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 Officer

1. Sustaining OS projects to
products
Michele Kimpton
OpenAire conference
11/5/2013

2. DuraSpace

3. How is DuraSpace
organized?
Funded through
sponsorship,grants,RSP
program
Funded through service
revenue and grants
DuraSpace
Projects
DSpace
Fedora
Services
Vivo
DuraCloud
Education
Dspacedirect

4. DuraSpace Stewardship
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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

5. What makes a project
sustainable?
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Adequate resources to do the work
Engaged stakeholders
Transparent governance
Shared common need
Broad and diverse community of
users

6. Transition from Grant or
project funding
sponsorship;
14%
services; 2%
sponsorship;
38%
grants; 84%
grants; 41%
services;
21%
2010
2012
grants; 25%
sponsorship;
57%
2013
services;
18%

7. Financial resources through
sponsorship

8. Contributions in kind
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Committers
Testers
Documentation
Working groups
Developers
Regional training and advocacy

9. Engaged and empowered
stakeholders
Our Communities “own” our projects.
Transparency and democratic process
Broad and diverse when possible

10. Diversified community
geographically
4% 1%
4%
7%
26%
North America
Western Europe
Asia
10%
South America
Eastern Europe
Australia/New Zealand
Africa
23%
25%
Middle East
Continued adoption around the world, particularly developing Countries

11. Fedora project governance
Community of users
Technical
contributors
Project
Sponsors
Committer
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Sponsor Advisory committee
Mgt Steering committee
Project team
Tech working
group
Fundraising
working group
Governance
working group

12. VIVO project governance

13. …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

14. Thank you
Michele Kimpton
mkimpton@duraspace.org