MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
Dear Friends,
As signs of spring appear in some parts of the world we are launching several new community-focused initiatives and activities due to geet underway in the first half of the year. In-person and online events will highlight practical and applied use of our open source technologies:
- On Feb 28 David Wilcox will offer a one-hour webinar: “Getting Started with Fedora” (Read more here).
- VIVO Camp will be held April 7-9 in San Diego prior to the DuraSpace Summit and the CNI Spring Member Meeting (Read more here)
- On March 28 Erin Tripp, Dura Space will ofer a one-hour webinar “Open Source Repository Upgrades: Top Advice from Practitioners” (Read more here).
- On April 24 Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, Applications Programmer Analyst, will offer a one-hour webinar "Making DSpace Your Own" (More information to come)
- Fedora Camp NASA will be offered May 16-18 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Read more here).
- Erin Tripp and Mike Conlon have been working with Research Graph to design a pilot cloud-based VIVO hosted service program that will get underway later this spring (Read more here).
We look forward to seeing you at the DuraSpace Member Summit which will be held April 10-11 in San Diego prior to the CNI Spring Member Meeting.
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
SUMMIT (Update)
Our Annual Member Summit will take place April 10 and 11 in San Diego, California. Invitations have been sent to representatives of each member organization. If you received an invitation we encourage you to kindly RSVP by March 12th. We encourage our Platinum and Gold members to send two representatives from their institution and invite our Silver and Bronze members to send one representative. If you wish to send someone in your place please RSVP "no" and you'll be prompted to enter the name and email of who you'd like us to invite in your place. Our two-day summit will include a presentation of the 2017-2018 DuraSpace Strategic Summary, highlighting key 2017 achievements and priorities for the year ahead including emerging projects, partnerships, and programs. Leaders of our community open source projects, DSpace, Fedora and VIVO will give updates keeping members current on each project's status, accomplishments, and goals. A reception will follow the first day offering an opportunity to connect socially with DuraSpace staff and members over light refreshments. Day two will provide multiple opportunities for small and large group discussions to hear from you about how DuraSpace can help you achieve your key priorities. Each open source project will hold their own meeting as well, organized by Project Steering Groups, to discuss goals, objectives, and resources for 2018.
Prior to the Summit additional program details will be sent to attendees. Please contact Kristi Searle if you have any questions.
SERVICES New DuraCloud Pricing for 20+ TB Subscriptions (UPDATE)
WHERE WE'LL BE THIS SPRING (UPDATE)
13th International Digital Curation Conference, Barcelona, Spain, February 19-22, David
11th Research Data Alliance Plenary Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March 21-23, David
WEBINAR: Getting Started With Fedora, February 28, David WIlcox
WEBINAR: Open Source Repository Upgrades: Top Advice from Practitioners, March 28, Erin Tripp
VIVO Camp San Diego, April 5-7, Mike Conlon
Durapace Summit, San Diego, April 10-11, Andrew Woods, Carol Minton Morris, David Wilcox, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Erin Tripp, Michele Mennielli, Mike Conlon, Val Hollister
CNI Spring Membership Meeting, San Diego, April 12-13 Debra Hanken Kurtz, Erin Tripp, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods
Fedora Camp at NASA, May 16-18, David Wilcox, Andrew Woods, Danny Bernstein
