2011 10 31 Meeting Minutes
Attending
Duncan Dickinson (DD)
Vicki Picasso (VP)
Norm Lawler (NL)
Apologies
Greg Pendlebury (GP)
Nick Nicholas (NN)
Minutes
Review of last meeting's minutes and action items
Project Manager report
Duncan was on leave Oct 24-28
Current priority is getting together the eRA workshop items
No feedback yet from ANDS regarding project plan
Lead Developer report
Work is ongoing with the 1.3 release
Scheduled for the end of this week
Fedora work is complete
Test between Greg's laptop and NovaDev3 has occurred
Working on XML ingest
Sandbox server is being built to ready for eRA (eResearch Australasia)
Will run version 1.3
GP to action
Status of https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/17452173
University of Newcastle report
Working on ReDBox 1.2 upgrade
Been a fair bit of work - didn't expect to have to have to re-ingest data
Mint migration wasn't easy.
Working on Nova upgrade
Will wait for 1.3 for production release to interact with Vital's Fedora 3 storage
Hoping to finish by end of week (best-case scenario)
Working with Central IT to formalise ReDBox as a Newcastle system
Training sessions being held for faculty librarians
Working on the eRA workshop
ANDS report
NN absent
QCIF report
Need to focus on ReDBox support options
Norm is working on the UoN SysAdmin funding arrangements
Need to establish a QCIF-UoN Consultancy contract
NL to email DD/VP an overview
eResearch Australasia
Sandbox will run 1.3
This will be the focus for the second workshop
Vicki will use UoN 1.1 for the first workshop