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
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 Metro stop: 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: Meeting is scheduled from 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)
- We will break to bar & tapas around 6pm
- Supposedly there are coffee / snacks to be had nearby (and we will take breaks to re-energizer)
- NOTE: This meeting directly conflicts 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 – our meeting "ground rules"
- 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 & DSpace Global Outreach Committee (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 Rodgers – available all day.
- Mark Diggory – available all day.
- Ben Bosman – available in afternoon.
- Brad McLean – will join in afternoon.
- Val Hollister – will join for most/all of day.