1. “Open source software is free like a puppy.” James Hilton, VP-CIO, U. of Virginia

2. Open-source software is inherently collaborative By definition, the code is in human-readable form Usually costs nothing up front The license may or may not restrict use and require changes to be given back Getting the features that you want requires some kind of participation Many are community organized, some are company owned

4. Committers groups create and manage the code A DuraSpace technical lead coordinates Community members are voted into the group Participants are made available by their institutions Each release has a community manager Any developers can offer enhancements Anyone can add a feature request to the list Committers vote to add features to the code

5. DuraSpace is the catalyst Provide freely downloadable software Coordinate the committers groups for the software projects Provide the communications infrastructure Organize other community groups to feed the process Organize research to move the durability mission forward

6. The Sponsorship Program Contributions from the community –Gold: $10,000 –Silver: $5,000 –Bronze: $2,500 Near to raising first year goal of $300,000 To provide 1/3 of operating budget To provide many supporters for the 501(c)(3) requirements

7. Registered Service Providers A formal relationship between DuraSpace and vendors DuraSpace provides referrals from their website and validates their reliability Work together on software enhancement, education and marketing Currently, 10 vendors participating

8. Grants for research Do not want to be fully dependent on grants Will pursue funding for research on software $4.9 million from the Moore Foundation gave the start $200,000 from Library of Congress helped DuraCloud do the pilots Looking for about 1/3 of budget from grants

9. The DuraCloud Service A hosted service providing cloud-based storage and compute DuraSpace has agreements with cloud providers Elastic pay-as-you go plan Phase two of the pilot program is underway now The goal is to provide about 1/3 of budget

10. http://www.duraspace.org