Time/Place

• Time: 11:30am Eastern Standard Time US (UTC-5)
• Dial-in Number: (712) 775-7035
  • Participant Code: 479307#
  • International numbers: Conference Call Information

Attendees

• Julie Allinson
• Chris Awre
• Robert Cartolano
• Stefano Cossu
• Dan Coughlin
  
• Tom Cramer
• Jon Dunn 
• Declan Fleming Jury duty
• Sarah Fredline
• Michael Gonzales
• Ladd Hanson
• Wolfram Horstmann
• Neil Jefferies
• Debra Kurtz
• Susan Lafferty
• Mark Leggott
• Jonathan Markow
• Steve Marks
• Tom Murphy
• Matthias Razum
• Glen Robson
• Robin Lindley Ruggaber
• Dan Santamaria
• Tim Shearer (Julie Rudder, UNC alternate)
• Kelcy Shepherd
• Thorny Staples
• Jim Tuttle
• Keith Webster
• David Wilcox
• Andrew Woods
• Maurice York
• Patrick Yott

Agenda

Previous Actions

• Declan Fleming and David Wilcox will compile a list of vendors and information to support outreach
• Michael J. Giarlo will look into F4 performance issues and, if appropriate, engage Hydra and Fedora communities about corroborating/troubleshooting/resolving them

• Lets pilot a Hackathon for Fedora Developers in late 2015 or early 2016

• David Wilcox to begin capturing, curating content for an "ambassadors" list of F4 implementations. Start a list / table in Confluence with updated case studies
• All: send any additional comments on website content in to Leaders or the Elite Subcommittee

• All: comment and add to 2015-12-16 - CNI Fedora Leadership Group Meeting draft agenda

• All: Review & comment on Governance proposals from Jonathan

• Tom Cramer, Karen Estlund, Steve Marks, Maurice York to revise Draft Agenda for CNI Pre-Session, redistribute to Leaders

Minutes

1. Fedora Camp California
   1. April 11-13 at Caltech
   2. Registration now open for DuraSpace members (see email)
   3. Public registration will open later this week
   4. Limit of 40 participants; filled up last time
   5. Instructors: Andrew Woods, David Wilcox, Stefano Cossu, Ben Armintor, Diego Pino
   6. Raised prices slightly this time because California: $450 members, $650 non-members, $1000 for-profit institutions
   7. Reduce $1000 for-profit rate to $950?
      1. No objections

2. 2016 Membership drive

   1. Goal of achieving 100 members (1/3 from Europe, museum, and government sectors)
      1. Trying to raise number of memberships and extend reach into other sectors
   2. Need Leaders to form Special Interest Groups for each category - who will participate?
      1. Europe/International: Julie Allinson, Neil Jefferies, Susan Lafferty
      2. Museums: Neil Jefferies, Robin Ruggaber, Stefano Cossu
      3. Government: Robin Ruggaber
      4. Open up more broadly to community members after establishing core group membership from Leaders
      5. ACTIONS:
         1. David Wilcox: Create wiki for sign-up
         2. Get groups together for kickoff meeting to formalize mandate
      6. Debra: Will want to eventually connect in to other international groups involved with DuraSpace
      7. Important to share information between groups so that multiple groups aren't contacting/harassing the same person/institution about Fedora/DuraSpace membership

3. European Fedora meetings

   1. Need European Leaders and others to help organize regional Fedora meetings
   2. Who will be at IDCC, PASIG, other similar events?
      1. IDCC: Neil
         1. Fedora workshop - trying to hit mailing lists to generate registrations
            1. Breakeven registration count is 25; will probably need to cancel if <20
            2. Neil Jefferies will check in with Wolfram and Matthias to see if they can do anything to help boost registrations
            3. Neil Jefferies will also see if DCC can post something
      2. PASIG: Neil, Maurice?
   3. At which events should we have some kind of Fedora meeting or add-on event?
   4. David Wilcox will send email to Fedora lists to find out who else will be at upcoming European events and may be able to help organize meetings

4. OR2016 Proposals

   1. Deadline is Feb. 1

   2. Who is submitting something Fedora-related?

      1. several things mentioned here, but missed getting them into minutes - please feel free to add!

   3. What Fedora-related sessions should we aim to include?

      1. Data modeling?
      2. Fedora 4 implementation/migration experiences?
      3. Hands-on workshop (full day)
      4. Regional meeting?
      5. Leadership meeting - probably

   4. How to get more European participation?

      1. Goal to get presentations from European institutions who are working with Fedora, esp. Fedora 4 - will help encourage other Europeans to implement
      2. Reach out broader list(s)
      3. University of Durham?
5. New T-Shirt Design for OR2016
   1. Steve DiDomenico from Northwestern helped coordinate design last year; willing to help again this year
   2. Anyone else interested?
   3. David Wilcox will reach out to Unknown User (steve@northwestern.edu) and come back to group with thoughts/ideas/questions
6. CNI Spring Meeting Proposals - April 4-5
   
   1. Due Feb. 12
   2. Try again for pre-session on repository service requirements for research data?
   3. Reach out to Rick Johnson re. SHARE?
   4. Have had Fedora panels at past 3-4 CNI meetings
      1. Focus for this time? Needs to show further progress from where we were last year.
   5. Possible UM/IU (and others?) panel submission on replacing existing repository infrastructure with Fedora/Hydra

Actions

• David Wilcox will create wiki page for membership drive sector interest group sign-ups and schedule kickoff meeting
•  Neil Jefferies will check in with Wolfram and Matthias to see if they can do anything to help boost registrations for IDCC Fedora workshop 
• Neil Jefferies will see if DCC can post something more prominently about IDCC Fedora workshop
• David Wilcox will send email to Fedora lists to find out who else will be at upcoming European events and may be able to help organize meetings
• David Wilcox will email lists to try to generate European Fedora-related submissions for OR2016
• David Wilcox will reach out to Unknown User (steve@northwestern.edu) re. t-shirt design process and come back to group with thoughts/ideas/questions
• Someone? will contact Rick Johnson about potential SHARE presentation at Spring CNI