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2025-12-08 Community Council Meeting Minutes

2025-12-08 Community Council Meeting Minutes

Attendees: @Tom Cramer @Johanna Radding @Stephen Short @Rachael Kotarski @Vanessa French @Karen Elena Jara Maricic @Shawn Nicholson @Peter Murray Stephen Pampell @Kemner-Heek, Kirstin @Kristin Martin @Maccabee Levine @Petra Schneider @Martina Schildt

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Note taker for today: @Johanna Radding
Note taker for next meeting: 1/12/2026 @Rachael Kotarski

Cancelling 12/22/2025

Apache 2 and LGPL 2.1 license compatibility continued

Tom

Request for legal attention submitted OLF Executive Team and OLF Board of Directors. EBSCO has volunteered in house legal counsel to look at the matter first.

Open items for Councils from WOLFcon – any updates?

 

Action Items from Tri-Council Meeting at WOLFcon for follow up:

  1. Work on visibility of development requests / DIP proposal (PC)

    1. Subgroup specifically to work on the DIP process

    2. Charters submitted to PC

    3. Hopefully work will officially begin in the new year.

  2. Create updated list of FOLIO modules with maintenance status (including orphaned apps) (PC).

    1. Still figuring out in PC. Talk of a survey with help of Implementers SIG

  1. Develop dashboard for tracking Jira points and cost metrics. (TC)

    1. Feedback from POs, incorporating feedback into community priorities dashboard

  2. “Counting things” follow up from DC Summit (spring 2025) - (Jenn, Shawn, Tom C)

    1. Jenn convened subgroup that will meet Dec 19, 2025, more to report after this

  1. Investigate Koha Model for community-driven development and maintenance (Lisa, Jenn, Tom T., Harry)

  1. Examine and better define Membership Value to inform a membership drive (CC)

    1. Development priority influence

      1. Overlap with DIP and software marketplace, will need to co-evolve and come to fruition next year

      2. currently work in OLF to have directory of applications (similar to Atlassian’s for plug ins), this could serve as a public sign post for adoption and support - more news on this in January

        1. Invite appropriate stakeholders in January to CC to present on the work that has been done

    2. Network expertise

    3. Training

      1. Paul & Petra - Rescheduling meeting to discuss

  1. AWS working group to draft cost sharing design and investigate feasibility of distributed hosting (in kind contributions of hosting env.) (Stephen, Peter, Wayne, Shawn, Mark V. and/or Yogesh)
    we hope to have something for the Tri-Council meeting in January.

    1. Progressing

  2. Line Item Contributions – engage with EBSCO (Paul, Tom)

    1. End of calendar year aspiration has lost some momentum

    2. One of the big things that came out of the DC summit that seemed promising, will have a better sense by end of the week if this will progress, complicated for EBSCO to consider

Next Tri-Council Meeting

@Paul Kloppenborg @Tom Cramer

Chairs meeting later today; will be looking at 2nd, 3rd, or 4th week in January. Jan 12 or 26 if CC time slot is used. Jan 12 is a little too soon after the winter/holiday breaks. PC time slot Thurs Jan 22 would be a good date if PC is willing to forgo the timeslot.

Tentative Jan 22, will confirm with PC. No conflict with TC members.