This sounds really exciting, Peter. I’m going to guess that you became the
Release Coordinator by sending an e-mail that said, “I’d like to help!”
Alice
From: Peter Dietz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:04 PM
To: George Stanley Kozak
Cc: Platt, Alice; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions
Hi All,
I'm Peter Dietz, developer at the Ohio State University Libraries.
I made my first customizations to DSpace code in Fall 2009, and had lots of
questions that people on both the mailing lists and the IRC were able to help
me out.
Since then, I've become the Release Coordinator for 1.7. The goals of 1.7 were
to have a stable and on-schedule release with a nice balance of features. I
stretched a few of the deadlines for development so that we could fit as many
bug fixes in as possible, as well as getting some important features included.
We've also performed extensive testing of the software before release, and
minimized bug introduction by adding a code testing server. I'll also be doing
a webcast next week to give an introduction to the new features of DSpace 1.7.
At my University our team is busy working on our switchover to XMLUI, which
includes look-and-feel improvements (images, image gallery) -- see screenshots
at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibrariesDSpaceDesigns#<http://picasaweb.google.com/pdietz84/OSULibrariesDSpaceDesigns>,
as well as many back-end improvements (proxy-license bundle, iTunes Podcast
support). After the XMLUI project we'll upgrade our development environment to
1.7, and work on making better use of the SOLR statistics system (top items /
bitstreams per collection). I've already backported some of my favorite
features of 1.7 to our 1.6 system (Mirage theme, bitstream ordering).
What I'm looking for from the community is an increased interest, feedback, and
participation in side projects. Such as getting active community developed
themes, curation tasks, and other plugins. Getting involved is actually much
easier than one might think, especially since developers love feedback on
projects, and are generally pretty helpful.
Peter Dietz
Systems Developer/Engineer
Ohio State University Libraries
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, George Stanley Kozak
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Alice, et al.:
I am George Kozak, Digital Library Specialist at the Cornell University
Library. Our repository launched in 2002. We are running DSpace 1.6.2 on a Sun
T-series Server.
We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer.
George Kozak
Digital Library Specialist
Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT)
501 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-8924
From: Platt, Alice [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:59 AM
To:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 discussion: Introductions
Welcome to the first DSpace Online Discussion! Today we will talk about DSpace
1.7: is it on your roadmap? Why or why not?
This discussion will take place today and tomorrow. It will end at 6 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time tomorrow evening. After the discussion, I will provide a
summary of what was discussed.
I expect the discussion will branch into other topics. This is encouraged!
Please feel free to respond to any aspect of the discussion that interests you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'd like to begin the discussion by introducing ourselves. Please state who you
are, the version of DSpace you are running, what platform you are on, and when
you started using DSpace. Then let us know: are you planning to upgrade to
DSpace 1.7 in the next six months, or have you upgraded already?
I will start:
I am Alice Platt, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Southern New Hampshire
University. Our repository launched in May 2010. We are running DSpace 1.5.2 on
Windows.
We hope to upgrade to 1.7 this summer.
Alice Platt
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Shapiro Library
Southern New Hampshire University
2500 North River Rd
Manchester, NH 03106
USA
603-668-2211 x 2156
Visit the SNHU Academic Archive at http://academicarchive.snhu.edu
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