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Beate announced in the chat the Hamburg University of Technology has been awarded a Technical Integration Grant from the ORCID Global Participation Fund. This will be used to improve the ORCID login process in DSpace-CRIS, which may benefit all of the DSpace community. 4Science will be the developer. Susanna considered this a good example of getting outside funding for specific development tasks.

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Kristi supported this idea, although she has been thinking more about virtual events. These could be a bit less about technology, with more emphasis on what the community is doing and how DSpace is being used in different organizations. There should be a small working group for coordinating things. It was decided that a group consisting of Kristi, Natalie, Isabel, Michele and Susan Susanna will start planning for community events.

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Beate mentioned that DSpace Praxistreffen will be organized in person in March for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.

There was some discussion on whether there should be a mechanism for donating smaller amounts of money to DSpace. There was some talk whether it might be possible to have a voluntary participation fee for DSpace events. However, this didn’t receive support from the Leadership members as it was argued that this might lead to communication problems.

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