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- Grant Funded - Press Release will be sent before 9/1
- IMLS Planning Grant - $50k to assess barriers to Fedora 4/5 migration
- June target date and hope to follow
- Many people in the community will serve on the advisory group
- Budget Mitigation Plans - Budget mitigation plans
- We aim to look for cost reductions so we can achieve the technical priorities without dipping into reserves
- David is willing to shift some of his time
- Danny can shift his leave days which should not impact the technical end of the project significantly - we will make our technical goals of release of Fedora 5 and the test toolkit
- Great effort to identify ways to reduce
- Attendees approved and David will follow up with an email to all leaders
- Maurice York suggested that we take this as an opportunity to fundraise with the members in order to cover this $16k shortfall planned to take out of reserve
- Nominations Open for new steering group members
- Three seats open for 3 year terms
- Susan, Declan, and Stefano are rolling off steering
- Introduction Michele Menniell
- working with David on outreach efforts
- Michele joined Duraspace one year ago
- working to support projects globally
- fedora is seen as working effectively toward global recognition, trust
- accessibility is a factor since many places cannot afford our lowest tier and if we could expand the levels, we might attract more globally
- two different types of consortia
- officially recognized and already at play within the nation
- consortia that don't exist where users have no community supporting needs and no voice and little funding to create a consortia on their own
- discussed ways to boost engagement, deepen trust, extend connections between members
- lower entry cost but also perhaps development effort which Michele encompassed in community participation
- we have some ways to allow for a combination of money and effort; there is also a list of ways people can contribute
- Pairings for new leaders- effort to map new partners with volunteer onboarding members; we are one short
- Fedora Vision & Strategy
- technology team has had 3 calls
- product position has not met due to out of town and conflicts
- community - some action
- governance no word
- community have not met but has also been away
- Policy for long-term support - Approval!
Action Items
- David Wilcox send email to leaders group to communicate the proposed and approved plan for cost reduction and reserve expense
- Stefano Cossu will email leaders for one more volunteer on boarding member
- Robin Lindley Ruggaber will schedule calls for product positioning
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