June 27, international outreach

Regular Attendees

Discussion Topics

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Announcements/catch-up

Bi-weekly meeting to work on 2-pronged international outreach: general and consortial outreach for membership

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General international outreach

data gathering
- work with interested RSPs to develop European contacts
- RSP letter
- begin list development: current contacts so far
outreach initiative/campaign planning

Carol

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Consortial international outreach

Val

International outreach (notes from 6/23 COM)

Outreach through RSPs for help/feedback on idea of working together on a French and Italian DuraSpace newsletters for customers and consortia
Aim is to build data and relationships that may eventually translate into memberships
Three types of assistance: determining what types of content would best serve users in an area, translations and customer/client lists
key to trying to get funding from Europe is through engaging with these international orgs; consortia rather than individuals
Pay off is more direct exposure and more opportunities to speak at other conferences abroad
Need to be enmeshed with the orgs we want to engage with
Seems to be interest in our OS projects in Europe, two ways to learn about needs/practices
- by country, how does it work in France and Germany?
- by academic domain, how does it work? Is there a driving scientific purpose?
Michele is in charge of international partnerships for CINECA; working toward arranging introductory phone calls between us and consortial reps
- Challenge is to make the initial org introductions to learn what the needs are and how to be helpful
- CINECA status is changing, new director, efforts more towards italian universities; colleagues have splintered off and formed a division of another for-profit company—focus will be on non-profits, but activities will be the same; Michele will stay with CINECA; gained a new RSP "4Science"; CINECA status as RSP is in question

Action Items

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