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

Community items

Action Items