Hi Mary (and All), We definitely appreciate your being willing to volunteer your time!
Just so you know, we are still very early on in the process. At this point in time, the "DSpace with Fedora Inside" initiative has not begun any formal development. We're still looking for feedback on our proposal, as well as more volunteer developers (if anyone else on the list is interested and has time, let me know). We've already heard from many interested persons, and we'll be working to better organize a development team in the coming months. There are several past projects we hope to build off of to make this happen. For more information on those, see our FAQ: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace-Fedora+Integration+FAQ Since Open Repositories conference (when this initiative was formally announced), we've also been discussing ways to provide better cross-training between the two project's developer teams. So, we're working on setting up "Intro to Fedora" and "Intro to DSpace" webinars for each of the communities. As we don't yet have a full "development team" organized yet, the best way to stay involved is to keep track of updates across 'dspace-devel' (this listserv) pertaining to the initiative. It's also important to be aware of the ongoing development of DSpace itself -- so, attending or reading the transcripts of the DSpace Developer Meetings is highly recommended: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Developer+Meetings Remember one of the goals of this "DSpace with Fedora Initiative" is not to hinder/affect the current DSpace Development process. We also want to maintain the same DSpace experience (features, etc), so the more you learn/know about DSpace now (and the ongoing development process there) the better. If you (or anyone else) have other questions, let me know. I'll add you to a list of interested people, and as we work to get more organized, we'll let you know (we'll also send more status updates across dspace-devel obviously). Thanks again, - Tim -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace Project DuraSpace.org On 7/22/2010 3:08 PM, wei yuan wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to be a volunteer developer to help with the project of > merging Fedora Commons and DSpace. I would like to help out for the > first live project. > > I have developed java applications for three years and I think I can > make a good contribution. Fedora and DSpace are also applications used > at work for educational purposes. > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > Respectfully, > > > Mary > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-devel mailing list > Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
