Chris,  Fedora and DSpace Developer Communities,
Please excuse the cross posting.

I'm trying to get more involved into these meetings, but for now, the time
is a bit difficult for me to make.  I've listened to your phone conference
and can comment on some of your topics though.

There are topics the community are very interested in participating on, and
I'd like to start seeing DSpace and Fedora community members sitting in
activities together.  Certainly:

1.) Maven and Spring DM activities (we are currently restructuring parts of
the DSpace 2.0 repo and having cross pollination of ideas would assist
here).
2.) Planning around Duraspace and OSL resources.
3.) Starting to Share Duraspace resources like Confluence and JIRA.
4.) Community Driven Release Processes and decision making around release
feature-sets
5.) OS Governance and Processes.

The DSpace community has a rather solid release management process and I
agree that DSpace community members should attend some of your activities to
advise on our process in greater detail (ie a round table).

I think there need to be shared resources to advertise Fedora and DSpace
activities.  I might recommend we repurpose the Google Calendar we have for
DSpace activities to be Duraspace activities and that any time we have
Developer meetings, training and conferences, they be published in it.

I will emphasize my own opinion that Fedora Commons trying to open up its
community and DSpace working make its existing volunteer community healthier
are really trying to solve the same problem and we can share
our experience here.  For both the DSpace and Fedora groups,  the core
development team is already a sub-set of the community that preexists and
that to foster greater involvement in the codebase, you will need to reduce
the (often self imposed) barriers to participation by attributing merit to
your community members that deserve it and rewarding them with commitership
rights and delegating trust to them to assist in leading the direction of
the codebase.

Cheers,
Mark

-- 
Mark R. Diggory
@mire - http://www.atmire.com


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Chris Wilper <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just a reminder that we are holding the FC repository committer
> meetings every Tuesday at 10am EDT (US), and anyone may call in.  I
> won't spam the list every week, but just wanted to send this general
> link out now, for people who are interested in attending this week's
> meeting, or future meetings:
>
> https://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCREPO/Meeting+Notes
>
> Prior to the meeting each week, this page is updated with a link for
> the agenda/notes, and call-in info.  So for today's meeting, see the
> 2009-06-23 link at the bottom.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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