Dear DSpace community, I have recently accepted the position as Executive Director for the DSpace foundation. The foundation will be newly formed non-profit corporation that will supply organizational, legal and financial support to the DSpace software project. I expect the corporation will become a legal entity in the next two months, the papers are currently being filed and a Board of Directors has been established.
Over the next several months I hope to get input from many of you in the community as to how the foundation can assist the community in the short and long term. I plan on putting together a roadmap for the foundation to outline a plan for the next several years, and sharing that with you at upcoming conferences and online. I do have a few projects in the short term I would like to ask for your help. We would like to submit all the current public DSpace sites to Internet Archive for the public two billion page crawl funded by the Mellon Foundation(find out more at http:// wa.archive.org/aroundtheworld/). I n order to do this I need a complete list of sites. If you have not done so, please add you site to the DSpace wiki over the next few days at http://wiki.dspace.org/ index.php/DspaceInstances. Note that you may need to register yourself to edit the page and if you have problems with that please let me know. To announce the formation of the DSpace Foundation and help promote the DSpace projects we would like your help in coming up with some success stories, for example, how items have been used in your DSpace installation to promote further research and collaboration. We would also like to know what is the most popular or unique item in your DSpace installation. Please email me back with the next two weeks with your stories and favorite items. Or you can post on the wiki at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/SuccessStories. Thank-you for your help, and I look forward to a successful launch of the new DSpace Foundation. Sincerely, Michele Kimpton Exec Director, DSpace Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech