Consortium Update

Jason M. Coposky

@jason_coposky

Executive Director, iRODS Consortium

Consortium Update

June 25-28, 2019

iRODS User Group Meeting

University of Utrecht, NL

The iRODS Consortium

Our Mission

• Continuous Improvement
• Grow the Community
• Standardization
• Show value to our Membership

2018-2019 Activity

• 14 Membership Renewals
• 9 New Members
• 1 Hosting Renewal
• 6 New Service Contracts
• Many Proofs of Concept
• User Training
• 13+ Conferences and Events

2018-2019 New Membership

• Agriculture Victoria
• APTIV Services Poland S.A.
• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Cloudian
• Guardant Health
• Maastricht University
• SUSE
• Texas Advanced Computing Center
• UC Boulder

2018-2019 Activity

• Metadata Templates Working Group
• Metalnx Working Group
• File System Integration Working Group
• 10 or more external code contributors

• 48 new iRODS-Chat members
• 44 new Twitter followers

Our Membership (several logos not included)

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

What am I missing?

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