Islandora Leadership Group - Community Seat Nominations

[Noah Smith]

During the development of the Islandora Strategic Plan 2025-2028, there was a recognition that our Leadership Group needed to be more inclusive.  Given that as a goal, Islandora Foundation Member Benefits expanded to include additional Members of the Islandora Foundation and its governance bodies. Additional details are available in the Strategic Plan and the Revised Governance and Membership Model Proposal section of the plan. 

In addition to the "Member" seats on the revised Leadership Group, two additional "Community At Large" seats have been added. This form is for nomination for these seats: https://forms.gle/5frQLhhniKRpyeYh7

Self-nominations are welcome! 

The deadline for community nominees is November 8, 2024.

We will follow up with qualified nominees to ensure that they are interested, and send out a voting poll in this thread during the week following the deadline.

For the Islandora Foundation Board, ~Noah Smith

[Noah Smith]

Hello again,

Our nomination process is complete, and we do not need any elections- in no category did we have more nominations than seats. Here is our group for 2024/2025, with terms running through next year’s AGM:

• Partners:
  • McMaster - Mark Pellegrino
  • Born-Digital - Sarah Goldstein
  • UPEI - Donald Moses
  • DiscoveryGarden - TBD
• Collaborators
  • FLVC - Rebel Cummings-Sauls
  • BCELN - Brandon Weigel
  • U Iowa - Natalie Bauer
  • York U - TBD
• Supporters
  • UNLV - Manish Kumar
• Adopters
  • Whitman College - Amy Blau
• IRIG
  • JHU - Don Richards
• LAC-GLAM
  • TriCollege Consortium - Emily Higgs Kopin
• Code of Conduct Committee
  • <seat held open, temporarily liaison will be Amy Blau>
• Documentation Interest Group
  • Berklee College - Yamil Suarez
• Technical Advisory Group
  • Northern Illinois University - Annie Oelschlager
• Metadata Interest Group
  • DiscoveryGarden - Chris Day
• Board
  • Born-Digital - Noah Smith
  • Vassar College - Nicole Scalessa
• Community Seats
  • <no nominations; held open, so please reach out if you have interest>

Sarah and Nicole have offered to co-lead this new group this year, and will be in touch shortly regarding scheduling an initial meeting. Thank you to everyone who participated in nominations, and to all the folks who have accepted their nominations to the new Leadership Group!

We have also finalized the job description for hiring and will post the staff position in the next few days.

All the best, ~Noah