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Steering Group

The Steering Group is nominated and elected by the Leadership Group and members are chosen among the Leaders. The Steering Group is composed of 9 Members elected for a 3-year term and it provides project oversight and ensures that the priorities of the Leadership Group and members are met, by:

• Providing strategic direction to the Project
• Recommending annual budget allocations
• Presenting key decisions to the Leadership Group for discussion and approval
• Raising funds and securing other resources on behalf of the Project
• Overseeing project operations

The Steering Group is in the process of being nominated by the Leadership Group.

Leadership Group

The Leadership Group is made up of members that contribute annually to the project, along with representatives from the DSpace Community at large who are particularly committed to the Project, including Service Providers.

Eligibility to serve in the Leadership Group is determined based on the membership levels as follows:

• Platinum - 1 seat per member
• Gold - 1 seat per member
• Silver - 1 seats for every 4 members
• Bronze - 1 seat for every 8 members

The Leadership group will also benefit from the participation of:

• 2 Members nominated by the community at large and voted by the Members
• Representatives from Registered Service Providers
• Ex-officio and/or emeritus members

The Leadership Group approves the overall priorities and strategic direction of the project by:

• Approving the annual budget allocation and any modifications
• Approving the product roadmap
• Approving the strategic direction
• Nominating and electing Steering Group members
• Voting on key decisions presented by Steering Group
• Helping to raise funds and secure other resources on behalf of the project

Current members of the Leadership Group may be found at https://duraspace.org/dspace/leadership-group

Committers Group

DSpace Committers have autonomous control over the code and are also the primary support team for DSpace. The primary responsibilities of Committers are:

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Anyone may be nominated as a Committer by anyone else. Typically, nominations are made by existing Committers on the basis of sustained contribution to DSpace that indicates an ability to fulfill Committer responsibilities. Examples of such contribution are participation in discussions on the DSpace mailing lists, IRC Slack etc, participation in developer meetings, reporting bugs, help with testing, and contribution of code via pull requests. Only existing Committers may vote to add a nominated person to the Committers group.

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The DSpace Marketing Interest Group is also working on a secondary scope: identifying specific actions that requires a shorter time to be made concrete. To make it possible, Working Groups are being created with individual work group charges and related documentation for action.

Sub-Groups of DMIG:

• Telling DSpace Stories (TDS) Work Group (2015) - The Telling DSpace Stories Working Group of the DSpace Marketing Interest Group aims to increase interactions and build deeper connections between community members and institutions by creating and publishing stories about their DSpace repositories.

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