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

What do you have concerns about?

• we were told we are not in crisis, but are we really in crisis?
• urgency – physical backlog of books vs. a digital backlog – digital resources are vulernable
• many people on campus don’t agree that we need an IR
• 70% or organizations resources are dedicated on physical objects
• only 10% of our adopter community that are sponsoring – needs to be higher
• would be good to have an easy way to get from DSpace to Fedora – maybe that is a priority of the community to work on
• how do we make sure non-sponsors are included in community
• multiple 20K sponsorship needs
• deficiets of D & F are a concern, can they be resolved
• need to support community at large, risk factors on relying on just one person
• need more ULs here – need to broaden the base of supporters
• shocked at how low sponsorship rate is – thought it was higher
• donations to broad community effort  - DuraSpace – how does contributions benefit the platforms
• excitement around FF project – not an equivelent for DSpace – possible neglect
• same/usual suspects that contribute – fatigue – need to expand contributions (financial and inkind) by other inst.

What has inspired you?

• urgency of the digital dark age
• good to know DuraSpace not in crisis
• we have to take ownership and DuraSpace seems to be the place to take ownership
• how Lyrasis position’s itself as a svc – maybe DuraSpace would posistion itelf that way
• by the financial position of DuraSpace
• excelleration of the createion of dig data – is there a space to consider policy workflow layers so we don’t all re-create
• openess and transparency
• ROI discussion from Tyler
• Tyler – how much actual $ spent – suggests there is a lot of pontential upside – but how do we get there
• James stack – helped
• we are not dealing with digital humanities we are dealing with humanities that are digital

What unanswered questions do you have?

• Fedora – curiousity about additional investment – how much funding is needed – long term, short term, etc.
• what governance model would be effective
• need governance roadmap going forward
• more roadmap discussions
• more ways to particpate
• can we expand community of users
• can we expand ways projects use
• can we identify all who use Fedora
• more sharing of knowledge and expertise
• can we have a slide deck about meta issues for F & D
• making the invisiable visable
• do we take a bundled approach
• should Duraspace reach out to other orgs
• what are the other governance models used
• how does this relate to digital preservation /better communicate value prop of how DuraSpace fits into this larger value proposition
• share value propsition for selling to leadership
• we need a louder roadmap about going forward