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    1. Report – Developer Updates (Dragan) - news from technical folks is: The VIVO 1.14.2 patch has been recently released – SEE https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/VIVO+1.14.2+Release+Announcement

    2. Report - Rio and Costa Rica Meetings (Mic)

      Rio: On March 18-20 the Lyrasis Board met in Rio de Janeiro with representatives from over 20 Latin American countries. It was a meeting co-organized with LA Referencia.

      The meeting was about the role and support of Open Source technologies in Latin America. Over 90% of the Latin American Academic Institutions are using DSpace as their Institutional repository and VIVO adoption in the Region is growing very fast.

      A sub-committee was created after the meeting to explore options to better support the Region from a technological point of you and, at the same time, to create a way for them to support the software they use (financially and technically).

      Costa Rica: On May 10 there was the launch of the new VIVO Site of the National University of Technology (https://comunidad.utn.ac.cr/). There were meetings with all the other universities in Costa Rica, the National Open Science Agency, the Research Managers of the Ministry of Education and Research where I had the opportunity to present VIVO, the value of open source software to manage research information. Other institutions are thinking to adopt VIVO at the institutional, national and regional level. We’ll now need to work on transforming the users into members.

    3. Barcelona Declaration: Per Per prior meeting and agenda item by by Christian: LG members can continue to familiarize themselves in the coming month with https://barcelona-declaration.org/downloads/BarcelonaDeclaration.pdf on their own time. For May LG meeting we can include discussion and vote in support of VIVO formally supporting the Barcelona Declaration, with possible inclusion of VIVO as a signatory under “Other organizations” at https://barcelona-declaration.org/signatories/. (Signatories are organized as universities and other research performing organizations; research funding organizations and governments; and other organizations (we would fit under the latter).

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