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)

Accessibility:

• Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT) for versions 7.6.5, 8.2, and 9.1 now published on the DSpace website (Monday, Nov 17, 2025)
• Updates:
  • WCAG 2.x Level A 3.2.2 changed from "Partially Supports" to "Supports"
  • Section 508 Chapter 5 504 Authoring Tools: Section has been changed from "Does Not Support" to "Not Applicable"

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: 

• Held first meeting of the governance year with new Chair on November 18. Will continue regular schedule of meeting on the second Tuesday of the month.

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 neighbouring countries
• Open Repositories: Call for proposals now open; hard deadline: January 11, 2026
• A new Consortium Member might be formed by the end of 2025-Jan 2026 in Poland. It should be a Platinum Member. If this is the case, the new Platinum Member will have a guaranteed seat in the Governance and able to join the Leadership Meeting in February 2026. It happened already in the past with Concytec which joined as a Platinum member a few months after the beginning of the Term
• DSpace Deep Dive Webinar: Matomo Analytics in DSpace
  • Date: December 9, 2025 – Registration Link forthcoming

Partnerships:

• LA Referencia Q3 Report on DSpace activities in Latin America is available and can be found here

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: We have three finalists for the position after first round interviews of seven candidates. The finalist interviews will be held between December 1 and 8 and we hope to be able to make an offer before the December holidays.

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