| Item | Who | Notes |
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| Intros | All | |
| Discuss RFP status | Micah | - Received a lot of questions from vendors
- Vendor responses due 1/15
- Hoping to see a LEAP Marketplace prototype by late 2016
- NYPL has drafted a financial model for viability of LEAP governing organization
- Available for us to review (possibly require an NDA? Maybe not for grant partners)
- Partners had questions about staffing, how long financial projections go, time until profitable
- Good discussion for Governance workstream to take up
- Micah addressed COSLA during ALAMW
- COSLA a good spot to look for potential partners; some members looking for ways to co-invest
- Utilize COSLA as a sounding board?
- Best Practices & Advocacy workstream can reach out here
- Discussion of where content for LEAP will be hosted
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DPLA role
in ebook conversations | Rachel | - DPLA received Sloan Foundation funding to explore ebook landscape and help develop national strategy
- Holding the space for stakeholders to come to the table and discuss
- Community conversations will inform LEAP but also other projects (like SimplyE for Consortia)
- Inviting people from outside the LEAP partners as well
- Will work with groups and organizations holding similar conversations like ReadersFirst, ASCLA, DCWG
- We are recruiting more voices; want people to feel open to joining the conversation
- White paper on our progress at the end of the year
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| Workstreams | Michelle | - See here for workstreams
- Will have co-chairs and members solidified by end of January
- Need 1-2 co-chairs to facilitate and 3-4 active group members to help with tasks
- These may change over time; ok to be flexible
- Partners want to make sure these conversations made available online to those who can't join us
- Listservs and open calls for workstreams? Larger groups?
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DPLAfest 2016 April 13-15 Washington DC | Michelle &
Rachel | - http://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2016/
- Next face to face meeting for LEAP
- Wednesday April 13 - day before the conference formally begins
- Will have a few hours for group and for individual workstreams
- We will have another ebook track this year but it won't be quite the intensive workshop that it was last year
- Hoping to add people outside our group to give updates on their work, i.e. Charlotte Initiative, Readers First
- Need to add notes and give updates for people who can't participate
- Please submit topics! Submissions due 1/22
- Registration is open
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