Attendees

1. Alexander Berg-Weiß 
2. Arran Griffith 
3. Bridget Almas 
4. Dan Coughlin 
5. Dan Field 
6. Dustin Slater 
7. Heather Greer Klein 
8. James Alexander 
9. Jennifer Gilbert 
10. John Gostick 
11. Jon Dunn 
12. Maria Esteva  
13. Nicole Scalessa
14. Oliver Schöner 
15. Robin Lindley Ruggaber 
16. Rosalyn Metz 
17. Scott Prater
18. Terry Reese 
19. Timothy Shearer 
20. Tom Wrobel 

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Guests

Laurie Gemmill Arp 

Michele Mennielli 

Agenda

Notes:

Alternative Membership Ideas - Consortia

• 2017 conversations with a DSpace provider, but Germany had a consortium but no members
• provider started governing the customers together.  
• consortium was tailored to Germany's needs because it had to be around pay-for-service
• university of berlin is the lead organization; they collect the membership from the different institutions; they stand as the communication point between the institutions and the Dspace community; the single institution gives out the benefits to the other institutions; they then nominate their own representative to the governance board and they have a seat because they are platinum+
• they scaled up from a national user group to a member; they essentially represent the entire country; essentially, DSpace is a national infrastructure
• in other countries, and similar conversations happen.  e.g., Poland
• The German consortium members are listed on the website because they match the Dspace tiers
• Alternatively, it could be that the consortium is the only thing listed (and then the members are indicated somewhere); this gives the consortium flexibility with their internal costs and governance
• the consortium itself has governance and is usually highly responsive to requests for information
• collectively, they can participate in governance because they are only paying supporter or copper level of fees and wouldn't be able to participate at that level
• they were all explicitly formed for DSpace engagement
• this also allows for more diversity of representation from other parts of the world, so we aren't so US-focused.

CST Growth Fund

• Slides from Laurie's Presentation
• engaged in purposeful work on the org home and what is expected from Lyrasis for the open-source communities
• funding to support growth for CSTs, because they all have particular needs that are difficult for them to make on their own
• areas that are critical for growth $114,292 over 3 years
  • fedora specific:
    • doing some work specifically around updates on dependencies
    • subsidizing staff changes (promotion for arran and then dan for 100%)
    • at the end of the 3 years, the hope is that we would have increased funding for the organization through membership
    • this would also give us runway to begin conversations about fedora 8
    • this would change the bottom line of our budget; i.e. that we wouldn't be pulling from our own reserve
  • broader CST
    • integration work across the programs
    • the cross-chairs group would guide on this
    • in the first year they would have to figure out how to handle governance across the communities 
    • then someone from a technology strategic perspective, how would we integrate the technologies and develop a roadmap
• they would like to make this a longer-term process – lyrasis would need funds for this but they are hoping to make that happen

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