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- Announcements
- Review membership changes since last meeting
- Review new VIVO registered sites since last meeting
- Welcome package for new registered users
- Review list of active VIVO sites
- Progress update on investigating potentially inactive sites
- Establishing regional users groups
- Updates on North American and European efforts
- Draft a message to all attendees: maintain the momentum, establish UG resources
- Individual follow-up for potential members
- Updates on North American and European efforts
- Marketing video
- Check-in on progress - anything for this group to do?
Notes
- User group follow-up
- Julia will send an email inviting attendees to Slack channel
- Group members will sign up to do individual outreach
- David will draft an email to attendees regarding membership
- How can we drive revenue?
- One-time money is easier to get than recurring revenue
- Gather funds for specific objectives, e.g. VIVO in a Box
- Low buy-in (e.g. $1,000), higher amount gives you a seat at the table in terms of direction (e.g. $5,000)
- Gather funds for specific objectives, e.g. VIVO in a Box
- Membership: Reputation + open source, open access values
- Super membership - membership using more than one DuraSpace product pay more but have more influence, seats on boards, etc.
- Tiered service model
- Some services free, others at a cost
- Collecting user data
- Ask for info in order to download
- One-time money is easier to get than recurring revenue
Action Items
- David Wilcox Normalize VIVO user group registration spreadsheet and add columns for membership and assignee