The name Samvera is an Icelandic term meaning 'togetherness'. Samvera is a grass-roots, open-source community of library and cultural heritage professionals, including repository managers, developers, metadata experts, content owners and users, working together to create best-in-class digital repository solutions. The Samvera Community is built around a core group of Partners committed to the success of the project and, more importantly, to the success of each other. The Community provides a set of open-source tools, and increasingly a collection of ready-to-run and hosted applications, to help institutions solve their digital repository needs in a sustainable way.