think Fedora is going? How do we find out where community wants to go?
- Lyrasis: what is mapping between services and costs?
- Lyrasis: prepare proposal for options for services: less, same, and more
- Jennifer Vinopal start a potential list of benefits and services
- Rosalyn Metz email Laurie Gemmill Arp and see if we can get her to come to our next meeting on Friday April 16th, 2021 at 3pm