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Michele provided an update on the nominations to the LG

Have 6 nominations and open till end of next week and reminders will be sent

Will reach out to gold and platinum members for nominees

Seats open for elections by level:

• Bronze - 1 seat every 8 members (4 seats open)
• Silver - 1 seat every 4 members (2 seats open)
• Gold - 1 seat every 1 members (8 seats open)
• Platinum - 1 seat per member -  (4 seats open)
• + 2 from Community-at-Large

Tim congratulated team on preview release in May. Had positive feedback about the features.

• Been a huge effort that has gone into this. Have the largest release in DSpace history.
• Great contributions from 14 institutions. Code reviews and working groups, etc.
• Next preparation is for open repository
• Next: looking at estimations for beta from several developers point of view. There still may be bugs or performance issues. Will run organized sprints to get from preview to beta
• Gap between preview to beta should be shorter time frame
• Have done a lot of automated testing built in.

Ceasar Cesar - Do you need help with translations from the wider community?

Tim - Already have some happening; trying to standardize the practice a bit more and then will get translators involved. Have a wiki page with some information, but will have further updates after open repositories meeting. https://duraspace.org/available-now-dspace-7-preview-release/

Here is the link to the document we used last year for the Steering nominations:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zjy-VCSaNAwWmShgt19rX-amVQOqqX-Pu2pFtKADCnM/edit?usp=sharing

Michele:

• Every year a 1/3 of steering will rotate out. Leaders are elected for 1 year. Having ongoing discussions on how to do it.
• Jyrki: Since the group was set up last year. Didn’t make it clear who will step down. Salwa has moved to another organization. Pascal is also ready to step down. Don’t have a third person yet.
• Need a method to find the third person if nobody volunteers.
• Please send feedback if you have any ideas.