Dear DSpace Community -
Would you like to get involved in the new feature development process for
DSpace? Would you like to learn more about the DSpace release process? Would
you like to expand your network and connections in the DSpace community? The
DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is currently seeking new members from the
DSpace user community.
The primary goals of DCAT is to help review and facilitate community-wide
discussions about new feature requests and to provide support to the DSpace
Committer group in producing software releases.
The main activities of DCAT are:
Review JIRA new feature requests, provide draft of recommendations and lead
DCAT discussion on the request
Provide feedback in JIRA about specific new feature requests
Facilitate community-wide discussions on selected new feature requests - flesh
out minimum requirements and potential project team / stakeholders and
developers
Attend monthly DCAT teleconferences
Collaborate on other project, tools, resources which serve the community
Help to organize user group meetings
Network regularly with other DSpace users in country/region
Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best
practices
Periodically attend the weekly DSpace Committers meetings
DCAT members will help develop and refine priorities as necessary. Estimated
time for each team member is around 5-10 hours a month.
Most of the DCAT work takes place outside of the monthly meeting -- so members
who are unable to attend the meeting regularly can still contribute
significantly to the DCAT efforts. The team meets on the 1st Tuesday of every
month via a conference call, alternating times every month between 9:00am
Eastern/14:00 GMT or 3:00pm Eastern/20:00 GMT to accommodate those in different
time zones. The purpose of the meeting is primarily to share news/information
and refine our review process.
DCAT members are volunteers from the world-wide DSpace user community. Members
will be primarily made up of individuals who function as DSpace repository
managers at their institution and have an interest in advancing the DSpace
software, developing resources/tools for DSpace users and as well as expanding
the user community network world-wide. The team aims to have representatives
from variety of countries/regions in order to provide broad support the DSpace
user community.
For more information about DCAT, please see the message below or visit the wiki
(https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team).
Please feel free to contact me directly if you are interested in learning more
or if you would like to become a member of DCAT.
Best regards -
Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Programs
DuraSpace
vhollis...@duraspace.org
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Valorie Hollister <vhollis...@duraspace.org>
> Date: January 26, 2011 4:44:16 PM EST
> To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Meeting Needs: New DSpace Open Source Feature Review Process
>
> Apologies for the cross-posting -
>
> Ithaca, NY Many in the DSpace community are aware of the DSpace Global
> Outreach Committee's (DGOC) efforts over the past few years. With the
> guidance and support of the DuraSpace organization, the DGOC has developed
> several resources for the community. Most recently the launch of the monthly
> e-forum hosted last week by Alice Platt, was designed by DGOC member Ronee
> Francis. The most notably DGOC project was the expanded user registry, which
> provides a browse/search of the DSpace user community database based on
> various criteria. The DGOC has also helped to pull together some of the large
> DSpace user group meetings. For more about the DGOC accomplishments, you can
> visit their wiki page.
>
> Development Proccess Proposals
> Last summer in collaboration with the DSpace Committers, the DGOC authored a
> proposal for a new community group that would have more direct involvement
> with the DSpace development process. As agreed to by the Committers, the goal
> of the new group would be to
>
> 1) Provide the community an opportunity to have direct input on new features
> in future DSpace releases
>
> 2) Provide support to the Committer group in producing releases
>
> More information about the various proposals are available on the wiki.
>
> DGOC Transition
> Over the past few months the DGOC has been working on behalf of the community
> and the Committers to design a process to facilitate the above goals. In this
> effort, it became clear that while the DGOC's previous activities centered
> around community resource development, that the biggest need in the community
> was helping to facilitate the development process. As a result, rather than
> start another seperate project group, the DGOC, in consultation with the
> Committers, has decided to reconstitute itself into the new group, called the
> DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT).
>
> DCAT Begins
> DCAT started this month reviewing new feature requests from the DSpace
> community issue/feature tracking tool, JIRA. The aim is to review all new
> feature requests in JIRA and facilitate community-wide discussions on those
> requests that appear to have the broadest appeal or would have the biggest
> impact for the community. Part of the goal of the community discussion is not
> only to solicit more feedback and gather specific requirements, but also to
> find project groups or stakeholders who could work on the development of the
> features. You can see the first few issues that have been reviewed by DCAT on
> the new wiki-based DSpace discussion forum. DCAT anticipates using this same
> wiki discussion forum for the community-wide discussions and anyone in the
> community should feel free to add their thoughts. Announcements and updates
> about the community discussions will be posted regularly to the mailing
> lists. The community should note that there is currently over 40 new feature
> requests in JIRA and it will take the DCAT several months to optimize their
> review process and get through the backlog.
>
> DCAT Membership
> While all the existing DGOC members will now serve on DCAT, the group would
> very much welcome new members. The time commitment is minimal and most of the
> work can be done asynchronously via email and wiki/JIRA postings. More
> specifics about the member activities are on the wiki. This is a great
> opportunity for non-developers to get involved with the community and be a
> part of the development process. In an effort to represent the breadth of the
> world-wide DSpace community, DCAT is specifically interested in recruiting
> members from Europe and Asia.
>
> New Feature Request Process
> For anyone who would like to learn about how to make a new feature request
> and what the general process is for new feature development, please visit the
> wiki page that describes the process and provides helpful information and
> suggestions.
>
> Feedback
> As always your feedback is welcomed! Please contact Valorie Hollister at
> vhollis...@duraspace.org if you are interested in getting involved with DCAT
> or have any questions/feedback.
>
> Valorie Hollister
> Director of Community Programs
> DuraSpace
> vhollis...@duraspace.org
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE:
Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen.
Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle.
Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb
_______________________________________________
DSpace-tech mailing list
DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
