March 27, 2015, 1 PM EST
Attendees
Dean, Jon 
, Kristi, Paul, Mike, Debra
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Dial-In Number: (209) 647-1600, Participant code: 117433#
Agenda | |||
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| 1 | IFest and Summit Follow-up | 10 min | Mike |
| 2 | Task Forces forming | 10 min | Mike |
| 3 | Budget | 10 6 min | Debra |
4 | Hiring the Tech Lead | 10 6 min | Mike |
5 | Elsevier | 10 min | Debra |
| 6 | Steering Committee 2.0 | 10 min | Mike |
| 7 | Additional Business | 8 min | All |
Notes
I. IFest and Summit Follow-up
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- Elsevier contacted Jonathan to discuss the future of VIVO and Elsevier's role in it. Also spoke directly with Debra. Their concerns:
- Their contributions had not been acknowledged
- They had not been engaged in strategic planning
- Lack of advancement in the VIVO technical plan
- Asked them if there was anything they we could do – they said no; they would be making other overtures to other groups. They will continue to sponsor the conference and continue to have interest in the community.
- Lessons learned:
- Redouble VIVO efforts on inclusion, openness, transparency
- Address member concerns in a timely manner
- Stay the course on pursuit of technical lead, development of open source community
- Pursue additional corporate sponsorship with others
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- Our charter says we should have 11 members and we have 6. We should be rotating three members per year
- Plan A:
- We could add 3 this year (to 9) and three next year with one rotating off to get to full complement
- Add 2 nominated and selected by leadership 1 from all members this year and do the same next year (as per charter)
- Plan B:
- We could add five this year. 3 from leadership and two from all members to get to 11
- Three members would need to be identified as rotating off next year
- Either way, we are in transition and not fully in line with charter
- Jon will be rotating off next year due to retirement
- We will take these two options to the leadership group for their preference – Mike will get a draft to Dean to review and circulate with Steering before sharing with Leadership
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- The conference
- Need to discuss roles of conference chair, program chair, conference planners, Duraspace, volunteers; need to discuss contract; need to discuss sponsorship – financial targets and assistance in recruiting sponsors
- Additional issues: Designing event staff support, potential for Duraspace staff support for conference, engagement of VIVO volunteers, support for program chair
- Mike will coordinate a meeting – Kristi, Debra, Mike, Designing Events
- Need to discuss roles of conference chair, program chair, conference planners, Duraspace, volunteers; need to discuss contract; need to discuss sponsorship – financial targets and assistance in recruiting sponsors
- ORCID will soon have a major announcement
- We want to reiterate our commitment to collaborate with them and align our two organizations well
- ORCID is eager to work with all the DuraSpace projects and mentioned VIVO
- ORCID is moving to a membership model
- Kristi is taking Laure's position on the AAUDE meeting panel discussion and will talk about ORCID and VIVO
- Also a webinar coming up in April on VIVO/ORCID. Will need to clarify vision for VIVO and ORCID to work together
- Potential for big effort in the CTSAs
- NCATS has a solicitation out for proposals for areas of work they should fund
- Opportunities in platform-agnostic data sharing across the CTSAs
- Thinking also on evaluation/reporting/visualization of data
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