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1. News

   1. Welcome to our 6 new members!
   2. DSpace 1.7 promotion
      1. Universidad Nueva Esparta
      2. School of Information, University of Texas-Austin
      3. Runfo SA
      4. Webmed Limited
      5. Malmö University
      6. University of Michigan, Deep Blue?
   3. Next major DSpace release
      1. Oct 2011
      2. what might be included: release notes
   4. e-Forum on March 23-24: Collaborating with contributors: "Project workflows" hosted by Alice Platt
      1. need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
      2. future topic suggestions?
         1. statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
         2. copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
         3. citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
         4. upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
   5. 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: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/DSpace+Documentation
   6. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
      2. DSpace committer mtg on either Mon June 6 or Tues June 7 - DCAT members welcom - joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour afterafterwards?
   7. Other news?

2. New feature review process

   1. Goals
   2. Overview
   3. Future discussion schedule
      1. 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

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. 1. schedule 

2. Update on previously

3. 1. 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?
4. Quick review of

   reviewed items

   1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): I believe Sarah needs to get a status update from Jose Blanco. Jim, I'm sure you have the inside scoop here, but according JIRA, Jose was going to give the work a shot. If he is stuck / doesn't have time, I suggest Sarah put this up for a community-wide discussion. From the issue notes, it sounds like the committers believe the implementation is too specific to Univ of Mich -- and the feature needs to have some configurable options. Part of the reason a community-wide discussion would be useful is to discover if the committer's view is consistent w/the rest of the community. Perhaps once we get some interested parties talking about the feature we can shake loose some developer resources to help or take over the work for Jose. In the background, perhaps there could also be some discussions about pooling resources between Univ of Mich and Univ of Illinois -- since both sound interested in the feature (yes, my heavy handed hint here). 
   2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): I know that Richard really hoped to have this ready for 1.7 and would anticipate that this is something he plans to have ready for 1.8 -- but I believe he needs to give Elin an accurate assessment of whether or not if will be done by August, which is the cut off for 1.8 features. My understanding is that he has already done much of the work, so if he doesn't think he will have it done in time, it is hard to envision him passing the work to someone else, but perhaps he would be willing if it is a known resource. I would recommend Elin gets a status (cc me and Tim Donohue if your emails continue to go unanswered). If he is not confident it will be done by August, then you may also want to ask him if he would be willing for someone else to pick up his work. If he is willing, then I recommend Elin lead a community-wide discussion on it and try to find some resources. Frankly, I would be very surprised if he doesn't have definite plans to have this in 1.8 though.
   3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): This sounds like a pretty big project with some complexities. I personally like the idea of using this as the beginning point of making UIs for modifications/configurations more friendly for non-developers. Jim, do you think there is a more strategic conversation that we need to have w/the cmtrs about functionality like this? Perhaps there is a framework they can develop that would help make creating UIs for configurations more easy (there has to be something like this, don't you think?). I'm afraid if we put this one up for community-wide discussion we'll just get a laundry list of more things -- not that that would be bad -- just might not be as productive as trying to find a framework to help start chipping away at this.

5. Meeting Attendees:

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NEXT MEETING ON APRIL 5, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT