Page History

...

1. News

   1. Welcome to our 6 new members!
   2. xDSpace reaches 1000 known instances
   3. DSpace 1.7 promotion
      1. 1.7 webinar recording posted shortly
      2. Univ of Mich 1.7 upgrade complete?
      3. Cambridge working on scalability testing in Feb/Mar, upgrading before summer
      4. possibly more webinars in March or April - deeper dive on 1.7 features - Mirage and DSpace Discovery (ustreamtv.com)
      5. Universidad Nueva Esparta
      6. School of Information, University of Texas-Austin
      7. Runfo SA
      8. Webmed Limited
      9. Malmö University
      10. University of Michigan, Deep Blue?
   4. Next major DSpace release
      1. Oct 2011
      2. what might be included: release notes
   5. e-Forum on Jan 20-21 "Is DSpace 1.7 on your roadmap?" - March 23-24: Collaborating with contributors: "Project workflows" hosted by Alice Platt , next e-forum on March 15-16 (3 days?)
      1. need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
      2. future topic suggestions?
         1. Statistics statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
         2. Workflow (how do you put things into your repository?)
         3. Copyright copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
         4. Citation citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
         5. upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
   6. Documentation Mgmt Team
      1. useful info from mailing list - procedure to get answers from mailing list to wiki docs or in a FAQ/discussion forum
   7. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer - sent out call on 1/31
      2. DSpace committer mtg on either Mon June 6 or Tues June 7 - DCAT members welcom - planning a joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour at OR11 need date announced - likely June 7th - need notice to DCATafter?
   8. Other news?

2. New feature review process

   1. how did it go? what are some of the issues?
      1. like to see more participation, good enough discussion, complicated issue - wondering about next steps
      2. inquires to cmtrs/developer on status of issue -- whether work is continuing by assignee or where it can be worked on be others - kicked back to DCAT to solicit help
   2. participation
      1. if you haven't lead a discussion yet (aim is for everyone to lead one every 6-8 wks), please sign up for a week and make a JIRA issue selection (something that interests you!)
         1. this week - Jan 26 - Feb 4: Sarah Shreeves - DS587 Tombstoning 
      2. please participate in discussions, even if it is just to vote on the discussion leaders recommendations, +1, -1 or 0
      3. pick issue and sign up on the discussion schedule - each member to lead one discussion every 6-8 wks
      4. if possible, the week you are the discussion leader, please attend the committer mtg
   3. next steps for high priority, broad interest
      1. when to schedule discussions (don't want to conflict w/e-forum)
      2. use the discussion forum or the mailing list?

3. Quick review of reviewed items

   1. Elin working on some people

4. Meeting Attendees:

   1.  

...