The Samvera Community joins the Apereo Foundation

The Samvera Community is excited to announce our new fiscal sponsor, the Apereo Foundation. The Apereo Foundation is a global nonprofit organization with over 25 years of experience advocating for open source software in higher education. They share our commitment to open, community-governed, and sustainable software communities. 

The Samvera Community made this change with the full support of Samvera Partners as well as our previous fiscal sponsor, OASIS Open. This new sponsorship arrangement minimizes and simplifies our community overhead costs, ensuring we are maximizing the return on every dollar of contribution to the community.  Apereo will also provide new ways to engage with a broader community of academic open infrastructure.

Apereo is equally excited to learn from our community and the library open source ecosystem. You can read their full welcome message on the Apereo website. 

The Samvera Community will continue to have the same governance structure, including an elected Board. The Community Bylaws will soon be updated to reflect the new fiscal sponsor and the changes will be voted on by Samvera Partners.

OASIS Open has been an invaluable resource to the Samvera Community and their support over the past five years has strengthened our governance and operations. We look forward to an equally cooperative relationship with the Apereo Foundation.

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