A ten minute experiment to enable this sort of sharing between Fedora and DSpace communities... Ideally, this could also be embeded in various websites, subscribed to etc... http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/~mdiggory/Home
Confluence is so much better than Mediawiki... Mark On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Mark Diggory <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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