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Michele provided an update on the nominations to the LG

Have 6 nominations and open till end of next week and reminders will be sent

Will reach out to gold and platinum members for nominees

Seats open for elections by level:

• Bronze - 1 seat every 8 members (4 seats open)
• Silver - 1 seat every 4 members (2 seats open)
• Gold - 1 seat every 1 members (8 seats open)
• Platinum - 1 seat per member -  (4 seats open)
• + 2 from Community-at-Large

Tim congratulated team on preview release in May. Had positive feedback about the features.

• Been a huge effort that has gone into this. Have the largest release in DSpace history.
• Great contributions from 14 institutions. Code reviews and working groups, etc.
• Next preparation is for open repository
• Next: looking at estimations for beta from several developers point of view. There still may be bugs or performance issues. Will run organized sprints to get from preview to beta
• Gap between preview to beta should be shorter time frame
• Have done a lot of automated testing built in.

Cesar - Do you need help with translations from the wider community?

Tim - Already have some happening; trying to standardize the practice a bit more and then will get translators involved. Have a wiki page with some information, but will have further updates after open repositories meeting. https://duraspace.org/available-now-dspace-7-preview-release/

Here is the link to the document we used last year for the Steering nominations:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zjy-VCSaNAwWmShgt19rX-amVQOqqX-Pu2pFtKADCnM/edit?usp=sharing

Michele -

Every year a 1/3 of steering will rotate out. Leaders are elected for 1 year. Steering committee elected for 3 years. Having ongoing discussions on how to do structure and move forward.

Jyrki - Since the group was set up last year. Agreed that 3 would step down but didn’t make it clear who will step down. Salwa has moved to another organization. Pascal is also ready to step down. Don’t have a third person yet.

• Jyrki was chair for one year.
• Need a method to find the third person if nobody volunteers.
• Please send feedback if you have any ideas.

Michele - hoping that most members will be in Leadership group next year. Important to have continuity

• Leadership group will be nominated in July. This group will nominate members to Steering Comm.
• Steering meets a little more often - every other week; will have more opportunities to coordinate different WG and initiatives and report back to Leaders.
• There were some conversations about the conversations about the role of service providers in Steering Comm last year. May want to readdress this issue before election to Steering.
• Good opportunity to learn about how this group works.

Michele and Jyrki are available for consultation.

(DSpace/Google Scholar webinar and LA Referencia)

• Organizing a series of webinars in collaboration with Google Scholar. Goal to provide specific recommendations to configure Dspace indexing for other regions.
• Already run webinars for national nodes; in Brazil, Germany, Latin America and have been successful. To create user groups in each of these regions.
• Today going to run a 3^rd webinar in Argentina. They have created a user group to support collaboration.
• Next steps: Working in countries in India, Spain, Ukraine, Planning webinars and the creation of user group communities in all these countries.
• The coordinator from each group promote the webinars, run in their language, use the wiki as a resource for the community. They are well attended and run in the native language. Usually have more than a 100 people attending.
• Governance should monitor this growth and engaging with this communitythese community
• If you are interested in running a webinar or supporting the creation of a user group in your country let Michele know.
• The group in Latin American – quite similar to OpenAire/DSpace which has MOU. They are interested in this as well. They use similar standards as OpenAire. Met with them at COAR meeting. They want to be more involved in activities and technical aspects of DSpace 7
• Met with the President of the group and they would like a strategic partnership with DuraSpace, the technical side, etc. So, we might work with an MOU with then with the timeline of November when they will be having a meeting.