| Good news! | Pascal | - Between 130-150 synchronous participants for the recent DSpace Anwendertreffen sessions; program reached more than 220 all together; financial support for continuing DSpace 7 beta releases requested at the meeting.
- Attendees required Zoom use instruction
- many views of asynchronous session recordings.
- CNI also running conf virtually; restricted attendance so could be simpler
|
| Beta 2 update: expected in early April | | - A bit late but still expected in early April
- On track
- Tim is struggling with pull requests; would like to take a pause for planning/catch-up
- How to communicate this?
- Spreading out work for communicating releases?
- Workflow begins with Tim's email to the community at large; content is then edited for general distribution; Tim is the authority with regard to what is included in each release
- Beta 2 will include management of versioning; workflow management (eye catchers)
- Agreement that release communications should begin with Tim
- Bram Luyten (Atmire) will put a companion video together for the next release
|
Discussion of upcoming messaging to the community: what messaging do we need, and when? Messaging discussed in the last Leadership meeting: - Message about how to help DSpace 7, for folks who may be at home and have time to assist with testing, PRs, etc.
- Fundraising update (now at $102K) and thank yous to existing contributors – is it time for a call to the wider community for new memberships to support DSpace 7?
- We may need a pause between Beta 2 and Beta 3 for PR catch-up and planning; how do we communicate this in a positive way (planning sprint?)
| Kristi, all | - We have had some fundraising, success; we have passed the100k mark
- Use this milestone to get the word out, celebrate, emphasize that everyone can participate
- 3 ways to support DSpace: become a member; test and join developers meetings; community contributions
- Should present a broad bandwidth of ways to contribute; holistic message; need options
- Would like help to reach out to bronze level members and ask existing members to increase donations
- Kristi suggests 2 separate messages:
- public announcement celebratory
- outreach out to lower level members
- Michele Mennielli suggests a Zoom call reaching out to specific members/years at specific levels; this discussion opportunity could be characterized as a benefit of membership
- ACTION: Michele Mennielli
- Timing late April/May
- Include those who have contributed, Laurie Arp has list. Heather Greer Kleinto ask for list
- Link $$ to specific contributions?
- Communicate that money contributed to completing DSpace 7 is immediately invested in development; goal is 300k. Funds allow service providers to prioritize DSpace 7 work.
- Timing, schedule of multiple messages for review by this group, Heather Greer Klein
- Need to be proactive in communication about the "pause"; clear the backlog
- Tim needs more help; need yet another type of communication targeted at low level tech help? should be targeted to national user groups
|
| Update from Mic: communication with the DSpace user groups, overall outreach strategy for building the DSpace Community - "Repositories in a time of crisis" webinar series | Mic | - A DSpace 7 workshop was planned for COAR https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ubt_GWiObQ6czdgFqjLfhYgp-SNjR8zzQThmybaXemc/edit?pli=1
- Replacement suggestion Michele Mennielli : Series of recorded video presentations, translated; 1 preso per day; distribute over more than a week; use videos to pitch for more participation in completion of DSpace 7; "Repositories in a time of Crisis" discussion of how institutions are dealing with the crisis; "Repositories in a time of Crisis" webinar series–engage community members in this series to talk about their ideas on this topic; reaching out to all national coordinators to have a cross-country coordinator meeting.
- Messaging should include basic value of sharing through repos; crucial role of the repos. communicating in times of crisis. repos more relevant than ever. science can go a lot faster with sharing. some institutions are putting their repos at the forefront. others not yet doing that. need people to recognize repo as a critical system.
- Transform the now defunct DSpace ambassador program into a program of the national UG coordinators: DSpace Ambassador Program
- Webinar series should bedeveloped/scheduled asap Carol Minton Morris Michele Mennielli
|
| Other business, news to share | All | |
| FYI: Upcoming virtual conference, Heather will be presenting a DSpace 7 overview on April 24th (session not yet on the website): https://lib.usm.edu/smirc/ |
|
|
