Developers Meeting before OR10 on Mon, July 5, 2010

Logistics

• Location: UNED (the University), Facultad de Humanidades (Room B)
  • Google Map: Edificio de Humanidades - UNED
  • How to Get There: (copied from info provided in above Google Map):
    • From Moncloa Metro stop: 15/20 mins nice walk through the "Parque del Oeste"
    • Metro + bus :
      1. Metro "Moncloa" + Bus: 160, 161 o "A" (all Stops at Avenida de Séneca)
      2. Metro "Príncipe Pío " + Bus 46 (Stop: Senda del Rey - Obispo Trejo, in front of "Facultad de Derecho")

• Time: Meeting is scheduled from 12pm-6pm

• Other Items of Interest:
  • Fedora Committers will be meeting in same building (they are meeting 10am-6pm). No joint meeting planned on Mon, but we will have opportunities to introduce ourselves/socialize both at lunch and at the bar/tapas in evening.
  • Lunch will be provided (1pm-2pm)
  • Will break to bar & tapas in afternoon/evening
  • May be provided coffee breaks? (Tim will check into it)

• NOTE: This meeting directly conflicts with PASIG. PASIG is 8:30am-5pm on Monday

Suggested Topics to Discuss

• DSpace RoadMap planning – led by Tim Donohue
  • Includes Fedora integration discussions / brainstorming: DSpace-Fedora Integration FAQ
• SWORD Project's next steps?? – led by Stuart Lewis? or perhaps Richard Jones?
• DSpace 2.0 Integration Projects – led by Mark Diggory (subprojects to be presented by other devs where appropriate)
  • Overview of DSpace Addon Module Design and Spring
  • Discussion of Storage Services and Storage Providers as an addition to 1.7
  • Discussion on Solr Integration and Unified Search/Browse as an addition to 1.7
• GSoC updates/discussion – led by Mark Diggory
• Dspace source distributions - what should/shouln't be included.
• Feature planning for DSpace 1.7 – Peter Dietz
• Interacting more with DSpace Community Outreach Group via a new Community Advisory Team – Val Hollister

General Agenda

12-1pm : Intros, Overview & Brief Updates

• Intros & Overview
• Past reflection on 1.6.x releases:
  • What have we learned?
  • What went well, what could we improve?
• GSoC project updates (Mark Diggory)
• Other updates?

1-2pm

• Lunch is provided

2-3:15pm : Discussion of Current/Ongoing Projects

• 2.0 integration work (Mark Diggory)
  • Overview of DSpace Addon Module Design and Spring
  • Discussion of Storage Services and Storage Providers as an addition to 1.7
  • Discussion on Solr Integration and Unified Search/Browse as an addition to 1.7
• AipBackupRestorePrototype / DuraCloud integration project (DuraSpace & MIT & IUPUI) (Tim Donohue)

~3:15pm - Break

3:30-4:45pm : Discussion of RoadMap for Future

• Fedora integration proposal (Tim Donohue)
• 1.7 planning (what's in it?)
• Longer-Term Questions:
  • Source / binary distributions (what should/shouldn't be included?)
  • Should all webapps/UIs remain out of the box? (JSPUI, XMLUI, OAI, SWORD, LNI, SOLR)
  • How do we make upgrades/installs/configuration easier?

~4:45pm - Break

5-6pm : Discussion of Integrations / Communications with others

• SWORD updates (Stuart Lewis? or Richard Jones?)
• Community Advisory Team & DSpace Global Outreach Committee (Val Hollister & Tim Donohue)

~6pm

• Head to bar (with Fedora Committers) for Beer/Sangria/Tapas

Attendance / Availability

• Tim Donohue – available all day.
• Stuart Lewis – available all day.
• Claudia Jürgen - not attending the OR10
• Robin Taylor - not arriving until mid-afternoon.
• Andrea Bollini - arriving at 3pm
• Peter Dietz – available all day.
• Keith Gilbertson – available all day.
• Graham Triggs - available all day.
• Richard Jones - will try to make it to the meeting at some point in the afternoon
• Richard Rodgers – available all day.