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Reviewed financial situation: Bottom line is we are good for this FY. Ideally we can grow revenue (member subscriptions) so that we can fund more activity.

Retrospective:

• Several things that have gone well over the last 8 months:
  • We were able to create an organization separate from OLE with 3 councils and a treasurer and it’s up and running.
  • We had successful Elections
  • We did a successful membership campaign
  • We are continuing to define and clarify CC’s role in our community
  • The CC has been “pretty” engaged
  • Taken strides towards setting up regular communications with the community
  • We’ve laid the foundation for regular processes - we’ve started a lot of stuff
  • Able to live within our budget and pay our bills

• Things that could be improved:
  • Participation in this group is not as even as it could be amongst members
  • We haven’t finished a lot of things
  • We could have more open community members participating in the council’s meetings and activities
  • We need more direct communications with member organizations (examples - not communicated to Texas A&M’s interim Dean, not communicated with chinese members/prospects)
  • CC tends to be more reactive than proactive; we have a big gap with being able to have individuals and/or groups champion communication and speak/represent FOLIO proactively. 
  • We need more people doing things
  • We are not, in general, seeing more community development contributions - in fact may have decreased
  • Is there a “FOLIO fatigue” for developers and others?
  • We should have more balance amongst organizations contributing development; more than EBSCO
  • We could have a better argument for membership
  • We should spend more time doing the projects and less time with governance and other matters
  • Possible to enhance the membership/operation model is to have development support for specific modules

• Actions:
  • Develop an articulated framework for maintenance 
  • Craft the membership drive this year around our actual needs (i.e. specific roles, costs, etc.)
  • Review and redesign the MoUs to be more reflective of our current needs
  • Define which costs should be “FOLIO” costs and which things should we strategically define as contributed - a theory of resourcing and how it is applied.
  • Should we consider hiring someone professional to raise funding?
  • Can we define more roles defined within the CC rather than everything being volunteer-based or delegated to subgroups.
  • Review the FOLIO Manager definition (single person vs group)

Proposed outline, some of proposed text

• Hearing back from EBSCO design team → Rachel
• Please review the documents

• Community Update Meeting

February 11th @ 10:00am Eastern - agenda: 

1. CC update - 12 minutes (MDG)
2. PC Update - 12 minutes (Jesse/Kristin)
3. TC update - 12 minutes (Craig/Jeremy)
4. WOLFcon update - 12 minutes (MDG)
5. FOLIO.ORG Website update - 12 minutes (MDG)

• Invitation goes out today
• Announce new web side

• LTS Discussion is happening