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Moving towards institutional developer commitments - In Fedora 3.x era commitment more personal, did not seem like this was written into job descriptions and responsibilities. Ppl worked on this after office hours. Contributing to single projects vs. a suite of OSS. Would be helpful if 'on the ground contributions' development/testing, also helpful to have some time allocated to Fedora and other OSS projects of value to the community. Andrew notes some institutions reserve Friday for "Open Source Day".  Majority of contributors are ad hoc. Need to operationalize this at your institutions. How can we increase time contributions at your institutions? Support voiced for "Open Source Day". Each institution needs to figure how they can contribute. Northwestern mandates that each developer has to participate in at least one sprint annually, ensures long-term sustainability of projects. What are the barriers to such approaches? Harder at institutions with fewer human resources. More organizations like this than not. Have to make this an institutional priority. Public universities may have the advantage making it part of the ethos. If you are a consumer but not a contributor, limits the reach of the project. Smaller institutions - how do we get orgs that don't have developers to contribute? Who is doing testing? How do we know it's working? How can these orgs help without contributing development? QA, testing?, can we have other ppl deploy in production. Support for this voiced. Hackdoc model, consortial approach getting help with testing, documentation. Need to articulate how orgs can contribute without coding - will lead to coding. Need to clarify non-developer roles: dev ops, testing, documenting, contextualize around how to engage. Open question around tactics of how to make these roles known, communicated. Maybe add to monthly newsletter. If such clarity exists, then might be easier to allocate time (weekly/monthly) to project support. 

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Andrew Woods - Add new ppl to Slack leaders, Ginny, Este, Rosaline, Joanna. 

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