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Primary Responsibilities:
Approves priorities and strategic direction (as presented by Steering Group)
Approves annual budget allocation decisions
Approves strategic product roadmap decisions
Approves strategic community direction decisions
Nominates and elects Steering Group members
Votes on key decisions presented by the Steering Group
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.
Any institutional member that contributes at least $10K annually to DSpace is guaranteed one seat on the Leadership Group
Any institutional member that contributes at least 0.5 FTE in-kind developers to DSpace is guaranteed one seat on the Leadership Group
4 participants are elected from all institutions that contribute at least $5K annually to DSpace.
2 participants are elected from all institutions that contribute at least $2.5K annually to DSpace
1 participant is elected from all institutions that contribute at a discounted Bronze level ($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
DSpace
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DSpace Project 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 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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- Chair: DSpace Product Manager (once hired)
- Interim Chair: DSpace Tech Lead?
- Ex-officio:
- Chair of DSpace Technology Advisory Group (DSpace Tech Lead)
- Chair of DSpace Community Advisory Team
- Participants are selected from and by the DSpace Community Advisory Team and DSpace Technology Advisory Group.
- Ideally, participants should be from various backgrounds in order to ensure diverse representation (larger vs small institutions, from various countries around the world).
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Primary Responsibilities:
Advisory role to Committers, Steering Committee and Technology Advisory Group on any topics related to repository management and use cases
Survey the DSpace community to solicit comments and suggestions on recent developments in the software
Champion particular feature requests or bug reports
Gather use cases to help inform the Product Plan
Share knowledge and best practices on user mailing lists
Meeting Frequency: Monthly
Group Participants (no limit on number of participants):
DCAT members are primarily individuals who function as DSpace repository managers at their institution
.All members have an interest in advancing the development of the DSpace software and expanding the user community
.DCAT aims to have representatives across the globe in order to provide broad support to the DSpace user community
Anyone in the community may choose to join DCAT
More details coming soon. Official charge is being drafted by the existing DCAT group.
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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 Technical 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 paths forward).
In some cases, participants may help lead or organize implementation teams (of Committers and/or donated developers) to 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
Participants are selected from the Committers group by the Technical Lead and the Committers.
Community Contributors (non-Committers) may be selected to this group by a vote of the Committers.
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