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Upcoming communications

• Beta 3 may be released this month
• Other communications?

End of June for Beta 3 release, beginning of July

Timeline slipping and working to correct

Perhaps changing Beta 3 features

Protocol on releases has been that Tim sends announcement and we pick it up, light edit, Carol sends through LYRASIS channels

Bram will create lightning videos of key Beta 3 features

Maureen Walsh presented at OR2020 Repository Rodeo, no mention of final release date

Heather presented at SMIRC

Working on Spanish versions of DSpace 7 presentations

Planning for DSpace 7 final release:

Tim confirmed that testathon will happen as it has in past releases. That will provide some amount of time to create materials and have them translated in preparation for a release at the same time.

• Where do we start in creating a workflow for this process? 
• What can this group do now, and what do we need others to do?

National User Group coordinators will assist in making the release truly global

Translations and timing on hold because the final release date is unknown

Translating important wiki content into Spanish is underway by the Spanish-speaking user group

What language plug-ins are available for the wiki?

Plug-ins are available and can be installed

This article from Nov 2019 comes from the Atlassian support pages

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-can-i-translate-confluence-page-content-345637421.html

Glossary pages are needed to support translations
Testathons are about 2 weeks til release
Get 
Need to use the endorsements we collected
Encourage upgrades of current DSpace 6 to DSpace 7. Could we launch a communication campaign, who could we reach?

Possible opportunity to look for an upgrade to 6 migration grant
Long timeline; bring to internal DSpace meetings
Catalyst Fund application process has concluded for 2020
Possible promotion of Cat Fund to DSpace community for 2021 for innovative DSpace uses
Campaign for upgrade to 6 appropriate

Possible source for immediate funding:
https://www.imls.gov/grants/apply-grant/notices-funding-opportunities

General upgrade to DSpace 6 campaign so that you can easily upgrade to DSpace 7?
Upgrade to DSpace 6 is a good way to prepare for DSpace 7
Users likely to wait for DSpace 7
DSpace 6.4 is a good and stable release but UI advances is limited
Providers could put an upgrade "package" together?
Existing customizations are an issue with upgrades, expensive

How to help users wrap their brains around the new UI possibilities? Possible DSpace 7 implementation stumbling block.

What needs to be considered philosophically