Dear DSpace Community -
DuraSpace is pleased to announce eight new members of the DSpace community
group, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT).
Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
Bram Luyten - @mire
Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
The new members above join our veteran volunteers and existing DCAT members:
Rea Devakos - University of Toronto
Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
Beth Tillinghast - University of Hawaii at Manoa
The primary goals of DCAT is to help review and facilitate community-wide
discussions about new feature requests and to provide support to the DSpace
Committer group in producing software releases.
The main activities of DCAT are:
Review JIRA new feature requests, provide draft of recommendations and lead
DCAT discussion on the request
Provide feedback in JIRA about specific new feature requests
Facilitate community-wide discussions on selected new feature requests - flesh
out minimum requirements and potential project team / stakeholders and
developers
Attend monthly DCAT teleconferences
Collaborate on other project, tools, resources which serve the community
Help to organize user group meetings
Network regularly with other DSpace users in country/region
Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best
practices
Periodically attend the weekly DSpace Committers meetings
The success of any open-source project lies with the community contributing its
collective energy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and effort. Thank you to each of the
DCAT members who have volunteered to serve the DSpace community!
If you would like more information about DCAT or if you have any questions
about their work, please visit the wiki or contact me at
vhollis...@duraspace.org.
Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Programs
DuraSpace
vhollis...@durspace.org
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