The notes below reflect a summary of the March 13 open forum discussion answer the proposed questions.
EDITING IN PROCESS
What have you heard?
- makes me want to contribute more back (need to do a little clean up) instead of working on something else (Sid from Rice)
- we knew this day was coming – funded thru grants, at some point something needs to change – this is it – the point where we have to step up a little bit
- distribute slides: want numbers – Tyler Walters slides 1.4 FTE – spending so little money in this area, that we need more allocated – I want to double what we spend
- grant $s get whacked by research office – 50% taken off – can’t some of that money help the projects?
- need to make the case that we aren’t just books and stacks
- terminology does matter – project/product/program – maybe program is better – program that spins off projects
- DuraSpace hasn’t broght some of these concerns sooner – need to know what the challnges are we Fedora
- Fedora needs to be backward compatable
- really keen to do open source except when it gets hard
- what is the governance model – how do we make it better
- funding modeles and ROI – we are the choir, we are making the case at our institutions
- governanace/stakeholder engagement – project level and DuraSpace, moving from appointed to elected boards – have some people involved besides just technical
- more communication for roadmapping -
- F & D community can’t sit still
- heard fin position
- surpised that projects are in the red and that it isn’t a problem
- how do we get general presevation problem funded – long term access might be a better way to think about it – current $s vs endowment – and other funding for the whole stack
- both projects are mature, dev is difuse, might not be a good dvelopmetn strategy – look at other models – consolidating resources to make pushes (like Kuali) –
- governance – how to dev roapmap
- developing a common pitch for provost
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