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.
Developers Meeting before OR10 on Mon, July 5, 2010
If you have items to add to the agenda, or have questions, please contact Tim Donohue.
Logistics
- Location: UNED (the University), Facultad de Humanidades (Room B)
- Google Map: Edificio de Humanidades - UNED
- How to Get There: (copied from info provided in above Google Map):
- From Moncloa: 15/20 mins nice walk through the "Parque del Oeste"
- Metro + bus :
- Metro "Moncloa" + Bus: 160, 161 o "A" (all Stops at Avenida de Séneca)
- Metro "Príncipe Pío " + Bus 46 (Stop: Senda del Rey - Obispo Trejo, in front of "Facultad de Derecho")
- Time: We have a room from 9:30am until 6:00pm. We can choose when to start/end. Tentatively, we were scheduled for 12pm-6pm.
- Other Items of Interest:
- Fedora Committers will be meeting in same building (they are meeting 10am-6pm). No joint meeting planned on Mon, but we will have opportunities to introduce ourselves/socialize both at lunch and at the bar/tapas in evening.
- Lunch will be provided (1pm-2pm)
- Will break to bar & tapas in afternoon/evening
- May be provided coffee breaks? (Tim will check into it)
- NOTE: This meeting will directly conflict with PASIG. PASIG is 8:30am-5pm on Monday
Suggested Topics to Discuss
Very tentative list of topics – please add to the list if you have suggestions
- DSpace RoadMap planning – led by Tim Donohue
- Includes Fedora integration discussions / brainstorming: DSpace-Fedora Integration FAQ
- SWORD Project's next steps?? – led by Stuart Lewis? or perhaps Richard Jones?
- DSpace 2.0 Integration Projects – led by Mark Diggory (subprojects to be presented by other devs where appropriate)
- Overview of DSpace Addon Module Design and Spring
- Discussion of Storage Services and Storage Providers as an addition to 1.7
- Discussion on Solr Integration and Unified Search/Browse as an addition to 1.7
- GSoC updates/discussion – led by Mark Diggory
- Dspace source distributions - what should/shouln't be included.
- Feature planning for DSpace 1.7 – Peter Dietz
- Interacting more with DSpace Community Outreach Group via a new Community Advisory Team – Val Hollister
General Agenda
Although there are specific times listed, we can rearrange sessions a bit as necessary. The times are more to help make sure we get around to discussing all topics.
12-1pm : Intros, Overview & Brief Updates
- Intros & Overview
- Past reflection on 1.6.x releases:
- What have we learned?
- What went well, what could we improve?
- GSoC project updates (Mark Diggory)
- Other updates?
1-2pm
- Lunch is provided
2-3:15pm : Discussion of Current/Ongoing Projects
- 2.0 integration work (Mark Diggory)
- Overview of DSpace Addon Module Design and Spring
- Discussion of Storage Services and Storage Providers as an addition to 1.7
- Discussion on Solr Integration and Unified Search/Browse as an addition to 1.7
- AipBackupRestorePrototype / DuraCloud integration project (DuraSpace & MIT & IUPUI) (Tim Donohue)
~3:15pm - Break
3:30-4:45pm : Discussion of RoadMap for Future
- Fedora integration proposal (Tim Donohue)
- 1.7 planning (what's in it?)
- Longer-Term Questions:
- Source / binary distributions (what should/shouldn't be included?)
- Should all webapps/UIs remain out of the box? (JSPUI, XMLUI, OAI, SWORD, LNI, SOLR)
- How do we make upgrades/installs/configuration easier?
~4:45pm - Break
5-6pm : Discussion of Integrations / Communications with others
- SWORD updates (Stuart Lewis? or Richard Jones?)
- Community Advisory Team (Val Hollister & Tim Donohue)
~6pm
- Head to bar (with Fedora Committers) for Beer/Sangria/Tapas
Attendance / Availability
- Tim Donohue – available all day.
- Stuart Lewis – available all day.
- Claudia Jürgen - not attending the OR10
- Robin Taylor - not arriving until mid-afternoon.
- Andrea Bollini - arriving at 3pm
- Peter Dietz – available all day.
- Keith Gilbertson – available all day.
- Graham Triggs - available all day.
- Richard Jones - will try to make it to the meeting at some point in the afternoon
- Richard Rodger – available all day.