2012 05 28 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
DD to start preparing the EIF048 Final Report
SP has the template and is preparing for DD
Support agreements from QCIF
NL waiting from response from QCIF CEO
Project Manager report
DD & VP attended Intersect round-table on May 25
Second technical panel was well attended and people are starting to respond to the governance document
QCIF (DD & NL) interviewing for developer role this week
Working to tidy up web and server assets to aid sustainability
DD suggesting to QCIF that Zendesk to be used for support: https://qcif.zendesk.com/
Lead Developer report
ReDBox 1.5 released
Institutional builds and demo archive released
Official post to follow
Happy with UAT process - worked well
ReDBox 1.5 achieves the AMS mandatory deliverables
Working on documentation
Last day is Thursday, May 31
University of Newcastle report
Prepping for 1.5 release
Will start testing with NLA once NLA is ready
Organising access to Trove
Presented at Intersect round-table
Working on business requirements document for AMS
Flinders University report
Grant provided input into UAT
Advertising for technical role
ANDS report
Not attending
QCIF report
Developing details regarding consulting options around ReDBox
QCIF working on NeCTAR image
Not for production, testing only
Not an easy process - NeCTAR issues have slowed process down
NeCTAR fixing issue around upload
GP voiced concern that NeCTAR issues will reflect poorly on ReDBox
LDAP plugin under development
NL to determine progress, developer to speak to GP
Community items
Intersect round table #3
Vivo rep attending (Simon Porter)
Broad discussion around collaboration
UoN & UWS presented a model for collaboration for community consideration
Looked at AMS deliverables and ReDBox community day feature list - then prioritised
Discussions around high-level topics related AMS
Groups at different points in AMS process
Need a national conversation
NL asked about ReDBox user group
Made up of reps from ReDBox committed organisations
Discuss feature funding and development paths (in-house, state-based, other)
VP: We need to transition to something
Needs to start with a communications focus (maybe fortnightly or monthly)
VP: Is this a governance model following from EIF048?
NL: Need to discuss issues, funding of features etc
NL: Post AMS - may be a different process
AN: Where does support model mix in?
VP: Need terms of reference
1-pager re transition from EIF048
VP & AN to draft
Start with meeting structure similar to EIF048 meeting
GP: Technical panel governance model will interact with the user group
VP: Concerned that we don't get a disconnect between development and user requirements
DD: Clarified role of tech panel and user group
GP: Tech panel can help organise release dates
NL: QCIF can work to co-ordinate discussions. Features go through user group with assistance from tech group for implementation
DD to send VP & AN an overview of the tech panel
eResearch Australasia 2012
DD: Interested in a metadata stores day during the workshop time
1/2 day for entire community, 1/2 day for user (product) groups.