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1. Upcoming DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. April 10
   2. May 8
   3. June 12
2. DSpace 1.8.2 released last week: news piece, full release notes
3. OR12 deadlines: March 8
4. DSpace Developers' Virtual Summit
5. News
   1. DuraSpace Open Technologies By the Numbers: 
      1. over 1200 DSpace repositories in over 100 countries
      2. new countries: Iraq, South Korea, Rwanda, Sudan
      3. biggest growth in Brazil +23, India +18, United States +17, Spain +15, Japan +14, Ukraine +14, Portugal +13
   2. New Open Source Video Digitization Tools from the National Archives
   3. DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repository Ranking"
   4. Sorting Through the Data: BioMed Central Launches "Systematic Reviews"
   5. Fighting Poverty Together: Open Repository Partners with Oxfam
   6. "AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship" White Paper Available
6. New Hot Topics webinar series 
   1. Recordings available for 2 of the 3 "Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning" Series
   2. Upcoming webinar: "Preservation and Archiving Highlights from the Alliance Digital Repository" on Tuesday March 27, 2012
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8. The next Hot Topics webinar series    
9. Previous webinar recordings:Other webinar recordings: "DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education" by Michele Kimpton and Jonathan Markow
10. Other news?
11. Events     Events
    1. Upcoming - 
    2. SPARC OA Meeting in Kansas March 12-13 and Dpace User Group Meeting March 14
    4. conference themes
    5. DSpace user group mtg and Crowdvine
    6. CNI in Baltimore April 2-3
    JCDL in Washington June
    7. OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13

Minutes

2) action items

-language translations: know where the changes need to be made, just need to ensure changes won't require extra work / very challenging process, Claudia and Bram to create a JIRA issue, Tim to use it to re-start discussion w/cmtrs 

3) OR12 DSpace user group mtg

-deadline for submission is March 8

-looking for interesting proposals/project

--content proposals from librarian's perspective

--women presenters?

--creative content - to get spirit of the "fringe" idea incorporated

--tutorials: curation tasks (Kim Sheppard, Wendy from MIT)

--panel discussion: how DSpace works as an open source community - using JIRA, DCAT - mysterious how open source works - how can you feedback/contribute to the community, round table discussion w/cmtrs, DCAT members, have moderator

-need a dsug program cmte - to review submissions, work on format of the day  

4) discussion on current JIRA issues

• DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
  • find volunteers to work on project
  • research approaches - Iryna's proposal, AgriOcean Windows version
  • aim for simplification, not perfection
  • identify any areas that we may need rework other parts of DSpace 

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• restart discussion - XML & JSP are now at the same place
• create a new JIRA issue (reference old JIRA issues) to help clarify goal: allow admins to indicate a withdrawal reason and have it displayed
  • build vision of workflow and requirements
  • what is the functionality that we want to see

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5) new JIRA issues

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Actions Items from this meeting

Action Item	Assignee	Deadline