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Membership Updates:

• No updates (0 members gained / lost since July 2025)
• Total of 123 Members (60 direct, 63 via Consortia) for 2025-26

Governance:

• New Chair and Vice Chair in place
• The Leadership meeting schedule has been altered to allow for 2 weeks between Steering and Leadership meetings (exception: November 2025)
• Leadership Onboarding Meeting was held on Monday, Nov 17: Slide Deck

Annual Report:

• Holger has asked Leadership for feedback via email. Please provide your input by Tuesday, Nov 25 (EOD)

Accessibility:

• Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT) for versions 7.6.5, 8.2, and 9.1 now published on the DSpace website (Monday, Nov 17, 2025)
• Updates:
  • WCAG 2.x Level A 3.2.2 changed from "Partially Supports" to "Supports"
  • Section 508 Chapter 5 504 Authoring Tools: Section has been changed from "Does Not Support" to "Not Applicable"

Development: 

• Team is working on general planning for 10.0, but is highly dependent on a decision regarding the potential merger.  That said, we are reviewing two ports of DSpace-CRIS features to DSpace (Audit Framework & emails to fixed recipients) which are merger independent.

DCAT: 

• Kent Gerber please add anything you'd like to add hereHeld first meeting of the governance year with new Chair on November 18. Will continue regular schedule of meeting on the second Tuesday of the month.

Outreach: 

• New Governance Seating and Election Video: Holger has asked Leadership for feedback via email. Please provide your input by Tuesday, Nov 25 (EOD)
• National User Group Events
  • Polish National User Group Meeting: Nov 24-26 in Krakow
  • Czech National User Group Meeting: Dec 2 in Brno
  • German National User Group Meeting (Praxistreffen): March 10-11 in Lüneburg
• PCG Academia is planning an event in May 2026 on repositories, there will be a National UG meeting and possibly participants from neighbouring countries
• Open Repositories: Call for proposals now open; hard deadline: January 11, 2026
• A new Consortium Member might be formed by the end of 2025-Jan 2026 in Poland. It should be a Platinum Member. If this is the case, the new Platinum Member will have a guaranteed seat in the Governance and able to join the Leadership Meeting in February 2026. It happened already in the past with Concytec which joined as a Platinum member a few months after the beginning of the Term
• DSpace Deep Dive Webinar: Matomo Analytics in DSpace
  • Date: December 9, 2025 – Registration Link forthcoming

Partnerships:

• LA Referencia Q3 Report on DSpace activities in Latin America is available and can be found here

National User Groups events guidelines:

• there is now a wiki page in the National User Groups section dedicated to event's guidelines for any UG Coordinator interested in planning an event: Guidelines for DSpace National User Group Events

Org Home:

• Technical Support Engineer search: We have three finalists for the position after first round interviews of seven candidates. The finalist interviews will be held between December 1 and 8 and we hope to be able to make an offer before the December holidays.

Background: Bridget's email to Leadership dated Nov 13, 2025 containing the Q1 Financial Statements

Overview of DSpace's 2025-26 Q1 Financial Report

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Background: Email from Holger to Leadership dated Nov 13, 2025 containing: 

• Strategy Planning Group Report
• Technology Planning Group Report
• Recommendations from Steering to Leadership

Presentation of Summary and Highlights  

Questions, Comments?

Vote on Potential Merger of DSpace & DSpace-CRIS

Questions, Feedback and Discussion