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

Community items

Action Items