2022-05-19 Resources Group Meeting

Fedora Strategic Planning Sub-Committee - Resources Group

Date: Thurs. April 21, 2022

Attendees:

Heather Greer Klein

Jared

Arran

Jennifer G.

Scott

Tim

Rosy

Notes:

1. Draft Survey to send to Member Liaisons/Fedora Contac

Survey Intention (Jared to draft):

• • Want to be as accommodating to all of our members within their institutions to trying to gather information to make the membership payments and renewal process easier

Timeline: 2 weeks w/ reminder after 1 week - aim to send last week of May/beginning of June

Proposed Questions:

1. 1. Name
   2. Institution
   3. Current version of Fedora (if Fedora 6, move to question 5 ) - checkboxes
   4. Do you have plans to migrate to Fedora 6
      1. Yes
      2. No
      3. Undecided (add a field to allow notes, but not make it required)
   5. Front-end
      1. Islandora
      2. Samvera
      3. Local
   6. Fiscal Calendar Year
   7. For your specific institution which of the following would be more beneficial:
      1. Fedora Membership
      2. Direct Funding for Fedora software
      3. Other
         1. Please specify

2. Other Areas of Focus to Prioritize:

• Success Stories - high value impact, many people looking to these types of stories
  • Seth Shaw, UNLV
  • Oliver Schoener, Berlin State Library
  • Call out on Slack channels
  • Add to newsletter
  • Listserv
  • Code4Lib
  • pasig-discuss@lists.stanford.edu
  • https://groups.google.com/g/digital-curation
  • NDSA-ALL@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
• Who comes to mind?
• Volunteers to make the outreach?
• How do we want to share them?
• Open House - we can set this up over the summer
• Topics?
• Suggested demos/content
• Demo Videos
• User Group Meetings

3. Membership

• Landscape analysis of what other open source programs/projects are doing as their version of “membership”
• Outside Open Conference to look for ideas