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Goal
The primary goals of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) are to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace Committer group in producing software releases. The DCAT is a reconstituted version of it's predecessor, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee.
Activities
The following are a list of potential activities for the team members. Team members will help develop and refine priorities as necessary. Estimated time for each team member is around 5-10 hours a month. For more details about the new feature request review process, click here.
- Attend monthly team teleconferences
- Review JIRA new feature requests, provide draft of recommendations and lead DCAT discussion on the request
- Provide feedback in JIRA about specific new feature requests
- Facilitate community-wide discussions on selected new feature requests - flesh out minimum requirements and potential project team / stakeholders and developers
- Collaborate on other project, tools, resources which serve the community
- Help to organize user group meetings
- Network regularly with other DSpace users in country/region
- Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best practices
- Periodically attend the DSpace Committers meetings
- Survey community (archived surveys)
Meetings
The team meets once a month via a conference call. The purpose of the meeting is primarily to share news/information and refine our review process. Most of the work of DCAT takes place outside the meeting, so if there are members who cannot attend either meeting they can still contribute significantly to the DCAT efforts.
For more information and meeting notes visit DCAT Meeting Notes.
Mailing List
Members of DCAT use a Google Group mailing list for their communications. Anyone from the community is welcome to join.
Team Members
Team members are volunteers from the world-wide DSpace user community. Members will be primarily made up of individuals who function as DSpace repository managers at their institution and have interest in advancing the DSpace software, developing resources/tools for DSpace users and as well as expanding the user community network world-wide. The team aims to have representatives from variety of countries/regions in order to provide broad support the DSpace user community.
@Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
Bram Luyten (Atmire) - @mire
Bharat Chaudhari - School Of Petroleum Management, Gandhinagar, India
Ciaran Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
@Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
Elin Stangeland - University of Oslo
@Felicity A Dykas - University of Missouri
Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
James Evans - Biomed Central/Open Repository
Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
@Kathleen Schweitzberger - University of Missouri
Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland
Lilly Li, Texas A&M University
Unknown User (mpwalsh) - The Ohio State University
@Roger Weaver - University of Missouri
Sarah Molloy - Queen Mary, University of London
Sarah Potvin - Texas A&M University
Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
Yan Han - DuraSpace
Valorie Hollister - University of Arizona Libraries
More information
For more information about DCAT, please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollister at duraspace.org.