Attending: Vinopal, Metz, Prater, Anez, Field
Zoom Link: See invitation
Agenda
- Review of action items.
- These action items were all pre-pandemic. Remove?
- Changes to Steering Group Elections
- Changes to Leadership Elections
Notes
Member forum second week in June: Membership story
Forum is not for leaders or steering
Give overview of Fedora Governance (outline difference between steering and leadership)
Talk about Lyrasis (Lori, Robert)
- Current priorities: Fedora 6, migrating from Fedora 3 to Fedora 6, building community
Membership: community engagement and outreach – how to get involved
Fedora 6
Life during COVID: how are people doing? How is COVID affecting budgets, signing up for membership - Many budgets in flux, many will not know what will be possible
- as of 5/29: seven people signed up (out of 47 people)
Rosy will send a follow-up email, reminding people; Lyrasis will send out links to Zoom session to Fedora list subscribers
Discussion topics for second quarterly meeting (already done)
Current priority: maintain current membership, shift focus away from gaining new members
- Membership bridging resolution passed
- Membership invoices went out in April: reviewed list of membership status spreadsheet
- Future effort to check in with people whose renewal status is still unknown
Steering elections coming soon: is now a good time to be shifting leadership/steering committee, with memberships down, future uncertain?
- Leadership Group elections: submit proposal to extend term for leadership group to two years with 1/2 the elected seats up for renewal every year
- staggered turnover:
- proposal for how to stagger
- Bronze: 3 seats (extend 2, end term 1)
- SIlver: 3 seats (extend 1, end term 2)
- Gold: 4 seats (extend 2, end term 2)
- At-large: 2 seats (extend 1, end term 1)
- proposal for how to stagger
- staggered turnover:
- Steering Group elections:
- Does not apply to chair, chair-elect
- Three-year terms, 1/3 roll off every year
- Next meeting leadership meeting: in August
- Encourage leadership to run election but to reelect current members for continuity of strong leadership
Action Items
- Jennifer Vinopal , Scott Prater , and Rosalyn Metz : Confirm at the quarterly Leadership Meeting that the Communications Group is working on developing a story for membership outreach.
- Jennifer Vinopal , Scott Prater , and Rosalyn Metz : Provide recommendations for focus at the quarterly Leadership Meeting (?)
- Rosalyn Metz : Reach out to Mic to find out if we can discuss the Membership Analysis report in more detail. - DEFER
- Rosalyn Metz : Reach out to Laurie to discuss services in more detail - DEFER
