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Steering Group

The DSpace Steering Group is the primary decision-making body of the DSpace Program. It sets the strategic direction of the program, with advice and consent of the Leadership Group. It provides on-going program oversight and ensures that the priorities of the Leadership Group and members are met.

Steering Group members are elected and empowered by the Leadership. Their responsibilities include:

• Operational oversight, including time-sensitive decision-making
• Development of strategic priorities, for approval by Leadership
• Recommendations for budget allocations, for approval by Leadership
• Assistance with fundraising
• Commissioning of and liaising with working groups
• Agenda-setting for quarterly Leadership Meetings

Composition of the Steering Group

• The Steering Group is composed of 9 members.
• Steering Group members serve for three-year term, renewable terms.
• Steering Group members are elected by the Leadership, but can be from outside of the Leadership Group.

DSpace Steering & Leadership Group Meetings 

Leadership Group

The DSpace Leadership Group approves the overall priorities and strategic direction of the program.  The Group’s responsibilities are:

• Approve the annual budget
• Approve the DSpace product roadmap and strategic plan
• Nominate and elect Steering Group members and DSpace Program Chair
• Vote on significant changes to strategic direction or product roadmap presented by the Steering Group
• Help to raise funds and secure other resources on behalf of the DSpace Program

Composition of the 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

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

The Leaders are elected for a 1-year term and there are no term limits.

DSpace Steering & Leadership Group Meetings 

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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