Meeting Agenda
Due to capacity constraints on the teleconference line, if you plan to attend the meeting please email Valorie Hollister at vhollister[at]duraspace.org in advance to ensure their will be space. This month's meeting will occur Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 9:00am Eastern/14:00 GMT. For dial in instructions, click here.
News
- Welcome to our 6 new members!
- Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
- Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
- Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
- Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
- Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
- Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
- DSpace 1.7 promotion
- Next major DSpace release
- Oct 2011
- what might be included: release notes
- e-Forum on March 23-24: Collaborating with contributors: "Project workflows" hosted by Alice Platt
- need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
- future topic suggestions?
- statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
- copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
- citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
- upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
- Documentation Mgmt Team
- useful info from mailing list - procedure to get answers from mailing list to wiki docs or in a FAQ/discussion forum: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/DSpace+Documentation
- Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
- DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
- DSpace committer mtg on either Mon June 6 or Tues June 7 - joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour afterwards?
- Other news?
- Welcome to our 6 new members!
New feature review process
- 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.
- What it is:
- group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community
- 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
- possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
- collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
- What it is not:
- a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
- having discussions just to have discussions
- What it is:
- Process overview
- Future discussion schedule
- 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.
Update on previously reviewed items
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA
- DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
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