April 23, 2024 – VIVO Leadership Group Meeting - https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/9963190968
Agenda
Times: 10 AM CDT; 11 AM EDT, 17:00 Europe
Meeting ID: 978 9514 1424
Welcome – All
- Selection of Notetaker (1 minute)
- Hiring Update CST Director - Laurie (3 minutes)
- Consent Agenda (Please read before meeting.) (1 minute)
- Report – Developer Updates (Dragan) - news from technical folks is: The VIVO 1.14.2 patch has been recently released – SEE https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/VIVO+1.14.2+Release+Announcement
- Per prior meeting and agenda item by Christian: LG members can continue to familiarize themselves in the coming month with https://barcelona-declaration.org/downloads/BarcelonaDeclaration.pdf on their own time. For May LG meeting we can include discussion and vote in support of VIVO formally supporting the Barcelona Declaration, with possible inclusion of VIVO as a signatory under “Other organizations” at https://barcelona-declaration.org/signatories/. (Signatories are organized as universities and other research performing organizations; research funding organizations and governments; and other organizations (we would fit under the latter).
4. Partner Update -VIVO in Brazil - Washington (15 minutes)
5. VIVO Budget - DEFICIT: Discussion Points (35 minutes)
- Do we raise membership level contributions? (10-year inflation impact)
- Can we keep our current model of Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum and survive?
- Can we re-incentivize and retain our current large contributor funding structure?
- How do we increase new paying memberships?
- Do we build re-define membership to grow members internationally and in developing countries – using financial and in-kind contribution structures?
- Is there a pressing need to identify and track all VIVO software users?
- If we were forced to cut any budget expenditures, where would/could it occur?
- Quick start to VIAB, or Docker module to jump start ease of implementation / user increase?
6. Approval of Budget (5 minutes – Terrie leading)
