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Developers Meeting before OR11 on Mon, June 6, 2011
Face-to-face developer's meeting on topic of DSpace RoadMap just before Open Repositories 2011 in Austin, Texas.
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Much more information is available on the OR11 Preconference Events page.
Who is invited?
- All Committers,
- All DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) members,
- Any other interested DSpace developers or technology-savvy individuals
If you don't fall into one of the above categories, you are still welcome to attend. However, be warned that discussion will likely get very technical at times (which is why we recommend you be a developer or have a technology background).
Space is limited. Please sign up on the Sign Up sheet below. If we begin to achieve capacity, preference will be given to Committers or DCAT Members. However, we welcome any interested DSpace developers to join us and take part in the discussion!
Logistics
- Day: Monday, June 6th, 2011
- Time: 9am-4pm
- Where: Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL), Room 1.339
- Walking Directions (< 1/2 mile) from AT&T Conference Center
- More information from OR11 Organizers on Getting to your PreConference Building/Room
- Attendance Limit: 30 people maximum
- Lunch is NOT provided, but there are lunch options in the area: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/or11preconference/ut-austin-information/pre-conference-lunch-options/
Note on Accommodations
If you're planning on staying at the OR conference hotel, be advised that the conference rate of $129/night is only available from June 7th onward. The OR11 website accommodations page has a list of alternative hotels you may wish to choose from for the nights of June 5th and 6th.
General Agenda
Format of Meeting
This meeting will be organized as a group discussion. Although at times one or more of us may lead discussion sections, it is meant to be a group discussion and not a series of presentations (in fact, at this time there are no plans for any presentations / slides).
Agenda: (NOTE: This agenda is flexible, and based on discussions throughout day is subject to change)
9:00am: Introductions, Overview of Day
- Introductions
- Suggestions for agenda changes?
9:20ish : Brainstorming Activity
- To be announced
10:15ish : Break
10:30am : Brief updates/discussions on Upcoming/Ongoing Work
- Google Summer of Code (GSOC) updates
- Updates on "Fedora Inside" work
- Updates on DSpace 1.8.0 planning
- Other brief updates?
11:15ish : Final Decision on a Version Numbering Scheme
- Discussion & Final Decision on whether we want to change our version numbering scheme (i.e. Do we want to continue with incrementing version numbers or move to something else?) |
Noon: Lunch Break & Recommended Discussion
- Thoughts on interaction/collaboration between DCAT & Committers? Community outreach in general?
1:30pm: Open Discussion Period (Doodle Poll of Topics)
- We will discuss "hot topics" decided by all of us
- A portion of this period will be left completely "unscheduled", so that we have flexibility to discuss other topics that come up.
2:45ish: Break
3pm: Summarizing & Bringing it all Together
- Revisiting 1.8.0 Planning.
- What do we see as our Technology RoadMap/Goals for next few years? What can we 'vote on' and approve?
- Approve a general DSpace 2011-2012 Technology RoadMap
4:00ish: End Meeting & Depart for Pub
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Possible Topics for "Open Discussion" period:
- Creating a Common Business Logic Tier (share business logic between each of the UIs, rather than each UI building its own separate business logic)
- Enhancing Metadata Support (how can we enhance metadata support? what metadata should we work to support more in future?). Related discussions:
- Updating to current DCMI standards: DS-805
- Creating a new "dspace" internal usage schema (for administrative or non-DC metadata)? Formalize the "dc" schema to be strictly valid QDC/DC?
- Metadata on all DSpace objects (not just Items)
- Modularization activities & Async discussions (how can we better modularize DSpace and move towards a "plugin" framework, what would be requirements, etc.) Related Discussions:
- Restructure Trunk Projects
- Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model
- Asynchronous Release
- Asynchronous Release - Alternative Option
- Also discussions about whether to "split" up our "Modules SVN area" into three groups: "Sandbox Modules", "Core/Fully Supported Modules", "Extension Modules"
- Documentation Management Team & ongoing Documentation mgmt in general
- Related discussions around whether we should create a "Documentation Management" team or a team of 'editors' to help clean up docs and improve management of them. This team of "editors" may provide some basic approval for Docs changes, and would also "lean on" committers when necessary to ensure new features are fully documented, etc.
- Anything "annoyingly obsolete" (technology wise) we really need to address soon?
- REST API or other important projects that may need "one last push" for official release.
- More General Discussion/Brainstorming of DSpace RoadMap (though entire meeting is generally related to this overarching topic)
- See Proposed RoadMap to 2.0 for some very early RoadMap ideas/brainstorms.
Informal Evening Meet-Up
As usual, after the meeting, there will be an informal meet-up somewhere in town for anyone who wants to go out for dinner or drinks. Similar to last year, we are planning to coordinate evening events with the Fedora Developers, so that we can all meet up and intermingle. Details are still forthcoming, and will be posted here as we get closer to OR11.
Sign Up to Attend!
If you're planning to attend this meeting, please add your name to the sign up sheet. Also, please add a note as to your general availability that day (e.g. "available all day", "available PM only", etc.).
Sign Up Sheet - Will Be Attending
- Tim Donohue – available all day
- Valorie Hollister -- available all day (although going between DSpace/Fedora committer mtgs)
- Scott Phillips - available all day
- Imma Subirats - not sure of availability yet, most probably PM
- Mark Diggory - should be available all day at this point.
- Mark H. Wood – available all day
- Keith Gilbertson -- available all day
- Richard Rodgers - available all day
- Stuart Lewis - available all day
- Kim Shepherd - available all day
- Elin Stangeland - available all day
- Graham Triggs - available all day (ish)
- Jonathan Markow - available from late morning on
- Benoit Pauwels - available all day
- Andrea Schweer - available all day
- Jonathan Amburn - available all day
- Robin Taylor - available all day
- Sarah Shreeves - available all day
- Richard Jones - available all day
- Bram Luyten (Atmire) - available all day
- Bradley McLean
- Adam Field - most of the day, depending on jetlag
- ~pottingerhj@umsystem.edu - available all day
- Kazu Yamaji - available all day
- Kei Kurakawa - available all day
Want To Attend / May Be Attending
- add your name
Will Not Be Attending
- Peter Dietz - at home, expecting a baby any time.