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
- Jose Carvalho
- Heather Greer Klein (LYRASIS)
- Michele Mennielli (LYRASIS)
- Kristi Park
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Meeting Details
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/heather.klein
Background
- Marketing Strategy Report from 2015: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L66WSPTqJZRmTIweTljDq7oeksTL-av4/view?usp=sharing
Discussion items
Item | Who | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Good news! | Between 130-150 synchronous participants for all sessions; program reached more than 220 all together; financial support for continuing DSpace 7 beta releases requested views of recordings are enormous CNI also running conf virtually; restricted attendance so could be simpler | |
| Beta 2 update: expected in early April | A bit late in early April On track Struggling with pull requests; would like to take a pause for planning How to communicate this Spreading out work for communicating releases? Workflow begins with Tim's email to the community at large; content is then edited for general distribution Beta 2 will include Management of versioning; workflow management (eye catchers) Agreement that release communications should begin with Tim Bram video | |
Discussion of upcoming messaging to the community: what messaging do we need, and when? Messaging discussed in the last Leadership meeting:
| Kristi, all | Fundraising, some success past 100k mark Using milestone to get the word out, celebrate, weveryone can participate 3 ways to support DSpace: become a member; test and join developers meetings; community contributions Broad bandwidth of ways to contribute; holistic message; need options Help to reach out to bronze level members; existing members to increaae donation? Kristi suggests 2 separate messages: public announcement celebratory reaching out to lower level members Zoom call reaching out to specific members/years at specific levels; benefit of membership ACTION: Michele Mennielli Timing late April/May Include those who have contributed, Laurie Link $$ to specific contributions? Money is immediately invested in development; goal is 300k Some indication that service providers are prioritizing DSpace 7 work Timing, schedule of messages for review by this group, Heather Greer Klein Need to be proactive in communication about the "pause"; clear the backlog Tim needs more help; yet another type of communication targeted at low level tech help; should be targeted using national user groups |
| Update from Mic: communication with the DSpace user groups, overall outreach strategy for building the DSpace Community - "Repositories in a time of crisis" webinar series | Mic | DSpace workshop was planned for COAR https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ubt_GWiObQ6czdgFqjLfhYgp-SNjR8zzQThmybaXemc/edit?pli=1 Replacement: Series of video presentations translated; 1 preso per day; distribute over more than a week; use videos to pitch for more participation; "Repositories in a time of Crisis" discussion of how institutions are dealing with the crisis; "Repositories in a time of Crisis" webinar series–engage community members in this sries to talk about their ideas on this topic; reaching out to all national coordinators to have a cross-country coordinator meeting. Messaging should include basic value of sharing through repos; crucial role of the repos Transform the now defunct DSpace ambassador program into a program of the national UG coordinators: DSpace Ambassador Program Webinar series asap Carol Minton Morris |
| Other business, news to share | All | |
| FYI: Upcoming virtual conference, Heather will be presenting a DSpace 7 overview on April 24th (session not yet on the website): https://lib.usm.edu/smirc/ |
Action items
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Overview
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