2020-05-06 DSpace Marketing Working Group Agenda/Notes

Review of April communications

• Beta 2 announcement and planning sprint
• Thank you announcement about fundraising goal
• Member communications: conversation with Bronze and Copper members, messaging about renewals
• Repositories in a Time of Crisis webinar series

• 2 meetings: one for east coast of Europe and one for Australia–Australian meeting was cancelled.
• 20 or 30 people attended the European meeting.
• First one of these meetings; not a lot of Q & A; call to action ending
• Structure was good–governance and members came together; online event is more inclusive
• event was purposefully not recorded; good decision to allow people to feel at ease asking questions
• gave broad look at DSpace activities; presentations were useful
• Notes from the meeting https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hmjaA_LCAcRkggZntU429coo27VZJH5aHkQFoKodHXg/edit
• Sli.do Curate questions for Q & A? https://www.sli.do/
• Follow-up: Survey focused on why people did not attend?
• Need to do something for members in Australia and West Coast of US

Upcoming communications

• Next Beta likely to be June, pending outcome of the planning sprint
• Additional webinars in series 

Repos in Time of Crisis

• Recurring webinar at same time each week
• 82 registrants for first session
• Next week's webinar announced during the current webinar
• Spain--COVID-19 collections (3rd webinar)