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Developers Meeting before OR11 on Mon, June 6, 2011

Face-to-face developer's meeting on topic of DSpace RoadMap just before Open Repositories 2011 in Austin, Texas.

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Much more information is available on the OR11 Preconference Events page.

Who is invited?

If you don't fall into one of the above categories, you are still welcome to attend. However, be warned that discussion will likely get very technical at times (which is why we recommend you be a developer or have a technology background).

Space is limited. Please sign up on the Sign Up sheet below. If we begin to achieve capacity, preference will be given to Committers or DCAT Members. However, we welcome any interested DSpace developers to join us and take part in the discussion!

Logistics

Note on Accommodations

If you're planning on staying at the OR conference hotel, be advised that the conference rate of $129/night is only available from June 7th onward. The OR11 website accommodations page has a list of alternative hotels you may wish to choose from for the nights of June 5th and 6th.

General Agenda

Format of Meeting

This meeting will be organized as a group discussion. Although at times one or more of us may lead discussion sections, it is meant to be a group discussion and not a series of presentations (in fact, at this time there are no plans for any presentations / slides).

General Outline of Agenda:

  • Introductions & Plans for day
  • Brainstorming Activity (TBA)
  • Discussion & Final Decision on whether we want to change our version numbering scheme (i.e. Do we want to continue with incrementing version numbers or move to something else?)
  • Brief Updates on Upcoming/Ongoing Work
  • Discussion of collaboration between DCAT & Committers groups. Are there ways to improve/enhance what we are already doing?
  • An "Open Discussion" period (wherein we will discuss "hot topics" decided by all of us) - This is where we'd like input from all attendees on topics that are of the most interest to each of them.
    • A portion of this period will be left completely "unscheduled", so that we have flexibility to discuss other topics that come up.
  • Summarizing & Bringing it all together: What do we see as our Technology RoadMap/Goals for next few years? What can we 'vote on' and approve?
    • Approve a general DSpace 2011-2012 Technology RoadMap

Possible Topics for "Open Discussion" period:

  • Creating a Common Business Logic Tier (share business logic between each of the UIs, rather than each UI building its own separate business logic)
  • Enhancing Metadata Support (how can we enhance metadata support? what metadata should we work to support more in future?). Related discussions:
  • Modularization activities & Async discussions (how can we better modularize DSpace and move towards a "plugin" framework, what would be requirements, etc.) Related Discussions:
  • Documentation Management Team & ongoing Documentation mgmt in general
    • Related discussions around whether we should create a "Documentation Management" team or a team of 'editors' to help clean up docs and improve management of them. This team of "editors" may provide some basic approval for Docs changes, and would also "lean on" committers when necessary to ensure new features are fully documented, etc.
  • Anything "annoyingly obsolete" (technology wise) we really need to address soon?
  • REST API or other important projects that may need "one last push" for official release.
  • More General Discussion/Brainstorming of DSpace RoadMap (though entire meeting is generally related to this overarching topic)

Informal Evening Meet-Up

As usual, after the meeting, there will be an informal meet-up somewhere in town for anyone who wants to go out for dinner or drinks. Similar to last year, we are planning to coordinate evening events with the Fedora Developers, so that we can all meet up and intermingle. Details are still forthcoming, and will be posted here as we get closer to OR11.

Sign Up to Attend!

If you're planning to attend this meeting, please add your name to the sign up sheet. Also, please add a note as to your general availability that day (e.g. "available all day", "available PM only", etc.).

Sign Up Sheet - Will Be Attending

  1. Tim Donohue – available all day
  2. Valorie Hollister -- available all day (although going between DSpace/Fedora committer mtgs)
  3. Scott Phillips - available all day
  4. Imma Subirats - not sure of availability yet, most probably PM
  5. Mark Diggory - should be available all day at this point.
  6. Mark H. Wood – available all day
  7. Keith Gilbertson -- available all day
  8. Richard Rodgers - available all day
  9. Stuart Lewis - available all day
  10. Kim Shepherd - available all day
  11. Elin Stangeland - available all day
  12. Graham Triggs - available all day (ish)
  13. Jonathan Markow - available from late morning on
  14. Benoit Pauwels - available all day
  15. Andrea Schweer - available all day
  16. Jonathan Amburn - available all day
  17. Robin Taylor - available all day
  18. Sarah Shreeves - available all day
  19. Richard Jones - available all day
  20. Peter Dietz - available all day
  21. Bram Luyten (Atmire) - available all day
  22. Bradley McLean

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