| 1 | 20 min | Welcome and introductions | - Welcome
- Thank you to meeting note-taker
- Brief introductions of Leadership Group members and meeting attendees
| Kristi Park, all |
| 2 | 20 min | DSpace Development Report | Update on the current status of DSpace 7 development - 7.2 due on Feb 7. Expect 3 new major features: Embargo entire Item, Feedback form, Export metadata (to CSV) from search results.
- Starting with 7.3, we'll move to 3 releases per year. 7.3 will be 4 months later, around early June.
- Reminder of how we got here (See "Milestones" in DSpace Release 7.0 Status) & Prioritization of 7.x features
- Opportunities for contribution to DSpace development
| Tim Donohue
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| 3 | 15 min | DSpace Community Advisory Team report | | Maureen Walsh |
| 4 | 15 min | Governance Matters | - Elections of community-at-large members
- The Leadership Group retains two voting seats for community participants (i.e. non-members). Nominations were solicited for these seats last month, and Leadership will select from these nominations to fill the two voting seats.
- Ex officio, non-voting seats are also available at the discretion of Leadership.
- List of nominees and their statements: DSpace - Community at Large Nominations.xlsx
- Recommendation of Steering
- Selection of Governance chair – call for nominations for Leadership/Steering Chair and Vice Chair
| Kristi Park, Michele, Mennielli |
| 5 | 15 min | Financial Update
| - Recent financial reports shared in email
- DSpace has $ 43,000 in net assets (as of 10/31/21)
- Variances include Fundraising and related expenses (SCOSS delayed fundraising campaign start)
- Report does not reflect 7.1 paid development expenses yet
- Update on paid development costs
- 7.1 dev costs estimated to be approx $ 31k (lower than budgeted)
- 7.2 approved up to 2.0 FTE $ 63,000
- 7.3 approved up to 2.0 FTE up to $ 84,000 (likely less)
| Laurie Arp, Kristi Park |
| 6 | 15 min | SCOSS update | DSpace was selected as one of three open source infrastructure projects endorsed in SCOSS's latest funding call, which began this fall. More about SCOSS: https://scoss.org/how-it-works/current-funding-calls/ | Michele Mennielli |
| 7 | 20 min | Product Visioning Working Group update: Preview of draft recommendations | Reference: DSpace Product Visioning Group | Scott Hanrath |
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| Any other business, as time allows | Opportunities for serving on working groups/interest groups |
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