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What follows is a very high level agenda overview. More details will be coming as we get closer to OR11. If you have any items you'd like to see added to the agenda, please forward them to Tim Donohue.

Note on format of meeting: This meeting will be organized as a group discussion. Although at times one or more of us may lead discussion sections, it is meant to be a group discussion and not a series of presentations.

General Outline of Agenda:

• Introductions & Plans for day
• Brainstorming Activity (TBA)
• Discussion & Final Decision on whether we want to change our version numbering scheme (i.e. Do we want to continue with incrementing version numbers or move to something else?)
• Brief Updates on Upcoming Work of DSpace RoadMap
  See Proposed RoadMap to 2.0 for some very early RoadMap ideas/brainstorms. We'll likely dig deeper into specifics during this face-to-face meeting.
  • Discussion of DSpace 1.8.0
  as pertaining to RoadMap
  • Google Summer of Code (GSOC) updates
• Discussion of collaboration between DCAT & Committers groups. Are there ways to improve/enhance what we are already doing?
• An "Open Discussion" period (wherein we will discuss "hot topics" decided by all of us)
• Summarizing & Bringing it all together: What do we see as our Technology RoadMap/Goals for next few years? What can we 'vote on' and approve? Other DSpace Technology-related Discussions
  Google Summer of Code (GSOC) updates
  • Approve a DSpace 2011-2012 Technology RoadMap
  • See also Proposed RoadMap to 2.0 for some general brainstorms of possible things

Possible Topics for "Open Discussion" period:

• • Creating a Common Business Logic Tier (share business logic between each of the UIs, rather than each UI building its own separate business logic)
  • Enhancing Metadata Support (how can we enhance metadata support? what metadata should we work to support more in future?). Related discussions:
    • Updating to current DCMI standards: DS-805
    • Creating a new "dspace" internal usage schema (for administrative or non-DC metadata)? Formalize the "dc" schema to be strictly valid QDC/DC?
    • Metadata on all DSpace objects (not just Items)
  • Modularization activities & Async discussions. Related Discussions:
    • Restructure Trunk Projects
    • Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model
    • Asynchronous Release
    • Asynchronous Release - Alternative Option
    • Also discussions about whether to "split" up our "Modules SVN area" into three groups: "Sandbox Modules", "Core/Fully Supported Modules", "Extension Modules"
  • Documentation Management Team & ongoing Documentation mgmt in general
    • Related discussions around whether we should create a "Documentation Management" team or a team of 'editors' to help clean up docs and improve management of them.
  • Anything "annoyingly obsolete" (technology wise) we really need to address soon?
    • REST API or other projects that may need "one last push" for official release.
  • More General Discussion/Brainstorming of DSpace RoadMap (though entire meeting really is related to this topic)
    • See Proposed RoadMap to 2.0 for some very early RoadMap ideas/brainstorms.
  • Vote on various Technology/Architecture Proposals

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