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- Provide leadership and set the strategic direction for DSpace software.
- Make decisions around allocation of all DSpace revenue (from membership fees, grants, etc)
- Present key decisions to the DSpace Leadership Group.
Meeting Frequency: Monthly phone meetings
Group Participants (6-15 individuals):
- Steering Group members participants have a set term limit (more info coming soon2 years?), and are elected by the DSpace Leadership Group.
- Any DSpace Member or Registered Service Provider may be elected to the Steering Group
- Ex-officio:
- Chair of DSpace Product Planning Group (DSpace Product Manager)
- Chair of DSpace Technology Technology Advisory Group (DSpace Technical Lead)
- Chair of DSpace Community Advisory Team
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DSpace Leadership Group
The DSpace Leadership Group provides feedback to the Steering Group on strategic direction. While they are not directly involved in the day-to-day activities of the platform, they do have the opportunity to vote on key decisions or proposals.
The Leadership Group elects members of the Steering Group from the DSpace Membership.
Primary Responsibilities:
- The Leadership Group votes on key decisions or proposals from presented by the DSpace Steering Group.
- The Leadership Group elects new Members to the Steering Group.They are not active in day-to-day DSpace activities. However, the Leadership Group meets at least once per year during the DuraSpace Summit meeting (other virtual meetings may be scheduled on an as-needed basis)
Meeting Frequency: Annually at DuraSpace Summit (March). Up to 3 other phone calls per year, based on whether there are key decisions or proposals to review.
Group Participants:
- The Leadership Group is a subset of the overall DSpace Members, selected based on their level of contribution to DSpace.
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- All DSpace Platinum ($20K to DSpace) and Gold ($10K to DSpace) members are automatically participants in the Leadership Group
- 6 total participants are elected from all DSpace Silver ($5K to DSpace) and Bronze ($2.5K to DSpace) members
- 1 participant is elected from Discounted Bronze members ($250 discounted membership for economies in transition and developing economies, as decided by the United Nation's World Economic Situation and Prospects report)
- Nominations for elections are made by DuraSpace
- Non-DSpace Members may also sit on the Leadership Group by invitation only.
DSpace Members
Primary Responsibilities:
- Members are not directly involved with decisions regarding the DSpace platform. However, they may provide their feedback via member-directed surveys or similar.
- Any Member may be nominated and elected to the DSpace Steering Group. However only the Leadership Group can vote on nominations.
- As Members are providing funding to DSpace, their use cases and feature requests may be prioritized over non-Member institutions.
Meeting Frequency: This group does not have official meetings. However, they are invited to attend the DuraSpace Summit (March).
Group Participants:
- Any institution which has chosen to become a Member of DuraSpace and has targeted at least a portion of their membership dues towards DSpace.
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Permanent Working Groups / Teams
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The DSpace Product Planning Group develops and maintains the DSpace Product Plan in conjunction with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) and the Technology Technology Advisory Group.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Once per year: Create / Refresh the DSpace Product Plan / Product Roadmap and present to Steering Group for approval (Yearly activity)
- Every three years: Refresh High Level Vision for DSpace (in conjunction with DCAT and Technology Planning Advisory Group)
Meeting Frequency: Monthly? (Perhaps a few times a month during detailed planning phases)
Group Participants (4-8 individuals)
- Chair: DSpace Product Manager (once hired)
- Interim Chair: DSpace Tech Lead?
- Ex-officio:
- Chair of DSpace Technology Technology Advisory Group (DSpace Tech Lead)
- Chair of DSpace Community Advisory Team
- Members Participants are selected from and by the DSpace Community Advisory Team and DSpace Technology Technology Advisory Group.
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- Nominations may be made to the Chair of the respective group. As needed, each group may choose to hold elections.
- Ideally, participants should be from various backgrounds in order to ensure diverse representation (larger vs small institutions, from various countries around the world).
DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT)
The DSpace Community Advisory Team is made up of community repository managers. DCAT plays a user advisory role with Committers, Steering Group and Technology Technology Advisory Group. They also help to gather and maintain a list of common use cases from the members (and wider community). These use cases help to inform the Product Plan.
The DCAT chair is an elected member of the community.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Advisory role to Committers, Steering Committee and Technology Advisory Group on topics related to repository management and use cases
Meeting Frequency: Monthly
Group Participants (no limit on number of participants):
- DCAT is primarily made up of individuals in the "Repository Manager" role at their insitution
- Anyone in the community may choose to join DCAT?
More details coming soon. Official charge is being drafted by the existing DCAT group.
DSpace Technology Advisory Group
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The DSpace Technology Advisory Group advises all groups on anything related to technology.
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DSpace technology and architectural decisions. They help to research and/or prototype various implementation options, and recommend the "best of class" for implementation.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Once per year: Refresh the Implementation Plan / Technical Roadmap for upcoming release(s) based on Product Plan
- Work with the Committers group to schedule & plan upcoming releases based on roadmapTechnical Roadmap
- Advise on technical implementation/architecture options based on prioritized use cases (from DCAT) and/or the proposed product plan (from Product Planning Group).
- Help lead or organize the analysis, researching and/or prototyping of specific technical implementation options (in order to provide input/advice to Product Planning Group and Steering Group on available optionspaths forward).
- As needed, In some cases, participants may help lead or organize implementation teams (of Committers and/or donated developers) to implement add specific features into DSpace
Meeting Frequency: Monthly? (Perhaps a few times a month during detailed analysis phases)
Group Participants (4-8 individuals):
- Chair: DSpace Technical Lead
- Members Participants are selected from the Committers group by the Technical Lead and the Committers. Members should have some time dedicated to Technology Planning from their workplace (amount TBD).
- Community Contributors (non-Committers) may be selected to this group by a vote of the Committers.
More details coming soon.
DSpace Committers
DSpace Committers have primary control over the code and is also the primary support team for DSpace. They are a meritocracy (members are added from the community based on merit).
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- Maintain the codebase. They are the only individuals who can actively change/commit to the codebase
- Review all code contributions/changes to ensure stability, etc (see Code Contribution Guidelines). They are the only individuals who can merge/accept community code contributions.
- Help to resolve bugs or security issues within codebase
- Help to provide ongoing support to community developers and users (via IRC, mailing lists, etc.)
- Perform and manage new releases based on the Implementation Plan / Technical Roadmap (from the Technology Technology Advisory Group).
Meeting Frequency: Weekly
Group Participants (no limit on number of participants):
- Chair: DSpace Technical Lead
- The Committers group is a meritocracy.
- Anyone can may nominate someone for Committership. Anyone can may be nominated as a Committer.
- Only existing Committers may vote to add a nominated person to the Committers group.
- For more information see Committer Nominations.
More details coming soon.
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