2022-01-10 Meeting notes

NOTE: This meeting is an internal CC meeting - no non-CC members will be in attendance.

Attendees

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
10 minFiscal budgeting details and status, including AWS costs and staffing costs/projections
  • Excel sheet about resources: document in Google folder of Community Council
    • Aditya left the project: extra amount can be kept by FOLIO (from hbz)
    • Documentation: Marsha was funded by Leipzig:  funds / invoices are in balance - EBSCO takes over the funding for another few month in part-time to move the work over to others (Dracine: there are SIG reps who can take over and are trained together with the "Google season of Docs" people)
    • Member fees: all payed except a few smaller amounts
    • 1 developer can be continously funded until June 2022  - 1 developer left early
    • Simeon: Did you already discuss the fairly rapid upward trajectory of AWS costs?
      • Yes. One time saving due to a credit grand 
      • Ian provides additional information about some requirements to use the AWS grant
      • AWS funding  is secured in 2022
    • Test Rail: needs clarification
    • OCLC cataloguing costs: Mike G. will share the contract (was payed by EBSCO in the past)
    • Fiscal year 2022/23: maybe only income are member fees → needed for AWS - Mike G. will reach out to TC 
    • Please reach out to Paula for more questions
    • Cost overview: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzUdxYTMAI83SUsL9SRqxQ1UtBwYG4Qf/edit#gid=195382836  (restricted access)


50 min

 Community Council Internal Retrospective

 Use this document to guide the retrospective discussion

  • Introduction of the retrospective idea 
  • Added input:
    • How do we measure our actions? Do we collect some statistical numbers?
    • Membership and a bit of charity are our project base → is this sustainable?  How to improve that?
    • Which topics remained open?
    • It's all about resources!  What do we need for sustainability in scope and qualification? 
  • Discussion and results in the document named above
  • Mike will wrap up and come back to CC to continue this discussion in a future meeting with defined next actions to be taken up.