The notes from the DGOC September 7 meeting are available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+September+7%2C+2010. The next meeting will be on October 5. Please see my previous post below for additional information. Feel free to contact me with any questions or feedback.
Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace [email protected] Begin forwarded message: > From: Valorie Hollister <[email protected]> > Date: September 3, 2010 1:49:37 PM EDT > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Global Outreach Update > > 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] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd_______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
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