NDSA:Who we Might Want to Invite to Comment

Who do we want to invite to comment on our key factor's and questions once we have them. Ideally identify who they are, why you think they are interesting, and your name if you are willing to contact them.

1. Edward Corrado: Head of Library Technology at Binghamton University: He has been very active in OSS development in the library community and was involved in the FOSS4Lib work.
2. Bram van der werf: From the Open Planet's Foundation.
3. Someone From DuraSpace: They have been going at this for a good while, they are in our community and I think it would benefit us all to have them well represented in this project. -Trevor KC: might want to have this talk about Fedora/DSpace and how the two got off the ground and then eventually decided to merge.
4. Someone From CHNM (Sharon Leon, Tom Scheinfeldt: Omeka and Zotero are both rather robust open source projects, they also run a fair amount of OSS to support a range of projects, (Drupal, WordPress) -Trevor
5. Someone from WordPress (I know a few core devs), very successful project with a large community. -Trevor
6. Collective Access Seth ? - Karen - I can track down his last name His company Whirlagig gets paid to develop software but then releases it as open source as part of his paid agreement. He feels he can support himself with services around the tools he builds and releases it as open will increase users.
7. Someone from Blacklight or Hydra project at Stanford (Tom Cramer) or Variations on Video at Indiana Univ (John Dunn) or both - Karen They are building large enterprise preservation systems for university libraries....I want to know why not buy something off the shelf?
8. Peter Van Garderen, of Artefactual http://artefactual.com/team
9. Mark A. Matienzo, Tech Architect on ArchivesSpace
10. Someone from NASA's Open Code http://open.nasa.gov/blog/tag/code/ or http://open.nasa.gov/blog/2011/09/08/open-source-development-at-nasa/
11. Someone from Document Cloud: http://www.documentcloud.org/about
12. Josh Greenburg, director of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Digital Information Technology program
13. David Rosenthal - LOCKSS and all that
14. Cliff Lynch - likely to have many words of wisdom given his knowledge about so many different products and projects over the years

From John Spencer -

Do you want any commercial service providers to be a part of this, or only non-profit organizations? From Trevor: Yes, I think commercial ventures would be welcome in this mix, as long as they have some particular background and perspective on the use or potential use of open source systems.