FW: Meeting recap

[Glenn Hampson]

Hi Folks,

 

A summary of yesterday’s summit meeting is below. Meeting attendees are currently kicking around a few follow-up ideas. Additional kicking is welcome, on- or off-list.

 

Best,

 

Glenn

 

 

Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
Science Communication Institute (SCI)
Program Director
Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)

 

 

From: Glenn Hampson <gham...@nationalscience.org>
Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 10:38 AM
To: 'Richard Gedye' <ric...@gedye.plus.com>; 'Mel DeSart' <des...@uw.edu>; 'Jo De' <dnn...@gmail.com>; 'Margaret Winker' <margare...@gmail.com>; 'Ilona Miko' <il...@mikoartscience.com>; 'Donald Samulack' <donald....@cactusglobal.com>
Subject: Meeting recap

 

Hi Team,

 

Thanks again for your time today. Let me know what you think of this recap:

 

Attending: Richard Gedeye, Mel DeSart, Joann Delenick, Margaret Winker, Ilona Miko, Donald Samulack, Glenn Hampson

 

Introduction: As per the revised action plan circulated last week (see attached file, “OSI-new-2020-plan.docx"), OSI can pursue three courses of action at present:

 

1.       Stay the course: Keep looking for major funding so that OSI can pursue the original action plan (see attached file, “OSI 2020-25 action plan.docx”)---involving studies, tech projects, and education/outreach programs costing at least $150k/yr.

2.       Course correction: Do what we can for now---collaboration, “free” efforts, more writing, more outreach, more promotion, support the UN’s work, publish OSI’s “Plan A”, follow the funding for specific projects, etc.---while continuing to search for major funding

3.       Quit: Publish Plan A as this group’s final recommendation and then close shop

 

Discussion: Which course of action does this group prefer? The consensus was strategy #2---to correct our course. Some of the specific ideas we discussed in conjunction with this strategy were to:

 

1.       Do a better job of promoting OSI:

a.       Make more appearances at industry events (like SSP), write a piece about “Plan A” for TSK or as a Nature editorial, do a better job of promoting OSI briefs and reports (and write more briefs and reports), etc.

b.       Rewrite and rename Plan A?---make it more digestible and immediately recognizable---maybe something along the lines of a “Vision for Creating a Collaborate Community in Scholarly Communication” (not necessarily a roadmap since our plan is not very specific).

2.       Continue to pursue funding

a.       Including a more effectively promoted crowdsource funding (from individuals instead of corporations)

b.       Including funding for issues instead of OSI

 

Action items:

 

1. Discuss and develop crowdsourcing idea (Glenn and Don)
2. Revise Plan A
1. After this, Glenn will reach out to TSK, Nature and others regarding submitting an article
3. Approach the company discussed regarding funding
4. Approach the conference organizers discussed about getting table space or some other sort of space (like a panel?)
5. Write more briefs and reports
6. Continue assisting UNESCO
7. Continue fundraising

 

Thank you again,

 

Glenn

 

 

Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
Science Communication Institute (SCI)
Program Director
Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)

 

 

[Bryan Alexander]

Thank you for the summary, Glenn.  And thank you all for the reflections.

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[Anthony Watkinson]

I had intended to join this meeting but when the time came round I had deadlines to deal with. Apologies

Here are some comments inline. Well not comments but encouragement.

It seems to me that strategy 2 does not cut out strategy 1.

The difficulty of inserting speakers into conferences is that OSI is not well known particularly outside the USA. I have probably failed to get a presentation into a major publishing meeting where I have some leverage although I did succeed with a major US library meeting. Yesterday I had lunch with a very prominent UK librarian who chairs an important European library grouping committed to OA and OS (as he is). He had never heard of OSI. I corrected him and will follow up.

 

Anthony

Anthony Watkinson

Principal Consultant CIBER Research

Honorary Lecturer University College London

Director Charleston Library Conference

 

 

 

Hi Team,

Thanks again for your time today. Let me know what you think of this recap:

Attending: Richard Gedeye, Mel DeSart, Joann Delenick, Margaret Winker, Ilona Miko, Donald Samulack, Glenn Hampson

Introduction: As per the revised action plan circulated last week (see attached file, “OSI-new-2020-plan.docx"), OSI can pursue three courses of action at present:

1.       Stay the course: Keep looking for major funding so that OSI can pursue the original action plan (see attached file, “OSI 2020-25 action plan.docx”)---involving studies, tech projects, and education/outreach programs costing at least $150k/yr.

2.       Course correction: Do what we can for now---collaboration, “free” efforts, more writing, more outreach, more promotion, support the UN’s work, publish OSI’s “Plan A”, follow the funding for specific projects, etc.---while continuing to search for major funding YES

3.       Quit: Publish Plan A as this group’s final recommendation and then close shop

Discussion: Which course of action does this group prefer? The consensus was strategy #2---to correct our course. Some of the specific ideas we discussed in conjunction with this strategy were to:

1.       Do a better job of promoting OSI: YES

a.       Make more appearances at industry events (like SSP), write a piece about “Plan A” for TSK or as a Nature editorial, do a better job of promoting OSI briefs and reports (and write more briefs and reports), etc. YES

b.       Rewrite and rename Plan A?---make it more digestible and immediately recognizable---maybe something along the lines of a “Vision for Creating a Collaborate Community in Scholarly Communication” (not necessarily a roadmap since our plan is not very specific).YES

2.       Continue to pursue funding YES

a.       Including a more effectively promoted crowdsource funding (from individuals instead of corporations) YES

b.       Including funding for issues instead of OSI

 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osi2016-25/CAJNuR2gzWTHt-SYFi_wgXaG0v6vMkuGExsm-fX76%2Bz3_7%2BUEvQ%40mail.gmail.com.