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Zoom:  Link in calendar invite

Leadership Group Members

• Bridget AlmasLyrasisAlmasLyrasis* (Ex-officio, Lyrasis seat)
• Pascal-Nicolas Becker The Library Code*
• Isabel Bernal Spanish National Research Council CSIC
  
• Bill Branan Johns Hopkins University
• Kimberly Chapman University of Arizona Libraries (Ex-officio, DCAT Chair)
• user-58958 Duke 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*
  
• Susanna Mornati (Mornati 4Science) 4Science*
• 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*

Lyrasis attendees

• Tim Donohue Donohue 
• Holger Lenz Lenz 
• Michele Mennielli Mennielli 

Guest

• Andrea Bollini (4Science) 

The  represents who will be taking notes for a given meeting. It rotates after each meeting to the next person in the attendee list.

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Notes

1    Welcome

2    Leadership

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• Testathon working group will be forming.
• Participation in monthly meetings has been strong. User groups very popular. (Partly bc North American group meets on every other year.)
• Hard to find chairs for working groups.
• UX Working Group is wrapping up its work. With report forthcoming.
• Engagement good, but community of busy.

12    Membership Updates

• Holger: one new member, Silver level (FAO UN); lost a member; some leads ... new member expected next month.
• Holger: Exploring how to convert SCOSS contributors into members. Can those that pledged one-time contributions become regular members?
• Kristi Park: many SCOSS contributors are consortia ... how to have a consortia-based membership program?

13    Membership and Fundraising

• One-to-one outreach: Anyone interested? Reach out to DSpace institutions and ask them about membership.
  • Response: 
    
    • Kristi, Jere: would participate
• Member summit idea: It has been done in the past (in the DuraSpace days ... as a DuraSpace project summit). Would it be beneficial to have a virtual summit? When to do it? Response:
  • Kristi: likes the idea, would be beneficial to members.
  • Maureen: Could have two per year.
  • Jyrki: Please keep time differences in mind. (Seconded by Pascal.)
  • Maureen: Could have meetings a & b to accommodate time differences.

14    Communications/Outreach

• Holger: Video series that explains DSpace community and how to get involved. 1st video ready for feedback will be sent via email.
• Maureen: Excellent work. Not public yet. Please offer feedback by end of the day on 2/26.

15    Community

• Events?

16    Travel/Global Outreach

• Maureen read notes (had trouble hearing this, J.O.)
• Holger: going to German user group meeting in March.
• Pascal: Thanks. Program will be published on Monday.

17    OR2025

• Two workshops accepted.
  • Developer meetup workshop (Tim and Holger)
• OR Acceptances to be sent this week.

18    Lyrasis

• Lautaro Matas: LA Referencia update. Looking for ways to measure impact, working on translating documentation and creating new documentation. Offering training. Focused on Latin America but expects results to benefit others globally. Will share meeting information on request.

19    Meetings

•  Future meeting topics?
• AI?
• Performance Issues?
• Please send ideas to Maureen or Augustina.

20    Other business

• Holger will send a new Zoom link out.
• Jyrki: call to sign declaration regarding US science funding see: link above.
• Maureen: Can we have a meetup at OR? Interest expressed.

Action Items

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