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• Bridget AlmasLyrasis* (Ex-officio, Lyrasis seat)
• Pascal-Nicolas Becker The Library Code*
• Isabel Bernal Spanish National Research Council CSIC
  
• Andrea Bollini 
   4Science*
• Bill Branan Johns Hopkins University
• Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries (Ex-officio, DCAT Chair)
• user-58958 Maggie Dickson Duke University
• Lieven Droogmans Atmire*
• Mohit Garg Indian Institute of Technology Delhi**
• Scott Hanrath * (non-voting Steering attendee)
• Barbara Hirschmann ETH Zurich
• Jyrki Ilva National Library of Finland
•  Owen Iyoha, Eko-Konnect Research and Education Initiative**
  
• Erica Johns* (non-voting Steering attendee)
• Ed Kirkland University of Nottingham
• James MacKenzie University of New Brunswick 
  
• Agustina Martinez-GarciaUniversity of Cambridge*
• Lautaro Matas  LA Referencia***
  
• Erik Moore University of Minnesota*
• Jere Odell  IU Indianapolis
• Kristi Park Texas Digital Library*
• Beate Rajski DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland
• Julien Sicot EPFL
• Paschal Ssemaganda World Bank Group
• Carolyn Sullivan University of Ottawa
• Ianthe Sutherland University of Edinburgh
• Maureen Walsh Chair, The Ohio State University Libraries*

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• Technology Group:
• Have identified a tentative technical approach that would accomplish the merge in 2 stages over 2 major releases.
• Still have a lot of work to do before can finalize this approach. Not sure if it would be releases 10 and 11 or 11 and 12.
• Trying to develop plans for both paths
• Strategy Group:
  • shared the Strategic Vision Document (https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/EnwBLm_Ut0I/m/C4wFEoCFBAAJ) that highlights the potential and some considerations for how to go about it
  • distributed a feedback form ([https://tally.so/r/mZLgjv](https://tally.so/r/mZLgjv)) for people to add questions and provide feedback
  • Answer: there is a public demo but not a sandbox. Accounts are available to members of the technical and strategy working groups.
  • Answer: No date yet.  The work of the two groups as charged wraps up between October and December. Outputs will go to Steering and then we'll go from there.  Technical perspective is that we need a decision as soon as possible. Likely earliest is late September or early October. Strategy group is going to try to shoot for early October for recommendations document.
• 2 updates have been sent to community
• Planning a webinar q&a session for the end of September
• Will be releasing a recommendations document on the pros and cons
• Need to figure out if and how to extend the work of the strategy group
• Question: Is there a DSpace CRIS sandbox like there is for DSpace?
• Question: Do we have a target date by when we are shooting to make a go/no-go decision about the merger?

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• DSpace Deep Dive webinar series is now live at https://dspace.org/webinars/
• Holger thanks everyone for their feedback
• Sept 3: DSpace 9.x Q&A Session
• Oct 15: Moving from bepress to DSpace
• All should consider contacting Holger or submitting form with your ideas for webinars
• Can bundle presentations together so don't have to be a full hour
• Governance Elections Process video
• Holger is working on a video to explain the process, should have a prototype before the end of this leadership term

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