2012 05 14 Meeting Minutes
Attending
Duncan Dickinson (DD)
Vicki Picasso (VP)
Amanda Nixon (AN)
Simon Pockley (SP)
Greg Pendlebury (GP)
Norm Lawler (NL)
Apologies
Minutes
Review of last meeting's minutes and action items
Project Manager report
DD to start preparing the EIF048 Final Report
SP has the template and is preparing for DD
SP is developing a list of the various AMS projects' software selection
A ReDBox Users page has been established to provide a listing of users
DD has been seeking out helpdesk software for the ReDBox support work
A call has been sent out for the first meeting around a technical panel
Applications for the developer role close at the end of this week.
Lead Developer report
1.5 RC2 released and demo'd
As follow-up, DD sent an email regarding citations (https://groups.google.com/d/topic/redbox-repo/cdPOObZKEM8/discussion)
Need help text assistance, especially around the map UI
DD and GP developing a documentation task list
Work is starting on the LDAP plugin - via QCIF
University of Newcastle report
ReDBox 1.4 is now in production
Upgrade from 1.1
Need to feed through additional records to ANDS
Worked through RC1 UAT and about to start with RC2 UAT
Meeting with UWS team to discuss development
Preparing user guide and UAT template
Discussion regarding citation field
VP asked SP about citing data that isn't available
SP to investigate
AN drew a parallel to publications that aren't available
Flinders University report
Technical PD has been approved
AN is excited, position will be advertised soon
Participate in RC1 UAT and will join RC2 UAT
ANDS report
SP has prepared a draft overview of AMS software selection
Will email to ANDS Partners list when ready
RC1 UAT feedback related to NLA and RIF-CS are being taken on board
NLA: Investigating what happens when NLA IDs take over from Party records
GP: Currently developing upgrade script and will email through his planning around this.
DD: can we get a round-table together? SP to facilitate with Amir (ANDS).
Preparing for reviews of AMS project plans
VP: Can those that selected ReDBox be surveyed for their development plans (QCIF, in-house, state e-research team etc)
SP will look to get names together
NLA TIM training material is being developed
SP will also provide a link to the NLA's matching strategy
QCIF report
Discussions with Intersect (Joe and Peter) regarding AMS round-table and ReDBox development
Feature set outlined during community day needs to be progressed
Need to ID a core group of Unis to lead the scoping of each feature
Development could be done by QCIF, in-house, Intersect, VeRSI etc
Helps build community knowledge around development
Intersect to setup another conference call
NL working through legal aspects of QCIF support offering (SLA etc).
SP: There's a lot of interest in costs etc
NL and SP congratulated GP on making sure that the system is easy to install