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Proposed Meeting Agenda


  1. News
    1. Welcome to our 9 new members! (full team)
      1. Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
      2. Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
      3. Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
      4. Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
      5. Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
      6. Bram Luyten - @mire
      7. Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
      8. Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
      9. Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
    2. DSpace 1.7.1 release - bug fix release (no new features, just resolves issues found in 1.7.0)
      1. resolves a medium-level security issue found in 1.7.0 (see DS-858)
      2. fully supports Oracle databases
      3. resolves several SWORD-related bugs 
      4. some other minor issues were resolved - for a full list, please see the 1.7.1 Release Notes and Version History
    3. DSpace 1.8
      1. target date for Oct 2011
      2. Robin Taylor - release coordinator
      3. what might be included: 1.8.0 Release Notes
    4. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
      2. DSpace committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after
    5. Other news?
      1. OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
      2. Nepal, Thailand and Laos -- how did the FAO training in Laos in March go?
  2. e-Forum
    1. participation low in last e-Forum
    2. SPARC's new e-forum on "subject repository development and success" - overlap?
  3. New feature review process
    1. Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
      1. What it is:
        1. group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community 
        2. facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
        3. possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
        4. collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
      2. What it is not:
        1. a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
        2. having discussions just to have discussions
    2. Process overview
    3. Future discussion schedule
  4. Update on previously reviewed items
    1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
    2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA - Elin currently working w/Robin to understanding the curation framework, and investigating/figure out a next steps
    3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA - Jim says it is ready for community wide discussion, he will schedule
  5. Meeting Attendees:
    1.  Bram Luyten, Michael Guthrie, Iryna Kuchma, Tim Donohue, Ciarán Walsh, Valorie Hollister, Elin Stangeland, Jim Ottaviani, Imma Subraits

NEXT MEETING ON MAY 5, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT

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