Meeting Agenda
Due to capacity constraints on the teleconference line, if you plan to attend the meeting please email Valorie Hollister at vhollister[at]duraspace.org in advance to ensure their will be space. This month's meeting will occur Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 9:00am Eastern/14:00 GMT.. For dial in instructions, click here.
News
- xSo long and big thank you to Ronee Francis
- xDSpace reaches 1000 known instances
- DSpace 1.7 promotion
- 1.7 webinar recording posted shortly
- Univ of Mich 1.7 upgrade complete?
- Cambridge working on scalability testing in Feb/Mar, upgrading before summer
- possibly more webinars in March or April - deeper dive on 1.7 features - Mirage and DSpace Discovery (ustreamtv.com)
- Next major DSpace release
- Oct 2011
- what might be included: release notes
- e-Forum on Jan 20-21 "Is DSpace 1.7 on your roadmap?" - hosted by Alice Platt, next e-forum on March 15-16 (3 days?)
- need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
- future topic suggestions
- Statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
- Workflow (how do you put things into your repository?)
- Copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
- Citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
- upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
- Documentation Mgmt Team
- useful info from mailing list - procedure to get answers from mailing list to wiki docs or in a FAQ/discussion forum
- Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
- DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer - sent out call on 1/31
- planning a joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour at OR11
- need date announced - likely June 7th - need notice to DCAT
- Other news?
New feature discussion process
- how did it go? what are some of the issues?
- like to see more participation, good enough discussion, complicated issue - wondering about next steps
- inquires to cmtrs/developer on status of issue -- whether work is continuing by assignee or where it can be worked on be others - kicked back to DCAT to solicit help
- participation
- if you haven't lead a discussion yet (aim is for everyone to lead one every 6-8 wks), please sign up for a week and make a JIRA issue selection (something that interests you!)
- this week - Jan 26 - Feb 4: Sarah Shreeves - DS587 Tombstoning
- please participate in discussions, even if it is just to vote on the discussion leaders recommendations, +1, -1 or 0
- pick issue and sign up on the discussion schedule - each member to lead one discussion every 6-8 wks
- if possible, the week you are the discussion leader, please attend the committer mtg
- if you haven't lead a discussion yet (aim is for everyone to lead one every 6-8 wks), please sign up for a week and make a JIRA issue selection (something that interests you!)
- next steps for high priority, broad interest
- when to schedule discussions (don't want to conflict w/e-forum)
- use the discussion forum or the mailing list?
- how did it go? what are some of the issues?
Recruiting new members
- any candidates? (particularly in Europe or Asia)
Meeting Attendees:
- Bram Luyten, Graham Triggs, Jim Ottaviani, Elin Stangeland
NEXT MEETING ON MARCH 1, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT