Content Comparison

Note taker

Simeon Warner

Note taker for May 12? @Rachel Kotarski

Updates / Checkins

Simeon Warner

• Governance - agreed by all councils as of 2025-04-14 and now updated on the wiki: https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/Y5J

• Friends of FOLIO - added a note on https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/Y5p , review/comments/suggestions welcome. Also noted that the levels apply to FY26

• Elections - update from committee

• Joseph Grobelny

  • ACTION: will be moving forward soon with help of Boaz Nadav Manes , recognizing the need for ample time for nomination

• No meeting on May 26 (Memorial Day in the US)

  • ACTION - Simeon to poll CC via Slack to see if we can find an alternative day - DONE, agreed that CC will meet on Friday May 23 at usual time

FOLIO Vision Statement

spampell Joseph Grobelny Shawn Nicholson Jesse Koennecke

• Action from https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/KgD8Ng: Group for vision statement - stephen (lead), joe, shawn/claude, jesse, maybe hannah

  • Documents taken into consideration: https://folio.org/about/ -
    FOLIO Vision, Strategic Objectives and Initiatives

  • First Draft

    Lref gdrive file
    url https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iCB2A0XN1F8PFRyzyvsNRZLc5mCxdbVTYkkt5Kctzoc/edit?usp=sharing

    for comments shared at 2025-04-14 meeting

  • Vision is expected to be aspirational

    Determining whether “Guide” the Community or “Directs” the Community development is the best word choice

    • Direct suggests control

    • Guide suggests less firm

    • How is this related to Community resourcing?

  • ACTION: Table until next CC meeting - ADDED TO 2025-05-12 Community Council Meeting Minutes AGENDA

Member meeting data and plan

Joseph Grobelny Kirstin Kemner-HeekKristin Martin Mike Gorrell (for members subcommittee)

Fix data plus discuss other apsects

• No later than mid-June to avoid vacation times.

• Dates:

  • June 5th may work, perhaps at 10:00am EDT/16:00 CEST

  • June 12th may work, perhaps at 10:00am EDT/16:00 CEST

  • Agenda is developing

    • Treasurer report

    • What does membership mean, why is it important?

    • Review of spring CC Summit

    • Future look at WOLFCon

  • ACTION: Joseph Grobelny will announce

    June 5th may work, perhaps at 10:00am EDT/16:00 CEST with a one question survey

Review draft letters to members and non-members

Joseph Grobelny Kirstin Kemner-HeekKristin Martin Mike Gorrell (for members subcommittee)

Draft slides:

• The last slide offers links to contextual documents

• Consider what is appropriate for members and non members

  • Connections to Vision Statement, Contribution Network (create revenue streams for new functionality, create a bulletin board of needs and a roster of development organizations, create a general support pool for and a scoring rubric for maintanance of modules--sizes the workload)

• ACTION: Mike Gorrell will share Contribution Network draft paper via Slack seeking feedback and then a future CC meeting

• ACTION: Boaz Nadav Manes will share FOLIO Membership Messaging slide deck via Slack asking for review and feedback

Welcome letter to FOLIO institutions that are not FOLIO members

Shawn Nicholson Joseph Grobelny

• Latest draft

  Lref gdrive file
  url https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OmhUQxVZjkTGahzHY_Et1lezrlZxkcA_YFvZ4s50eHE/edit?usp=sharing

  agreed at previous meeting

• Are we OK with inviting everyone to CC for a quick intro? (potentially up to 200 institutions)

  • What a happy problem to sort through should it come to pass

• How do we get contacts to send this out and coordinate with other letters?

  • ACTION: Shawn Nicholson and Christopher Spalding will identify head librarian at each institution to add to a spreadsheet

• Consider other ways to identify and send the letter? The preference is for the letter to come from the CC co-chairs.

FOLIO Community Blueprint

Simeon Warner

From https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AoCkHQ  everyone to review/comment on draft:

• Where do we want to take this?

• ACTION: Simeon Warner will move this topic to the next CC agenda - ADDED TO 2025-05-12 Community Council Meeting Minutes AGENDA

Nominations/elections committee

Joseph Grobelny Boaz Nadav Manes

Formed https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AoCkHQ  

Vision Statement Group

spampell Joseph Grobelny Shawn Nicholson Jesse Koennecke

Formed from DC meeting, draft for review shared at https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/LQDZNQ

Community support for FOLIO Infrastructure

Shawn Nicholson Christopher Spalding Mark Veksler Simeon Warner Mike Gorrell Kirstin Kemner-Heek

Formed based on https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/LQDZNQ to continue discussion about what infrastructure (and staffing) should be community supported, as opposed to a requirement for whoever supports a development team or such.

Line item contributions via hosting vendors

Johanna Radding Boaz Nadav Manes spampell Simeon Warner

Formed based on https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/LQDZNQ

Cultivating an active healthy software development contribution network

Mike Gorrell (lead), Boaz Nadav Manes spampell Christopher Spalding

From DC: Form group to create a vision for how to cultivate an active healthy software development contribution network: Mike (lead), Boaz, Stephen, Christopher

• First draft by April 28 CC meeting

Measuring what the community does and how much it costs

Jenn Colt (lead), Tom Cramer Shawn Nicholson Kathleen Berry

From DC: Develop approach to measure what the community does and how much it costs now - Tom, Jenn (lead), Shawn, Kat (fly on wall)

• Want to develop process for ongoing measurement

• Counting has implicit suggestion of what has value

Longer term contribution/membership/budget/community responsibility modeling

Christopher Spalding (lead), Kathleen Berry Simeon Warner Shawn Nicholson Mike Gorrell

From DC: Longer term contribution/membership/budget/community responsibility modeling - Christopher (lead), Kat, Simeon, Shawn, Mike

• Suggest P&L approach breaking down income streams and expense types for dev/maintenance/infra/etc/

• Christopher (with input from Mike) to do pre-work on costs - Christopher will invite Mike to a pre-meeting

• Start after April - Christopher will send out invite survey to pull together meeting to discuss MDG and CJS pre-work.