Dear DSpace Community -
As many of you are aware, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is a
group of volunteers from the DSpace community who work to identify or develop
resources and tools for DSpace users, as well as to advance the user community
network world-wide.
The DGOC has been hard at work this year on various projects, the most recent
of which was the collaboration with DSpace committers to develop a session at
OR10 specifically designed for repository managers. The session was extremely
well received and recordings and/or copies of the slides will be available
soon. In May, the DGOC launched the new and improved DSpace user registry
database
(http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_formdashboard&Itemid=151&lang=en)
which allows the community to not just see who uses DSpace, but provides a
search and filter functions which enable users to find other institutions which
may have similar repositories and environments to their own.
Over the past several months, the DGOC has also been exploring ways to get more
members of community involved in the software release process. There were some
good discussions and proposals
(https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposals#Proposals-ReleaseCycle%2FProcessProposals)
which resulted in agreement from the committer group to have a more formalized
group or process to help facilitate broader community assistance and feedback
in the release process. The intention is that this process will provide support
to the release coordinator, as well as allow for more non-techies to take an
active part in the evolution of the software. A logical place to incubate some
of these ideas is with the DGOC. To that end, the DGOC plans to begin to help
the committers review new feature requests in JIRA
(http://jira.dspace.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&type=2&status=1&status=3&status=4&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC).
Part of this process will include encouraging and facilitating discussions
about specific feature ideas with the community through the general mailing
list. The hope is that more people will participate in determining the
relevancy of the feature requests as well as assist in defining the
requirements of a request.
To make all of the DGOC efforts more transparent to the community, the monthly
DGOC meetings are now open to anyone who wants to attend. We welcome anyone in
the community to join the meetings, but due to space limitations on our
teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at
[email protected] in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call.
For more information about the meetings, including all the archived meeting
notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+Meeting+Notes.
Our next meeting is scheduled for September 7 and the proposed agenda can be
found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+September+7%2C+2010
Membership to the DGOC is open to anyone in the DSpace community. You can read
more about the group here:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte. For
anyone interested in talking about the DGOC and how you can get involved,
please feel free to contact me at any time. Likewise if you have any feedback
or questions about DGOC efforts I'd love to hear from you.
Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Development, DSpace Project
DuraSpace
[email protected]
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