The Steering Group is nominated and elected by the Leadership Group. The Steering Group provides project oversight and ensures that the priorities of the Leadership Group and members are met, by:
The current members of the Steering Group are available on the DSpace website.
The Leadership Group is made up of Gold and Platinum project members, along with representatives from institutions contributing at least 0.5 FTE in-kind developers. The group will also include some elected member representatives from the Silver, Bronze, and Developing Nation contributor levels. The Leadership Group approves the overall priorities and strategic direction of the project by:
The current members of the Leadership Group are available on the DSpace website. More information on the various membership levels and benefits can be found on the DuraSpace membership page and DSpace Governance page.
DSpace Committers have autonomous control over the code and are also the primary support team for DSpace. The primary responsibilities of Committers are:
The Committers group is a meritocracy -- members are added from the pool of volunteer Contributors based on merit. Anyone may be nominated as a Committer by anyone else. Only existing Committers may vote to add a nominated person to the Committers group.
The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) represents the interests of repository managers and administrators across the globe and, indirectly, DSpace end users. DCAT is a permanent Working Group that advises other DSpace project governance and leadership groups. The Team solicits feedback through community-wide discussions, surveys, etc. to help ensure future software releases address the needs of the community. DCAT submits an annual report to the DSpace Steering group that makes the report public after review.
A specific area of focus for DCAT is defined annually by DCAT and the Steering Group.
The DSpace Marketing Interest Group (DMIG) began activities in April of 2015. The main purpose of the Group it is to define the right strategies to highlight the benefits of the open source solution for the Community and effectively communicate those to the users and potential users. The reason for doing so it is that the more people are aware of of such benefits the more people might be interested in financially supporting the project and in becoming Member/Sponsors of DuraSpace. This will allow the organization to keep investing in the project and advancing the software, making it more and more compliant with the ever-changing needs related to the repository world.
Currently the main scope of DMIG is to create a Marketing and Communication Strategy document: a complete analysis of the current DSpace landscape and, more importantly, a set of guidelines to define the future strategies and rationalise them.
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.