Membership Updates:

• No updates (0 members gained / lost since July 2025)
• Total of 123 Members (60 direct, 63 via Consortia) for 2025-26

Governance:

• New Chair and Vice Chair in place
• The Leadership meeting schedule has been altered to allow for 2 weeks between Steering and Leadership meetings (exception: November 2025)
• Leadership Onboarding Meeting was held on Monday, Nov 17: Slide Deck

Annual Report:

• Holger has asked Leadership for feedback via email. Please provide your input by Tuesday, Nov 25 (EOD)

Development: 

• Team is working on general planning for 10.0, but is highly dependent on a decision regarding the potential merger.  That said, we are reviewing two ports of DSpace-CRIS features to DSpace (Audit Framework & emails to fixed recipients) which are merger independent.

DCAT: 

• Kent Gerber please add anything you'd like to add here

Outreach: 

• New Governance Seating and Election Video: Holger has asked Leadership for feedback via email. Please provide your input by Tuesday, Nov 25 (EOD)
• National User Group Events
  • Polish National User Group Meeting: Nov 24-26 in Krakow
  • Czech National User Group Meeting: Dec 2 in Brno
  • German National User Group Meeting (Praxistreffen): March 10-11 in Lüneburg
• PCG Academia is planning an event in May 2026 on repositories, there will be a National UG meeting and possibly participants from neighboring countries
• Open Repositories: Call for proposals now open; hard deadline: January 11, 2026

National User Groups events guidelines:

• there is now a wiki page in the National User Groups section dedicated to event's guidelines for any UG Coordinator interested in planning an event: Guidelines for DSpace National User Group Events

Org Home:

• Technical Support Engineer search: First-round interviews wrapping up (8 candidates in this round). Will be (or are already) reaching out to the full search committee to schedule the finalist interviews in the next couple of weeks.
• Interoperability project: Jess Farrell has been invited to the Leadership meeting on Nov 19 to present the project goals, timelines, approach, and to solicit input on the best ways to involve the DSpace community.

Background: Bridget's email to Leadership dated Nov 13, 2025 containing the Q1 Financial Statements

Overview of DSpace's 2025-26 Q1 Financial Report

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Background: Email from Holger to Leadership dated Nov 13, 2025 containing: 

• Strategy Planning Group Report
• Technology Planning Group Report
• Recommendations from Steering to Leadership

Presentation of Summary and Highlights  

Questions, Comments?

Vote on Potential Merger of DSpace & DSpace-CRIS

Questions, Feedback and Discussion