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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 - joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour afterwards?
   7. Other news?

2. New feature review process

   1. Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
      1. What it is:
         1. group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community 
         2. facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
         3. possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
         4. collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
      2. What it is not:
         1. a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
         2. having discussions just to have discussions
   2. Process overview
   3. Future discussion schedule

3. Update on previously reviewed items

   1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah)
   2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin)
   3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim)

4. Meeting Attendees:

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