AM Attendees:
Rea
Jim
Christina
Ronee
Monica
Tim
Val
PM Attendees:
Alvin
Sarah
Leonie
Julie
Beth
Tim
Val
Tim Donohue, new DSpace Tech Lead will be joining both calls!
1) News/Updates
-1.6 Testathon started yesterday
-Ambassador program - up to 27 volunteers
-Solution Communities - webinar 2 wks ago and upcoming presentations in the next few wks
-DuraCloud webinar next week Dec 16 (http://www.education-webevents.com/)
2) 1.6 Testathon
-What you can do?: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_Release_1.6.0_Testathon_Page
-Where to get guidance/confirmation?: DSpace IRC chat:http://dspace.testathon.net/, enter in a nickname of your choice and click "Login"
-Where to report a bug?: JIRA http://jira.dspace.org
3) Summary of everyone's feedback from last mtg of what the DGOC focus should be going forward:
-help new and existing users make connections
-drive discussion/interactions on social network
-encourage people who develop code to contribute back
-drive dynamic database project and encourage it's use
-create helpful resources/tools for how to do things/user content tools
-develop/find helpful materials that promote IRs and open access - help w/how to 'sell' your IR to your institution/content contributors
-give repository managers/administrators a voice - find ways for them to engage
-helping with feature requests and to move the DSpace application forward
->Ideas for Involvement in development
-reach out to RM or Ambassadors reach out to RM and discover interests
-help to interpret, clarify and describe user needs
-help cmtrs to ask questions / have discussions that RM can engage with: to encourage discusssion, provide choices (not blank slate) for RMs to respond to
-have a DGOC liasion for each new feature
-target specific RMs for engagement
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4) 2010 Proposed Projects
a. equip the Ambassadors to succeed (better FAQ/knowledgebase)
b. Dynamic Database
c. promote social network and encourage discussions
d. help recruit a different kind of release mgr
e. DSpace wiki clean up/re-org
f. help cmtrs restructure JIRA to maximize repo mgrs engagement
g.help to liase/represent community req'mts to committers (gather feedback, understand what they mean, get good info and distill it down (from community, Ambassadors, etc.) and perform informal/formal survey on release features
4) Dynamic Database
-Initial filters/values here: http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-global-outreach-committee/web/dynamic-database---filters-and-values
-Programming work starting, data clean up done by end of Dec
-Can we think of a different name for it?
Notes on ways DGOC can work with cmtrs/dev
-small steps - build on success
-take some responsibilities for proposal feature requirements - DGOC put strawman out to community for reaction
-dev are all volunteers -- so might not be timing
-find small things to improve -- that won't take so much time -- but big bang
-have regular chats for RMs on specific topics (like the ALA discussion) - dspace general or social network? moderator to push topic and create a summary, Ronee volunteered to start it
EVERYONE'S TO DOS:
-spend an hour testing DSpace 1.6 before the end of Dec 11: think of kicking the tires on the new features....
-need a volunteer to write a 'testimonial' email about their testathon experience: what you tested, how it went, if you found a bug, if you went onto the IRC to discuss a potential bug, if you went onto JIRA to log the bug
-brainstorm a list of topics for regular chats (to be held either on DSpace general mailing list or on Crowdvine)
-brainstorm on rename of the Dynamic Database: Instance Listing/Registry, Repository Database, etc?, Sites Powered by DSpace, DSpaces
