Introductions and Welcome to New Members (10 minutes)

Welcomes and introductions to all new and returning members of the 2020 Leadership Group. 

Financial Update (10 minutes)

The detailed Quarterly Financial Report was distributed via email.

Variances

• Negative variances include membership revenue. Note that in the original budget, we estimated that memberships would be down approximately 15% for 2020, however it is closer to a 22% decrease.
• Positive variances include being slightly under-spent in salaries/benefits and IDC. 

Goal: Review the quarterly financial report and answer any questions.

IMLS Fedora Migration Grant Progress (10 minutes)

$249,859 over 18 months (September 2020 - February 2022)

This grant (lg-246264-ols-20) is focused on developing, piloting, and documenting migration tools and paths for upgrading Fedora 3 repositories to Fedora 6. Fedora staff and the grant partners have been working hard on this project and will share their most recent updates.

Goal: Review current grant work progress.

David

Fedora 6 - Beta and Production Release Criteria (30 minutes)

Following the November sprint, the team released Fedora 6.0 Alpha-1. They are now seeking institutions to download and test the software and provide feedback.

The focus is now on addressing all issues required for the Beta release. The expectation for the Beta release is that the core software and migration tooling be feature-complete. 

Goal: Agree on a set of criteria for both Beta and Production release.

Membership Model Proposal (30 minutes)

With the current state of membership renewals, it has been proposed that changes need to be made to the current membership model to ensure recurring income. Through extensive discussion, 3 proposals were generated to assist with short, medium, and long-term actions. We will break into smaller groups to discuss the recommendations with the goal of approving short-term actions and refining the proposed medium-term actions.

Goal: Approve short-term actions to take for the upcoming membership renewal year and refine proposed medium-term actions.

Strategy Sub-Group Reports (15 minutes)

Product Technology

Communication, Outreach, Marketing & Community

Governance & Business Model