Friday July 19 

Breakout session 2, 11:45- 1:00pm

Session name:  Zine Union Catalog- Yak

Facilitator: Lauren, Jenna

Note taker: Ella

CUNY GC ZUC updates – Lauren

• 5 minute history of the zine union catalog
• Fall semester – annotation play with catalog and collective access
• Independent Study – focused on project management and identifying 
• Open Leaders

CUNY GC capstone – Jenna

Plan hack – Eric

Oreos

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History:

• 2009 the conversation begins
• How/platform/what
• 2013 – xZinecorex metadata standard
• CUNY graduate program work
• Collective Access (CA) platform
• ABCNoRIo, Qzap, Barnard, Carnegie, Sallie Bingham others represented in prototype
• Still tinkering with prototype as time allows (zinecat.org)
• Time to push to build the ZineCat out
• Lauren researching what needs to happen to take next steps, project management (GitHub?), connect to Free and Open Internet initiatives, outreach opportunities

Capstone:

• $1000 grant money – hack in NY in October
  • original ask was 2 day CA workshop (more $$$)

Priorities for the last year of concentrated action on ZineCat:

• Building the cat
• Funding
  • Hosting
    • Openflow hack can pay for a year of server
  • GitHub add-ons
  • traditional cooperative model?
    • equal and fair share funding
    • equal voice is critical
    • dependencies on large contributors are problematic
    • Labor vs. money
  • What budget do we need?
    • Pay for someone to ingest
    • hosting costs
    • come up with a 5-year budget
• Project Management
  • GitHub https://github.com/lsrkthelibrarian/zinecat.org 
    • Can we do not just tech with the platform? how to introduce people to that
      • Communication to clarify the use and powers of the platform
      • Documentation
        • Draft of a readme (lauren)
    • Even experienced developers have a hard time doing anything but submitting code on GitHub
      • GitLab, ZenBench – adding on top of the platform an interface for discussion (none of which are free – charge per person per month)
        • Lab.citycrm.org
      • Other interfaces could still be hosted/paid – maybe better fee structures for our purposes?
• Community Engagement, 
• Universal Design, 
• accessibility, 
• governance structure/shared decision making
  • where are we at with this? is this work useful?
    • Mostly Jenna and Lauren up to now – looking to generate more community involvement
      • Deciding on governance structure would be hugely useful
    • Pilot governance determined at ZLUC 2018 – should we just put this forward?
    • “Y’all who have been doing this work – go ahead, we trust you” (the community, via Milo)
  • Hosted on a server paid for by CUNY grad program which will expire
    • Need to find another university host
      • Lack of trust in a university as hosting entity
    • Or simply pay for something (Qzap model)
      • Different types of institutions are sharing information, so let’s not prioritize one source/contributor over another

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• Round of sharing our thoughts/feelings/ideas/etc or pass:
  • Choices are mostly unstable in regards to funding streams.  Come up with five year budgets (a few options: minimal, viable, thriving etc.) Help us set priorities 
  • Big picture:
    • Budget development mentorship possibilities
    • intentionality about skill-building
  • How do we write documentation to get more stakeholder investment
    • clear writing
    • map for future work
  • What would it look like if we didn’t have to have this funding discussion
    • More open ideation, let’s not get stuck in the budget
  • Infrastructure, tools, budget
    • Seminar to make money for the project – turn our skill building into an income stream
  • Keep discussions ongoing between now and the next unconference, keeping input and commitment coming in
  • Institution buy in without more power
    • one-time sponsorship vs co-op share
    • being able to say “yeah, we’ll take your money” to large/moneyed groups
  • Lurker perspective, data-supplier
    • stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (endowed? foundation funding? some sustainable income stream)
  • Creating a zine library foundation, building out an endowment model
    • • inherently hierarchical governance structures, how to get past that
        • ABCNoRio as an example to investigate
    • ZineCat
    • ZLUC
    • More events and projects
    • Nonprofit umbrella for small zine libraries
  • Wikidata for zinelibraries (Honor attending Wikimania)
    • current and historical

Hack talk

• GitHub
  • Lauren will clone to ZineCat
  • get accounts (lauren to set up)
    • Personal setup
    • Then, access granted
  • Getting data from Milo’s, Jenna’s, Lauren’s
    • Harmonize
  • Proofing front-matter
  • this all will set us up for communication post-zluc
• Data cleaning/metadata mapping
  • get some data, start cleaning
• Budget brainstorm
• Governance