Time/Place

• Time: 11:30am Eastern Daylight Time US (UTC-4)
• Dial-in Number: (712) 775-7035
  • Participant Code: 479307#
  • International numbers: Conference Call Information

Attendees

• Julie Allinson
• Chris Awre
• Robert Cartolano
• Aaron Choate
• Stefano Cossu
• Dan Coughlin Karen Estlund
  
• Tom Cramer
• Jon Dunn
• Declan Fleming 
• Sarah Fredline
• Mike Giarlo 
• Wolfram Horstmann
• Neil Jefferies
• Debra Kurtz
• Susan Lafferty
• Mark Leggott
• Jonathan Markow
• Steve Marks
• Tom Murphy
• Sandy Payette
• Matthias Razum
• Glen Robson
• Robin Lindley Ruggaber
• Dan Santamaria
• Kelcy Shepherd
• Thorny Staples
• Jim Tuttle
• Keith Webster
• Evviva Weinraub
• David Wilcox
• Andrew Woods
• Maurice York
• Patrick Yott

Agenda

Previous Actions

• 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

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

Minutes

Review Open Repositories Meeting Agenda

• Add conversation about European membership,
• ModeShape five and LevelDB links are the same, need to correct second link
• Training plans projections for future and some assessment on how it’s gone to-date
• Open ideas about what had hoped to gain by merger (and still want to achieve) what role Fedora should play
  • Now that merger hasn’t happened how will we approach RSP relationships?
• Fedora’s role via funders, ties into VIVO - SHARE integration with data portal
• Continued discussions of Fedora/VIVO integration topic from Summit, what are Europeans planning?
  • Couple projects going on at Cornell, concepts/prototypes, someone needs to push this forward
  • Do we know how many users have upgraded to 4 and if not, why not?
  • Ask members if they plan to adopt? What are barriers to adoption?
  • David will organize a discussion in Dublin on this topic
• Do we want to organize an informal social event at OR16?
  • David agreed to coordinate
  • Dinner on Tuesday after reception a possibility
     

New Fedora Website

• Appeal to non-technical, is more of a brochure
• About, Features, and Download pages used most and have greater prominence 
• Need feedback not just on look of website but also what features do you think will appeal to a broader audience?
  • Link broken to "Learn More"
  • Need a link for Fedora 3 to acknowledge group that hasn't come forward yet
  • History page should go in "About" page (General agreement on this)
  • Top of page, eliminate "4" and just say 'Get Fedora' then not changed to editing text with each version change
  • "Who is using Fedora" need to talk about number and diversity of users, Community should also emphasize diversity and number. Maybe a link to "Who We Are" page
  • Fonts on landing page are huge and shouting (Tom's Mac) Text in header too big. Color is washed out. General concensus that deep red is good/better.
  • Three of icons on Features, Resources, and one other - links not working. 
  • Three icons under "Getting Started" more visually appealing
  • Looks good on iPhone - responsive design (Bootstrap)
    
    

Fedora and Open Science Framework

• COS pursuing OSF for institutions, some interest in integrating Fedora with ISF
• Fedora as a storage add-on
• Need to push on this, already promoting Dataverse integration, opportunity for marketing
• Talk with COS and Notre Dame (Jeff Spies, Andrew Sallans, Rick Johnson) at OR, maybe at SHARE meeting too. Need to push on this. Need Fedora Logo at top page, Why is Fedora better than DropBox. Why a repository architecture is better than storage only. Need to push this forward with some use cases.
• Enduser services like DropBox, Fedora closer to AWS and Hydra service more plug and play
  
  

Membership Drive!

• Spreadsheet with list of prospects. 
• Last year was helpful to have this group review spreadsheet to help us update data and especially helpful for leadership to reach out and make ask to community members they know.
• Please review the list and update information/add names too - your help is much appreciated!
• Metro New York Library Council, Nate Hill Director, will support training
• USDA - VIVO members, also big Fedora supporters, Sandy has meeting with new director and will mention Fedora
• Royal Library of Denmark, need a new contact there. Birdie, director, Robin knows her will update contact info
• Need 25 new members this year, will get there through contacts on this list
• We have template letters, etc., to help with efforts

Jonathan Announces Retirement at end of October

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