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It has been an eventful summer. DuraSpace welcomed two new staff members from Canada and Italy. We look forward to working with 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 academic record. The DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO projects held user group meetings, workshops, and conferences to learn more about your work and to connect people with each other to fortify an already vibrant community of developers, endusers, and administrators. We are most grateful to our hosts at Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Cornell (from Val: should the Univ of Oxford be added - for hosting the latest Fedora camp/) for Cornell, and the University of Oxford for their generosity in 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.
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We congratulate the University of Houston Libraries who in August were awarded an IMLS grant to develop migration tooling for ingesting collections to Hyku from CONTENTdm. When they received the news as they were cleaning up after sustaining flood damage from Hurricane Harvey. As I write, our nation braces for the arrival of Irma and we We extend our thoughts and support for our colleagues in Floridathe Carolinas, Georgia, and the Carolinas. (from Val: should probably freshen this)especially Florida who were directly in Irma's path only a couple of weeks later.
On an even more solemn note, we mourn the loss 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 responsible for her death. We have strengthened our resolve to promote and provide inclusive communities and to advocate for All Things Open. We double down on our commitment to serve libraries, museums, archives, and scholars of every stripe to share freely and without fear the collections, perspectives, and ideas that illustrate the beauty in our differences and unite us in our shared mission to promote civil discourse and academic freedom for all.
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Register today and join us in Austin! Local accommodations are available at a reduced rate.
WHERE WE'LL BE
ALL STAFF - Please Update - Let's normalize display for all events before publishing. -dhk - Added locations and alphabetized attendees, no 'and' just commas to separate names.
BE THIS FALL
PASIG, Oxford, U.K., September 11-13, Erin Tripp and Michele Mennielli
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CNI Fall 2017 Membership Meeting, Washington, DC, Dec 11-12, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Erin Tripp, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods
NOT INCLUDED IN SEPTEMBER
DSpace
Tim to help complete
(Included above) Update on North American DSpace User Meeting hosted by Georgetown University Library Aug 22-23. More information here. and at http://duraspace.org/articles/3258
Save for October - Update on The DSpace Anwendertreffen 2017 (formally known as German DSpace User Group Meeting) will take place on September 21, 2017 More information here.
Fedora
David to help complete
Update on Fedora and Samvera (formerly Hydra) Camp at Oxford University, Sept 4 - 8, 2017.
VIVO
Mike to help complete
Update on 2017 VIVO Conference to be held in NYC Aug 2-4.
Update on VIVO Community Survey (help in understanding how institutions and organizations use VIVO). Fill out the survey.
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