Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
- Carol Minton Morris (LYRASIS, co-chair)
- Bram Luyten (Atmire)
- Susanna Mornati (4Science)
- Pascal-Nicolas Becker (The Library Code, co-chair)
- David Corbly
Unavailable:
Tim Donohue(LYRASIS)- Heather Greer Klein (LYRASIS)
The represents who will be taking notes for a given meeting. It rotates after each meeting to the next person in the attendee list.
Meeting Details
- October 2, 2019 at 9:00 AM EDT
Please note new url: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/666857170
Background
- Marketing Strategy Report from 2015: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L66WSPTqJZRmTIweTljDq7oeksTL-av4/view?usp=sharing
Discussion items
Item | Who | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Leadership supports no longer providing dates for the release timeline. What pages need to be updated? | Dates have been changed more than 40 times; great number of institutions counting on release of DSpace 7; no precise dates but turn into a positive message Focus on astable and high quality release DSpace 7 page on web site Status page on wiki, who updates? Bram to update, this group to review by 10/11/19 Section on release schedule/timeline Try to include positive messages Tim's slides from OR had lots of information about the impact and importance of this release, perhaps use some of this info in pivot message | |
| Upcoming blog posts, messaging | Develop a communication package to the larger community about this pivot Google doc by 10/11/19, Carol DSpace 6 is a very good stable version to work with --migration procedures in place Community is supporting last 3 versions, plenty of time and support to work with past versions Older versions will continue to be supported DSpace 6 compatible with Java 11? | |
| "Adopt a feature" idea | Susanna | NADSUG meeting–when estimates are ready perhaps developers will "adopt a feature" or perhaps an institution would pay for a discreet feature feedback from DSUG was positive Parts of budgets have not yet been spent in 2019 Step 1, LYRASIS management question, Carol to ask Bram has had similar convos with atmire clients, if all of funds are not earmarked in last 3 months, working with existing contracts may be easier End of year may be too soon to begin a new fundraising campaign Does not need to be concluded by end of 2019 Need an agreement by end of 2019, does not need to be concluded/paid Adding features to DSpace 7 requires code review, cannot promise that any feature will be implemented exactly as imagined, really selling R & D time, monthly updates/accountability to sponsor may be required, very hard as a deliverable, will depend on how complex the feature is, features are interdependent idea of "adopting" is a contribution-type idea to the community effort "Adopt" is not control over feature Community makes features available ultimately Off topic but related: Minor releases are less attractive as fundraising benefits/incentives Minor release of say DSpace 5, would LYRASIS be able to give an RSP recognition for coordinating a minor release? Finding more active committers after release of DSpace 7 |
| 3 endorsers! | Bram, Pascal, Susanna | 3 now: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Goal+2%3A+Identify+and+promote+endorsing+institutions |
Action items
Item | Who |
|---|---|
| Update DSpace 7 page on wiki by 10/4/19 DSpace Release 7.0 Status | Bram, for review by all |
| Message for wide distribution to the larger community about the DSpace 7 scheduling pivot, google doc by 10/11/19, Carol | Carol, for review by all |
| Carol will work with Bram every month to develop a story about features that have been developed for DS7 | |
Start releasing information about milestones as they are met, to show the progress currently being made each week. | |
| Keep looking for endorsers and considering what the ask is for the campaign – what will they do to respond? | |
| Carol will keep the group informed about the combining of the web presence into LYRASIS |
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