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# | Time | Item | Information | Who |
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1 | 5 min | Welcome & general announcements | Kristi | |
2 | 5 min | Quarterly Finance Report | Reference:
| Laurie |
3 | 10 min | Global representation on DSpace Leadership - a proposal for the at-large Leadership seats | There are more than a dozen regional/national DSpace User Groups around the world. See User Groups for a list. As part of efforts to better engage with and support these groups, could we nominate members from these groups to fill one or more of the at-large seats on the Leadership Group. For reference, see Leadership Group. "The Leadership group also benefits from the participation of:
| Kristi, Michele |
15 min | Changing the Ex Officio Status of the organizational home seat on Leadership Group | Proposal for consideration by Leadership: "As a stakeholder in the success and sustainability of the DSpace community, we propose the organizational home seat on the Leadership Group transition to a voting seat. We propose the seat be available to a representative of the organizational home for as long as the relationship between community and organizational home is active." Currently, Erin Tripp is serving as the organizational home representative on the Leadership Group, with Laurie Arp serving as interim. | Kristi Robert and Laurie will be present to answer questions. | |
4 | 25 min | Creating a sustainable path forward for DSpace 7 | Given current challenges and delays with DSpace 7 development, how can governance create/support a predictable and viable path forward for DSpace 7 development?
What strategies can Leadership envision for securing resources to accelerate DSpace 7 development (and sustain and grows the Project long-term)? Some possible approaches:
| Kristi |
6 | if time allows | AOB |
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Andrea Bollini: not realistic timeframes for this release framework. We assume we have more developer resources than what we really have. Dspace The real issue is not the lack of resources but the enormous amount of work put in a single release, we need a better definition of priorities and postpone activities which are not strictly necessary. DSpace 7 is very very late, we need to release each year. We don't need to have everything in a single release. We did not estimate properly. Institutions coming to us, we cannot have another OR and do not present a proper release, we cannot go with just another Beta. The effort on the framework is appreciated but we need to release earlier, work with an MVP and continue conversations with the community. We are at risk of also missing a release for OR 2021.
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