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1. Welcome and Introductions
   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
2. DSpace Development Report
   1. Tim gave an update on the current status on the current status of DSpace 7 development.
      • A lot of great feedback so fr on 7.0 and 7.1
      • 7.2 is scheduled for February 7, 2022. Three major features expected:

        • Embargo entire item

        • Feedback form
        • Export metadata (to CSV) from search results
      • Starting with 7.3, we will move to 3 releases per year 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).
3. 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)
4. Governance Matters      a.
   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.
      • Ex officio, non-voting seats are also available at the discretion of Leadership.
      • 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

• • • Steering: Open nominations for three three-year term terms and one one-year term Steering seats. Nominations due in one week. Specify term willing to run for.
    • Once Steering is seated, a Chair (two-year term, from Steering) and Vice-Chair (one-year term, from Leadership or Steering) will be elected.

       5. Financial Update

a. Laurie provided a financial update.

• • • 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)

b. LYRASIS has an up to a $25,000 match for fundraising for the year outside of membership

• • • National Library of Finland contributed $15,000.
    • $10,000 remains to be matched. If you have end of year funds, great opportunity to double the contribution.

       6. SCOSS update

       7. Product Visioning Working Group update: Preview of draft recommendations

       8. Any other business, as time allows

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