Developers Meeting before OR12 on Mon, July 9, 2012

Face-to-face developer's meeting on topic of DSpace RoadMap before OR2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Who is invited?

• All Committers,
• All DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) members,
• Any other interested DSpace developers or technology-savvy individuals

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).

Logistics

• Day: Monday, July 9th, 2012
• Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Lunch break from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM)
• Where: TBA (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Attendance Limit: Likely 30 people maximum

General Agenda

DRAFT AGENDA: (Feedback is welcome!)

"Master of Ceremonies (MC)": Richard Rodgers, MIT

9:00am: Introductions, Overview of Day (Richard Rodgers)

• Introductions

9:15am: Lightning Talks / Updates

• Very brief 2-3 minute updates / talks on cool things you are working on at your institution (preferably repo-related)
• No slides allowed, but there will be an Internet enabled laptop available to show something off.
• After your talk, please add relevant links to this wiki page (so that people can follow up with you later as needed)

9:45am: DCAT Discussions (Discussion Leader: Val Hollister)

• Developer / DCAT collaboration - how has it been, what improvements can we make

10:15ish : Break

10:30am: Ask a Committer / Developer Anything (Discussion Leader: TBD)

• This is a time where anyone can ask anything!
• It is an opportunity to ask about something that's been bugging you in DSpace, or something that you'd really like to see changed/fixed.
• It is also an opportunity to throw out an idea/brainstorm to the Developers/Committers to get quick feedback.

11:00am: Open Discussion Period (Discussion Leader: TBD)

• We will discuss "hot topics" decided by all of us (See #Possible Open Discussion Topics listing)
• This time can also be used to touch back on topics from earlier in the days' discussion.

Noon - 1:30pm: Lunch Break

(Please note that the after-lunch sessions are meant to be a bit more "technology heavy". Non-developers are still welcome to sit in, if you wish. Though you are also welcome to join up again later at the chosen local pub. It's entirely up to you.)

1:30pm: 3.0 Planning / Updates / Digging Deeper Session (Discussion Leaders: 3.0 Release Team members?)

• More detailed planning or updates around DSpace 3.0
• Are there any areas of high interest that need volunteers/support (perhaps based on earlier discussion)? I.e. can we identify areas of "high priority" or potential "low hanging fruit" that needs a person or two to just help out?
• "Finalize" our 3.0 Release Schedule / Feature Freeze dates?

2:30ish: Break

2:45pm: Discussion of DSpace Developer Practices (Discussion Leader: TBD)

• GitHub usage: Any questions/comments from GitHub experience so far? Tips to share?
• Are there ways we can better leverage our developer tools (JIRA, GitHub, Continuous Integration, others) to make things easier on us all?
  • Capture various brainstorms / ideas and perhaps even find volunteers to investigate them (if plausible)
• Any suggestions for how we can improve our development workflow in general? Or, even just improve our patch/pull request workflow(s)?
• What do you need as volunteer developers to make your "lives" easier?

3:45pm: Summarizing & Bringing it all Together

• Ensure any "To-Do's" or Task Assignments are documented
• Any topics that need further discussion & may warrant a "Special Topic Meeting" or even another "Developers Summit"?
• Meeting Wrap-Up

4:00ish: End Meeting & Depart for a Local Pub

Possible Open Discussion Topics

This is a list of topics which we may wish to touch upon either during the "Open Discussion" period, or during another part of the day. This list is unordered and unranked.

Please feel free add any topics to this list that you feel would be worth discussing!

• Various Metadata enhancement work/proposals
  • Updating the Qualified Dublin Core registry in DSpace to the latest standards of the DCMI
  • Standardizing the default namespaces
  • Adding metadata authority controls/vocabularies to the data model
  • Moving metadata related configurations from dspace.cfg to the database
  • Develop support for additional metadata standards (use the "Other" field to specify which standards)
  • Improved (or more transparent) flexibility
  • Enhancing the metadata available for Communities, Collections and Files (bitstreams)
• Re-examination of Autentication / Authorization (RELEVANT LINKS NEEDED)
• XMLUI Theme Repository

Sign Up to Attend!

If you're planning to attend this meeting, please add your name to the sign up sheet. This will allow us to determine a proper headcount. If you only plan to attend for part of the day, you can also let us know (e.g. "AM only", "PM only", etc.).

Sign Up Sheet - Will Be Attending

1. Kevin Van de Velde
2. Bram Luyten (Atmire)
3. Valorie Hollister
4. Stuart Lewis
5. Amy Lana
6. Sarah Shreeves
7. Ryan Scherle
8. Richard Jones
9. Andrea Schweer (afternoon only)
10. Elin Stangeland
11. Robin Taylor
12. Richard Rodgers
13. Mark Diggory
14. Graham Triggs
15. Hardy Pottinger

Want To Attend / May Be Attending

• (add your name here)

Will Not Be Attending

• Tim Donohue - family conflict

Meeting Notes

A summary of the meeting will go here.

(We may just want to use something like PiratePad again to take community notes: http://piratepad.net/)