3 PM US Eastern Time

Call-in Information

Please see calendar invite for the Zoom link.

Attendees

Michele Mennielli

David Wilcox

Terrie R. Wheeler

Julia Trimmer

Regrets

Ann Beynon

Resources

• Shared folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1bruWU6ogsDf77S0M8H6rCpHQK5Fd0THw
• Prospect tracking is here:  http://bit.ly/2KmUIxF
• Current members are here:  http://vivoweb.org/community/membership
• Current Sites are here:  https://duraspace.org/registry/?gv_search=&filter_10=VIVO
• Active VIVO Sites: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r39-DnShVEVA8Rlsl0CFcB6jYDhs-27hyVrlzovCXAo

Agenda

1. Membership renewal updates
   1. Current status and follow-up actions
2. Membership outreach webinar
   1. Confirming participants and assigning tasks
   2. Creating a registration form and sending it to members
3. Other membership and community engagement activities
   1. Online VIVO conference
      
      1. Do we need to solicit presentations on particular topics?
   2. Organizing user group meetings
   3. Webinar series?
   4. What other activities make sense in the context of the pandemic?
4. Prospect tracking review

Notes

Follow-up from Leaders and Value Proposition Meeting

1. Value proposition meeting
   1. Trying to capture things people love about VIVO
   2. Sub-group of Leaders
   3. Lots of good ideas from Texas A&M
   4. How has VIVO changed during the pandemic?
      1. UC Davis set up a research registry
      2. More people updating their profiles
      3. VIVO helps get research activities out quickly
   5. Julia wants to craft a blog post to advertise
   6. VIVO is unique - not a repository like Fedora or DSpace
      1. VIVO is many things - and is the only open source software addressing many of the needs of the research ecosystem
      2. Lots of integration opportunities 
      3. Useful to survey beyond VIVO community to better understand the core use cases that VIVO needs to address

Membership Outreach Webinar

1. Worked through draft and decided on agenda items
2. Designated speakers for agenda items
3. Planned to send out registration form

Action Items

• Michele Mennielli Will talk to LYRASIS colleagues about allowing VIVO members to pay invoices in non USD currency.