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News
-DSpace Tech Lead Tim Donohue from University of Illinois
-DuraSpace team looking for areas to work together - Solution Communities, Social Network, event/conference presentations/attendance-DuraCloud APIs coming along, webinar about pilot participation on Oct 28 (http://www.education-webevents.com/)
-Open Access Week Contest (http://duraspace.org/contest.php) - does anyone have suggestions of an repository - unique, underused, gave exposure, changed thinking, etc? 22 archive Ontario gov't documents (interesting policy issues, done at no cost), interesting stuff w/Manakin
-Documentation update by Jeff Trimble from Youngstown State University (http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_1.6_Documentation)
1) "Improve your chances of getting help" guide published in the last newsletter
-http://www.dspace.org/index.php/Archives/NewSpace-Volume-2-Issue-15.html
-Would like to post this on a wiki or dspace.org somewhere
-Feedback, suggestions? Would anyone like to take it on as a project to improve? Include the error code in your msg
2) DSUG Meeting in Sweden
-Schedule at http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-global-outreach-committee/files
-BoFs on DuraSpace's Solution Communities (as formed by Fedora): http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCCWG/Home
-Cannot stream video from mtg, hoping to record and post later
-No specific developers BoFs, but tutorials on day 1 (1.6, Manakin and search engine optimization) as well as separate track for developers on day 2 (DSpace admin issues/community admin, backporting DSpace 2 to DSpace 1)
-Solution Community involved in SWORD integration?: no, but would love to have SWORD experience included in knowledge base
3) DSpace Ambassador Program
-Role description and tool kit (http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_Ambassador_Program)
-Roughly 55 countries/regions recruiting for, 13 volunteers so far, have 30 other individuals to invite
-Goal is to get 25 before launch at the end of September
-Launching a Google Group for the Ambassadors - shared work space/easy communications
-Need help w/gathering typical questions from the list - new/potential users or others
4) Dynamic Database
-being designed on the dspace.org website
-working on pilot for Nov/Dec
5) Social Networking Tool
-http://duraspace.crowdvine.com/
-Login/review site together
-Pilot testing in September - DGOC, Solutions Comminites and SPARC RM participants
-Launch mid-October
NOTES from Sept. 15 3:00 p.m. call - Social Networking Tool
1. It might be helpful to add the Ambassador Regions to the cloud list.
2. Would it be possible to also "activate" the state in user profiles making it easier to track local DSpace users.
3. How well will Crowdvine scale as more people begin to use it and...
4. if Crowdvine is used long term is there a way to search/archive discussions or is finding discussion threads done through the tag clouds.
5. Under Activity - Blogs....will all blogs that each and every person has added to their profile show up under this feed? Could this get messy?
