Supplemental LG Meeting Materials

In the January 4, 2019 Leadership Group meeting, the group asked to see the the names of those attending the Architectural Fly-in: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/2019+Architectural+Fly-in

The LG also asked to see the 2018 travel spreadsheet here:  http://bit.ly/2GTRMqQ 

In that meeting, we discussed the VIVO "debt" incurred from 2013 - 2017. A small group met after the meeting and have jointly drafted the Remediation Proposal for the VIVO Community Budgetary Imbalance (forthcoming).

The 2013 - 2018 VIVO Financial Report is available for your reference.

Other Updates

Conference

The 2019 VIVO Conference will be in Podgorica, Montenegro, September 4-6, 2019.  Announcement here:  https://duraspace.org/save-the-date-vivo-2019-september-4-6-podgorica-montenegro/

1. The conference committee is meeting every two weeks (or as required) on Wednesdays at 10 EST.
2. Currently the TF is working on the website: http://vivoconference.org/. 
3. We have a keynote speaker, Herber Van de Sompel, and two invited speakers: Anastasia Dimou and Sarven Capadisli. 
4. Registration is open and we encourage you to register with the early bird rates: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivo-2019-conference-tickets-50867496050
5. We've received interest or commitments from three sponsors so far and will be working with Michele to consider additional sponsors in Europe. 

Action Planning

1. Vision.  Has not met.
2. Governance and Structure.  Is meeting weekly on Thursdays at 11 AM US Eastern.  The group is collaboratively writing a report to summarize the survey results and recommend next steps.
3. Product Evolution.  Meets weekly Wednesday 11 AM US Eastern.  Meeting notes here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhsW7EKhQyfHRrzh7wZNziosJAfliduXxQQVcT1w0bI/edit#  See Slack channel for pinned items and conversation.  Is developing a VIVO-sourced, developer friendly data model for driving an interface. The group recently defined a preliminary data model and is discussing ways to provide a GraphQL instance for community testing.
4. Community Engagement.  Is meeting monthly.  The group is writing a document to define four primary use cases for implementing/supporting VIVO.
5.  Resources.  Is meeting bi-weekly. In the last meeting, Erin talked about the SCOSS funding opportunity and the group discussed possible ideas for funding. The preliminary application was submitted last week by Erin and Carol Minton Morries. Contact Terrie Wheeler for details.

Task Forces

1. Membership Task Force: David Wilcox has joined the group to help devise new solutions for increasing VIVO memberships.
2. Development meets weekly to discuss and work on VIVO issues. Andrew Woods  organizes.
3. Research Intelligence Task Force:  Group is forming in early 2019. Contact Tom Cramer for more information.
4. Ontology Task Force:  Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Mike Conlon.  Current work in two areas: 1) identifiers and attributes of identifiers such as ORCiD, DOI, GRID, ISSN; 2) languages, language skills, and languages of scholarly works.
5. Internationalization Task Force:  Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Kitio Fofackof University of Quebec at Montreal. 

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