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The DSpace Steering Group provides leadership and sets strategic direction for DSpace software. They make decisions around the allocation of all DSpace revenue and oversee project operations.

MembershipGroup Members:

• Steering Group members have a set term limit (more info coming soon), and are elected by the DSpace Leadership Group.
  
• Ex-officio members:
  • Chair of DSpace Product Planning Team
  • Chair of DSpace Technology Team (i.e. DSpace Technical Lead)
  • Chair of DSpace Community Advisory Team

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The Leadership Group elects members of the Steering Group from the DSpace Membership.

MembershipGroup Members:

• The Leadership Group is a subset of the overall DSpace Members (more details to be provided), selected based on their level of contribution to DSpace.

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• Create / Refresh the DSpace Product Plan / Product Roadmap and present to Steering Group for approval (Yearly activity)
• Refresh High Level Vision (in conjunction with DCAT and Technology Planning Group) once every three years

MembershipGroup Members:

• Members are selected from the DSpace Community Advisory Team and DSpace Technology Planning Group.  More details forthcoming.

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• Advise on technical implementation options based on prioritized use cases (from DCAT) and/or the proposed product plan (from Product Planning Group).
• For larger scale project, research and prototype specific technical implementation options, or lead implementation subgroups to perform those investigations
• Create / refresh the Implementation Plan / Technical Roadmap on a yearly basis

MembershipGroup Members:

• Chair: DSpace Technical Lead
• Members are selected from the Committers group by the Technical Lead and the Committers. Members should have some time dedicated to Technology Planning from their workplace (amount TBD).
• Community Contributors (non-Committers) may be selected to this group by a vote of the Committers.

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• Maintain the codebase. They are the only individuals who can actively change/commit to the codebase
• Review all code contributions/changes to ensure stability, etc (see Code Contribution Guidelines).  They are the only individuals who can merge/accept community code contributions.
• Help to resolve bugs or security issues within codebase
• Help to provide ongoing support to community developers and users (via IRC, mailing lists, etc.)
• Perform and manage new releases based on the Implementation Plan / Technical Roadmap (from the Technology Planning Group).

MembershipGroup Members:

• Chair: DSpace Technical Lead
• The Committers group is a meritocracy. Any community member or Committer can nominate someone for Committership. However, an individual only becomes a Committer after they have been voted in by the existing Committers. For more information see Committer Nominations.

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