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  1. Welcome and Introductions

      Leadership Group Members

      • Tal Ayalon, World Bank Group
      • Pascal-Nicolas Becker, The Library Code*
      • Corey Davis, University of Victoria Libraries
      • Lieven Droogmans, Atmire*
      • Rose Fredrick, Creighton University 
      • Scott Hanrath, University of Kansas*
      • Barbara Hirschmann, ETH Zurich 
      • Jyrki Ilva, National Library of Finland 
      • Tim McGeary, Duke University Libraries
      • Agustina Martínez-García, University of Cambridge*
      • Robert Miller, LYRASIS
      • Erik Moore, University of Minnesota
      • Susanna Mornati, 4Science*
      • Jere Odell, IUPUI*
      • Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library* (Chair)
      • Beate Rajski, DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland
      • Bronwen Sprout, The University of British Columbia
      • Gail Steinhart, Cornell University Library
      • Ianthe Sutherland, The University of Edinburgh 
      • Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University Libraries* (Vice Chair) (star)

      LYRASIS attendees

      • Laurie Arp
      • Michele Mennielli
      • Tim Donohue

      The (star) represents who will be taking notes for a given meeting. It rotates after each meeting to the next person in the attendee list.

      *Members of DSpace Steering Group

      Meeting time:  4PM-6PM UTC

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      Meeting ID: 502 527 3040

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      Agenda

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      Who

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      Welcome and introductions

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      • Welcome
      • Thank you to meeting note-taker
      • Brief introductions of Leadership Group members and meeting attendees

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      DSpace Development Report

        1. Housekeeping: Kristi's final meeting as chair. Meet quarterly, 2 hours, no breaks. Rotate note taker alphabetically.
        2. LYRASIS staff and members of Leadership each introduced themselves
      1. DSpace Development Report
        1. Tim gave an update on the current status

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        1. on the current status of DSpace 7 development.
          • A lot of great feedback so fr on 7.

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          • 0 and 7.1
          • 7.2 is scheduled for February 7, 2022. Three major features expected:
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            • Feedback form
            • Export metadata (to CSV) from search results

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          • Starting with 7.3, we

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          • will move to 3 releases per year

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          • to allow a few more larger features
          • 7.3 will be 4 months later than 7.3, around early June 2022.
          • Reminder of how we got here (See "Milestones" in DSpace Release 7.0 Status) & Prioritization of 7.x features
          • Opportunities for contribution to DSpace development
            • New features funded from DSpace budget are built in priority order. We are averaging around 3 funded features per release.
            • New features donated to DSpace are accepted at any time (regardless of priority ordering).

      Tim Donohue

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      DSpace Community Advisory Team report

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      1. DCAT Report
        1. DCAT is currently working on end-user documentation for 7.x to compliment existing DSpace 7 documentation on the wiki.
        2. Second documentation sprint November 15-28, 2021 (2021 DSpace 7.1 User Documentation Sprints)
      2. Governance Matters      a.

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      1. Elections of community-at-large members
          • The Leadership Group retains two voting seats for community participants (i.e. non-members). Nominations were solicited for these seats last month

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          • Ex officio, non-voting seats are also available at the discretion of Leadership.

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          • Steering shared their recommendations
          • Leadership voted to fill the two voting seats. Lautaro Julián Matas and Tiago Ferreira elected.
          • Leadership voted to fill two non-voting seats. Victor Gomez and Ayenew Fentahun were elected to ex-officio, non-voting

                      b. Call for nominations for Leadership/Steering Chair and Vice Chair

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          • Open nominations for

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      Kristi Park, Michele, Mennielli

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      Financial Update

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      • Recent financial reports shared in email
        • DSpace has $ 43,000 in net assets (as of 10/31/21)
        • Variances include Fundraising and related expenses (SCOSS delayed fundraising campaign start)
        • Report does not reflect 7.1 paid development expenses yet
      • Update on paid development costs
        • 7.1 dev costs estimated to be approx $ 31k (lower than budgeted)
        • 7.2 approved up to 2.0 FTE $ 63,000
        • 7.3 approved up to 2.0 FTE up to $ 84,000 (likely less)

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      Laurie Arp, Kristi Park

          • three three-year term and one one-year term Steering seats. Nominations due in one week. Specify term willing to run for.
          • Once Steering is seated, a Chair and Vice-Chair will be elected.

             5. Financial Update

      6. SCOSS update

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      DSpace was selected as one of three open source infrastructure projects endorsed in SCOSS's latest funding call, which began this fall.

      More about SCOSS: https://scoss.org/how-it-works/current-funding-calls/ 

      Questions for consideration from potential funder:

      • is there a procedure regarding the declaration of links or conflicts of interest within the nomination process in the boards (steering, leadership)?
      • is DSpace considering writing a living will type document in the coming months/years?

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      Product Visioning Working Group update: Preview of draft recommendations

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      Reference: DSpace Product Visioning Group

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      . Any other business, as time allows

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      Opportunities for serving on working groups/interest groups 

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