1. DSpace update David Millman Columbia from notes by MacKenzie Smith MIT

2. Millman/Smith--September 2005--2 Software Status Current release is version 1.3 (August 05) Version 1.4 due next winter Fully internationalized Support for San Diego Supercomputer Center’s SRB grid-based storage layer Developing Lightweight Network Interface layer (Web Services: SOAP and WebDAV)

3. Millman/Smith--September 2005--3 Community Profile Voluntary registration at http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceInstances http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceInstances 103 live sites ~250,000 unique items smallest are 100,000 38 US; 65 non-US (US probably underrepresented based on CNI survey) Mainly research universities, other research-generating organizations

4. Millman/Smith--September 2005--4 Community Profile Service Providers emerging –BioMed Central’s Open Repository http://www.openrepository.com/ http://www.openrepository.com/ –AePIC service from CILEA (Italy) http://www.aepic.it/ http://www.aepic.it/ –HP India and HP China –Private consultant in US

5. Millman/Smith--September 2005--5 Community Governance Committer Group for code –Apache Foundation model –7 committers from 7 institutions –Self-managed and independent –Developing product road map and release schedule Significant contributions from adopters http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceContributors –Patches and new modules –Testing and debugging new releases –Help with documentation and support

6. Millman/Smith--September 2005--6 Community Governance DSpace Federation –Governs Intellectual Property and relationships to other legal entities –High-level steering committee to be formed this fall to recommend direction: New non-profit corporation (501c3 or 501c6) OR Leave legal responsibility with MIT & HP (current copyright holders) OR Transfer IP to another entity (e.g. Apache Foundation, JASIG, other non-profit OSS organization)

7. Millman/Smith--September 2005--7 Summary Code continues to stabilize and improve Focus on building a large, diverse community around the system for continued improvement, sustainability Open Source Software development model Emerging Governance structure