Submitted for your consideration---here are detailed notes for what we’ll be discussing on Monday’s call
OSI’s 2020 action plan
Our original plan (for studies, tech products and outreach) was premised on receiving about $150k/yr of funding over the next three years from the Murdock foundation. Our grant application was declined, however. What now? Here are a few options for consideration (this list isn’t exhaustive, nor are these options necessarily mutually exclusive):
i. At the moment, the only funders with a major ask pending from OSI are UNESCO, Sloan, NSF (not SciSiP but another NSF program geared more toward “big idea” grants), and commercial entity.
ii. A minimum of $150k annually is needed to be able to start moving our action plan forward, as currently articulated.
i. Financially, what is our minimum need?
ii. Drop or scale back plans to conduct studies and build tech projects
iii. Follow the money---work on projects we can find money for
iv. Focus only on things we can accomplish for “free” (after covering program director’s salary only) such as:
v. Change our funding model
i. Publish Plan A as a final set of recommendations and then either go into hibernation until funding arrives, or disband altogether.
Could you send joining instructions again Glenn?
--
As a public and publicly-funded effort, the conversations on this list can be viewed by the public and are archived. To read this group's complete listserv policy (including disclaimer and reuse information), please visit http://osinitiative.org/osi-listservs.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Open Scholarship Initiative" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osi2016-25+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osi2016-25/001b01d5abdb%2474532050%245cf960f0%24%40nationalscience.org.