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2025-02-24 Community Council Meeting Minutes

2025-02-24 Community Council Meeting Minutes

 

Attendees

Guests:

Regrets:

Note Taker: @Rachael Kotarski

Discussion items

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Who

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Meeting schedule reminder

@Simeon Warner

Note taker for March ~10~ 3: Boaz Nadaz Manes has volunteered.

Governance Review - Proposed Update

@Simeon Warner @spampell

Review proposed revisions: https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/709754881/2024 FOLIO Governance Review - Clarficiations Proposal 2025-02-03.docx?api=v2

  • Proposed additional change to be explicit about abstentions:

    • From: Votes require a simple majority at a scheduled meeting where a quorum is present.

    • To: Votes require a simple majority of those voting (ie. not abstaining) at a scheduled meeting where a quorum is present.

  • This is a stumbling block, as we need to ensure there is still e.g. a majority of ‘yes’ votes. Abstentions still create quorum, but votes are neither de facto yes or no.

  • There are thanks from the group for refining the document and language.

  • Unlike other Councils we have no adopted asynchronous voting, or when to move to that. The bar is much highers, since that then requires an absolute majority of all council members.

  • Vote is called: Do we agree to the proposed edits, including the proposed additional text above to the CC FOLIO governance Model: Vote was carried with unanimous approval. It is now to be forwarded to the other councils.

Member information letter & distribution

@Joseph Grobelny @Shawn Nicholson

From 2025-02-10:

  • Can EBSCO and Index Data provide contacts or send a message on behalf of the community? Vendors need to be considerate of privacy of the individuals that may be contacted.

  • @Joseph Grobelny @Shawn Nicholson volunteers to draft the first letter.

  • Note there’s a members group that might be able to take this on too.

 

  • There is no activity at present, Shawn will schedule something for this week (WB Feb 24th 2025).

  • Outline of the plan is to send a letter to the community welcoming people to participate in anyway they can. There is an open quesitons on what the vedors are planning and how this fits with that approach.

  • This Draft MOU is to help develop some structure and ideas:

  • Only people who has previously enquired about membership will have seen this.

  • Shawn and Joseph will bring a draft back to the CC.

  • Boaz suggests a checklist when new organizations jointo try and encourage memberships at the beginning. Previous discussions on this failed due to lack of committement to resources: Onboarding Concept ;

  • Tom notes that it would be helpful to have this information on the FOLIO website.

In-Person meeting in DC March 18/19

@Christopher Spalding @Simeon Warner

  • Note re. possibility of govt. shutdown that would mean we could not meet at LC. Contact Christopher and Simeon if you have possible use of a suitable facility

  • Draft agenda:

  • Chris has made a first draft, based on ideas and goals previously generated as aims for the meeting. Allotted longer sessions to topics that likely need deeper discussion. Each goal to be noted in each section, and linked to any reading.

  • Do we still ned a discussion on Governance? Discussion may still be needed on whether governance is working. Document currently formalizes the status quo rather than creating change.

  • Research brief on open-source and governance ins in preparation. All documents will be linked once the agenda is finalized.

  • Section on financial planning and budget could be moved to the second day to be part of planning, but an element of this is sustainability, which links to membership.

  • Element of sustainbility also relates to cancellation of subscriptions by federal agencies, and how that impacts reearch vendors.

  • Kirstin suggests first day should be focussed on where FOLIO is going and the bigger, long-term picture.

  • There is a lot to get through for a day and a half: which of the goals can be dropped?

  • Market pressures etc in the light of DGE and Clarivate are also a relevant topic for the current goals.

  • Should be able to articulate current state and future state and how to close the gap.

  • There is a lot to cover: can folks share their thoughts on some topics before the meeting? This will help to make decisions in the meeting rather than debating.

  • How will this be refined? Is it for the chairs/officers of the councils to confirm?

  • Important to discuss where we want to go, before developing the plan of how we get there.

  • Proposal from Kirstin to discuss on Monday (March 3rd) to clear some of these: Simeon will post to Slack to confirm.

    • DONE, Slack notes CC availability for another meeting on March 3:

 

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