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• 1. Tentative plans for a DSpace 7 Online Workshop the week of November 14.  (Loosely based on "Getting Started with DSpace 7" workshop held for OR2021)
     1. Possible workshops (Spread across 3 days. Each session may be ~60min of content & 30min of questions)
        1. Session 1 - (Audience: people using DSpace) 7.4 updates & Using DSpace (Repo mgrs is audience)
           1. Tim & Melissa? 
        2. Session 2 - (Audience: people setting up a DSpace) branding Angular UI + backend configuration (light customizations / configuration - simple changes).  Higher level install/upgrade tips.
           1. Tim? & Corrado
        3. Session 3 - (Audience: people developing on DSpace) Development / Integrations (Angular or REST).  Theme support.  How to use the REST API & REST API best practices. 2hrs?
           1. Should be an introduction to DSpace development (not a deep dive).  Perhaps similar Angular & REST content to "Getting Started with DSpace 7" workshop held for OR2021
           2. Andrea & Art (Art will be back from holiday on Nov 15. This session should be on 17th or 18th)
  2. Discussing Configurable Entity plans/scope for 7.x (per last week's brief discussion)
     1. The current "out of the box" Entities in v7 are examples of common use cases we're aware of for Configurable Entities. They are surely not the only use cases.
     2. We anticipate that Steering / Leadership will also need to weigh in on any future Entities added to DSpace, especially based on the Strategic Plan for DSpace v8 and beyond.  Entities are likely to play a larger role in the future.
     3. Based on that, what do we feel should be the limitations/goals of Entities in the 7.x series of releases?  Already we have one suggestion for a new Entity type to add (COAR "Resource Type"): https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1645 .  There will definitely be others.
        1. One option might be to say we will not add any new Entities to 7.x. New Entities will next come in 8.x
        2. Another option is to allow for limited new Entities in 7.x, provided there is a clear need / use case (and with feedback from Steering?)
• (30 mins) Planning for next week
  • Review the Backlog Board - Are there any tickets here stuck in the "Triage" column?  We'd like to keep this column as small as possible.
  • Review the 7.4 Project Board - Assign tickets to developers & assign PRs to reviewers.
    • Paid (by DSpace project) developers must keep in mind priority. If new "high" or "medium" priority tickets come in, developers should move effort off of "low" priority tasks.
    • Volunteer developers are allowed to work on tickets regardless of priority, but ideally will review code in priority order

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