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**Please distribute widely** | **Apologies for cross-posting** The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to share our reflections on a community consultation process that saw us receive feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, including scholarly communications experts and past, present, and potential users of PKP software and services. The community consultation was led by the consulting firm BlueSky to BluePrint, with its principal, Nancy Maron, with the support of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The attached report (available at the URL below), presents both the opportunities and challenges that PKP faces as an academic-led project trying to bring open source and community-based solutions for scholarly communications and open access. It also outlines the actions that PKP intends to take as it continues to operate in three main areas: 1. Open Source Software; 2. Research, education and advocacy; and 3. PKP Publishing Services. As the attached report explains, PKP is committed to bringing its activities in these areas together in ways that reinforce each other and are philosophically coherent and consistent with the principles that underlie the open access community. As we conclude this planning phase, PKP welcomes feedback in the form of online annotations (on the report itself <https://pkp.sfu.ca/files/arnoldstudyreport2018/viewer/web/pkpviewer.html?file=%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2FPKPReflectionsAndDirections2018.pdf#page=1>), public comments (on this page <https://pkp.sfu.ca/reflections-and-directions-2018/>), or via private feedback (on this form <https://pkp.sfu.ca/feedback/>). Your comments will ensure PKP has the best possible plan to carry it into its third decade. The report and links can all be found here: https://pkp.sfu.ca/reflections-and-directions-2018/ BlueSky to BluePrint's report can be found here: https://pkp.sfu.ca/findings-from-community-consultation-2018 -- Kevin Stranack, MLIS, MAEd Head, Digital Publishing & Associate Director, Community Engagement & Learning at the Public Knowledge Project Simon Fraser University Library Twitter: @stranack Skype: kstranack