Meeting Agenda
Due to capacity constraints on the teleconference line, if you plan to attend the meeting please email Valorie Hollister at vhollister[at]duraspace.org in advance to ensure their will be space. This month's meeting will occur at 3:00 pm Eastern Standard / 20:00 UTC/GMT. For dial in instructions, click here.
News
- DSpace 1.7 promotion
- e-Forum Jan 20-21 "Is DSpace 1.7 on your roadmap?" - hosted by Alice Platt
- Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011 - have Fedora mtg chair, very close on DSpace mtg chair
- Other news?
New name, new focus
- team name
- since we've evolved our primary purpose (help w/reviewing JIRA requests and facilitating community discussions) we've resolved to retire DGOC (served it's purpose over the last few years working on big projects)
- current group members will now join the "Community Advisor Team" or CAT-->with new focus on facilitating discussions on new feature requests
- meeting/s time - only one time per month
- moving to only one live mtg time a month - top allow for more dynamic discussions: alternate time each month - 9am/14:00 or 3pm/20:00
- participation
- resolved that we would do the bulk of our new feature reviews outside the mtg
- each week, 1 CAT member will start discussion amongst CAT about a JIRA issue of their choice - summarize issue and proposed CAT recommendations for feedback
- other CAT members make comments asynchronously
- CAT issue discussion leader for that wk will post summary to JIRA issue and, if issue ranks as highly relevant/broad community interest and high priority the issue will be taken to the broader DSpace community for full discussion - confirming interest, outlining requirements, soliciting those interest in working on project
- resolved that we would do the bulk of our new feature reviews outside the mtg
- proposed mtg together w/cmtrs at OR11 - join their cmtr mtg
- team name
Recruiting new members
- currently looking new members, particularly in Europe or Asia
JIRA Review CAT Discussion Schedule for January
- Jan 3-7: Jim Ottaviani
- Jan 10-14: Elin Stangeland
NEXT MEETING ON FEBRUARY 1, 2011 AT 9AM/14:00 GMT