Consortium Update

June 5-7, 2018

iRODS User Group Meeting 2018

Durham, NC

Jason M. Coposky

@jason_coposky

Executive Director, iRODS Consortium

Consortium Update

The iRODS Consortium

Our Mission

• Write Good Software
• Grow the Community
• Show value to our Membership

The Business Model

Start with proof of concept

• Hands on
• Service and Support Contract

Consortium Membership

• Four Levels - $10k to $150k
• 10 to 300 hours of support
• Participation in Software Road map
• Discounted hourly rate

Tier 3 Support

• Systems Integrators
• Compute Vendors
• Storage Vendors

2017-2018 Activity

• 6 New Members
• 4 Service Contracts
• 12+ Proofs of Concept
• 4 Training Events
• 5 New Hires
• Joined OpenSFS Consortium

2017-2018 Activity

• Metadata Templates Working Group
• Metalnx Working Group
• File System Integration Working Group
• 10 External code contributors

• 70 new iRODS-Chat members
• 75 new Twitter followers

New Members

Our Membership

What am I missing?

• Questions?
• Comments?
• Criticisms?
• Complaints?