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Item | Who | Notes |
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Upcoming communications - Beta 3 may be released this month
- Other communications?
| Heather, Carol | |
Planning for DSpace 7 final release: Tim confirmed that testathon will happen as it has in past releases. That will provide some amount of time to create materials and have them translated in preparation for a release at the same time. - Where do we start in creating a workflow for this process?
- What can this group do now, and what do we need others to do?
| Heather, Carol | - National User Group coordinators will assist in making the release truly global
- Translations and timing on hold because the final release date is unknown
- Translating important wiki content into Spanish is underway by the Spanish-speaking user group
- What language plug-ins are available for the wiki?
- Plug-ins are available and can be installed
- This article from Nov 2019 comes from the Atlassian support pages
- https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-can-i-translate-confluence-page-content-345637421.html
- Glossary pages are needed to support translations
Testathons are scheduled about 2 weeks before release (varies) - Need to consider how to use the DSpace 7 endorsements we collected
- Encourage upgrades of current DSpace 6 to DSpace 7. Could we launch a communication campaign, who could we reach?
- Possible opportunity to look for an upgrade to 6 migration grant
- Long timeline; bring to internal DSpace meetings
- Catalyst Fund application process has concluded for 2020
- Possible promotion of Cat Fund to DSpace community for 2021 for innovative DSpace uses
- Campaign for upgrade to 6 inappropriate at this time
- Possible source for immediate migration from early versions of DSpace to 6 or 7 funding: https://www.imls.gov/grants/apply-grant/notices-funding-opportunities
- General upgrade to DSpace 6 campaign so that you can easily upgrade to DSpace 7?
- Upgrade to DSpace 6 is a good way to prepare for DSpace 7
- Users likely to wait for DSpace 7
- Many issues: languages and more
- DSpace 6.4 is a good and stable release but UI advances are limited Carol Minton Morris Heather Greer Kleinto work on announcement
- Providers could put an upgrade "package" together?
- Unlikely, existing customizations are an issue with upgrades, expensive
- How to help users wrap their brains around the new UI possibilities?
- Possible DSpace 7 implementation stumbling block.
- What needs to be considered philosophically?
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Spanish User Group report, wiki translation project | Mic |
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Other business, news to share | All | |
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