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Officers

DSpace Governance is led by a Chair and Vice Chair. These officers serve for both Leadership and Steering.

• The Chair and Vice Chair are elected by the Leadership Group.
• The Chair must be a member of the Steering Group. It is not required for the Vice Chair to be on Steering; in a case where they are not a Steering Group member, the Vice Chair may attend Steering Group meetings, but in a non-voting capacity.
• Role of the Chair and Vice Chair
  • The Chair facilitates Leadership and Steering meetings.
  • The Vice Chair facilitates meetings when the Chair cannot attend.
  • Together, the Chair and Vice Chair serve with the LYRASIS staff representative as a financial oversight committee.
• DSpace Governance encourages geographical diversity in selection of these two positions.
• Terms
  • The Chair serves for a two-year renewable term.
  • The Vice Chair serves for a one-year renewable term. The Vice Chair does not automatically succeed the Chair.

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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