Creating a sustainable open-source repository community with Dataverse

Dataverse is an open-source repository software that has a community that has continued to grow over the last couple of years. With this community growth, challenges also appeared for the Dataverse community due to the variety of software deployments across countries, domains, and types of organizations, all having different needs and requirements. To try and find a sustainable way to keep growing while continuing to be a tight-knit community, the Dataverse Sustainability Working Group was established in the Fall of 20231. The mission of the working group is to provide evidence-based, community-reviewed, and consensus-based recommendations on how to sustain and grow the Dataverse community and how to ensure that the Dataverse software will continue to be maintained and developed in a way that benefits the user community as a whole in a long-term perspective in a sustainable way. During this lightning talk we would like to present the work we've done so far, from analyses and stakeholder consultation. The Open Repositories conference offers a timely opportunity to also get the outsider's perspective on these matters and challenges as well as exchange experiences from other communities that have gone or are going through the same process.