4th openaire workshop michele kimpton
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4th OpenAIRE Workshop - Legal and Sustainability Issues for Open Access Infrastructures Nov. Vilnius Perspectives, Ideas, success and challenges of sustainability models DuraSpace - Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive OfficerTRANSCRIPT
Sustaining OS projects to products
Michele Kimpton
OpenAire conference
11/5/2013
DuraSpace
How is DuraSpace organized?
DuraSpace
Projects
DSpace Fedora Vivo
Services
DuraCloud Education Dspacedirect
Funded through sponsorship,grants,RSP
program
Funded through service revenue and grants
DuraSpace Stewardship
• Executive leadership; strategic planning
• Community programs and awareness
• Fundraising
• Technical lead and Product Manager
• Marketing and communications
• Partnerships
• Legal home for Software
• Infrastructure
• Administrative and financial services
What makes a project sustainable?
• Adequate resources to do the work
• Engaged stakeholders
• Transparent governance
• Shared common need
• Broad and diverse community of users
Transition from Grant or project funding
grants; 25%
services; 18%
sponsorship;
57%
grants; 41%
services;
21%
sponsorship;
38% grants; 84%
services; 2%
sponsorship;
14%
2010 2012
2013
Financial resources through sponsorship
Contributions in kind
• Committers
• Testers
• Documentation
• Working groups
• Developers
• Regional training and advocacy
Engaged and empowered stakeholders
Our Communities “own” our projects.
Transparency and democratic process
Broad and diverse when possible
Diversified community geographically
Continued adoption around the world, particularly developing Countries
26%
25% 23%
10%
7%
4%
4% 1%
North America
Western Europe
Asia
South America
Eastern Europe
Australia/New Zealand
Africa
Middle East
Fedora project governance
Community of users
Sponsor Advisory committee
Mgt Steering committee
Project team
Technical contributors
Project Sponsors
Committers
Tech working group
Fundraising working group
Governance working group
VIVO project governance
…words of advice • Engage your stakeholders through
participation and governance
• Ensure your project meets the needs of your stakeholders
• Develop project champions beyond the initial creator
• Focus on sustainability early in the project before you run out of funding
• Share the work by creating a broad, diverse community of users