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.

Action Items