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- We're making terrific headway on our annual membership campaign. Overall, with thanks to our members DuraSpace has achieved 92% of its membership goals to date.
- We launched a new DuraSpace Service Provider (DSP) Program. Check out the 21 companies who are helping lower barriers to open source software on our new service provider listing page.
- The DSpace Community for the first time ever, published an annual report! The 2017-2018 Annual Report is now available. It provides an overview of the user community, membership, two brief community profiles, a technical overview, governance, finance, and events.
- Two camps are coming up this fall. A Fedora and Samvera Camp is happening at the Berlin State Library November 5 – 8, 2018 in collaboration with Data Curation Experts, and there will be a VIVO Camp, October 18-20, 2018, in the Butler Library at Columbia University. There's still time to register! For the Fedora and Samvera Camp click: here, or for VIVO Camp click: here.
- The 5th edition of DSpace Anwendertreffen is in Berlin this year, hosted by the Library of the Technical University Berlin. Over 100 people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are meeting to sicuss about DSpace case studies and best practices. A very important meeting for the DSpace community and for the whole DuraSpace because at this User Group meeting last year was launched the idea of a German Consortium for DSpace membership and today there are 25 new DSpace members in Germany
- Our international outreach initiatives continue with The DSpace Anwendertreffen, an annual meeting of the minds for DSpace users in Germany. We will also participate in a Digitisation and Digital Preservation Workshop Nov 6-9, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. - if we mention the participation at an event here, we should mention all the other events we will attend. I mentioned the DSpace UG in Berlin because it will be over by the time we send out the newsletter and because it's related to the new consortia membership (maybe other communities get inspired!)
- A recent announcement that the VIVO 2019 Conference will be held Sept 4-6, 2019 in Podgorica, Montenegro in collaboration with The School of Medicine at University of Montenegro, Clinical Center of Montenegro, and the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DESIGNING STORAGE ARCHITECTURES MEETING, Washington DC, Sept 17-18 - Bill Branan
BRAZILIAN REPOSITORY WORKSHOPFirst Brazilian meeting on Open Science and Repository, Brasilia (Brazil), September 18-19 - Michele Mennielli
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