Last Meeting’s Minutes

Institutional Updates:

Louisiana Clinical & Translational Science Center: 

5/7/2025

• No updates

5/21/2025

• Not in attendance

MUSC:

5/21/2025

• Reminder

  • Migration to Pivotal Tracker complete - should now be using Jira for SPARC and Fulfillment.

  • Be on lookout for story prioritization and ready as next SPARC v3.14.0 release is being planned

• Update

  • Currently in talks with other institutions that have expressed interest in SPARC. Some in follow up to the ACTS meeting in April, some prior to that are further down the path of considering SPARC.

    • Be on look out for potential questions about their experience in standing up and maintaining SPARC, outside of current info provided in SPARC Customization

• Upcoming Releases

  • SPARC v3.13.0 - Ruby 3.3.1 & Ruby Rails 7.0.8.1 & Server upgrades

    • Planning server switch & v3.13.0 release Thrs 5/22/25 evening. See stories v3.13.0

  • RMID - May 2025

  • SPARC v3.14.0 Release - Fall 2025

  • SPARCFulfillment v.3.7.0 - Server & Ruby/Rails upgrade - Fall 2025

  • SPARCFulfillment v.3.8.0 - Late Winter 2026

Oregon Health & Science University:

5/7/2025

• Not in attendance

5/21/2025

• Not in attendance

Iowa

5/7/2025

• Not in attendance

5/21/2025

• Not in attendance

Case Western

5/7/2025

• Not in attendance

5/21/2025

• Will start SPARC upgrade from 3.6 soon. Provided links to release notes as a start to see which version will move to. Noted 3.13.0 will be released soon, which includes fixing an error in 3.12.0/1.

Children’s National

5/7/2025

• Not in attendance

5/21/2025

• Not in attendance

Stony Brook:

5/7/2025

• Not in attendance

5/21/2025

• Not in attendance

Morehouse:

5/7/2025

• Walked through Catalog set up based on Helen’s emailed question - there’s a BIU Core set up that may want to add services there. Will also respond to her email.

5/21/2025

• No updates. Still working finishing up SPARC & Fulfillment set up. Will reach out with any questions.