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It has been an eventful summer. DuraSpace welcomed two new staff members from Canada and Italy and . We look forward to working with them Erin Tripp and Michele Mennielli to engage more effectively with our international adopters and potential partners. We traveled to Brisbane, Wrocław, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC to talk about preserving and making accessible and discoverable our collective cultural heritage and the academic record. The DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO projects held user group meetings, workshops, and conferences. We are grateful to our hosts at CornellGeorgetown, Texas A&M, and Georgetown Cornell for their generosity in hosting organizing and providing venues for these events. Your support makes it possible for a greater diversity of institutions and individuals to participate in Open Source Software community activities.
On a more solemn note, We we mourn the death of Heather Heyer and with our colleagues around the world condemn the acts of violence and bigotry by white supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville. We have strengthened our resolve to promote and provide inclusive communities and to advocate for all things open.
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