Congratulations Michele, I, for one, think the new site looks great and appreciate the ability for everyone add to it. When the press release is out I hope you'll share it on the mailing lists so we'll know what's coming our way!
MacKenzie > Dear members of the community, > > Today we have officially launched the new foundation, with the > support and help of the HP Press Relations team and MIT Library Press > ( they did a fantastic job!). To coincide with the Foundation > announcement we have redesigned and launched a new DSpace.org > website. The purpose of redesigning the website was to achieve the > following: > > -Give the website broader appeal from those outside or new to the > community > > -move it to an opensource platform, called Joomla, so the community > can actually add content once they are registered users ( like news/ > events/weblinks). > > -Be able to incorporate forums, blogs ect if these become useful to > the community. > > The website is in no way intended to replace or duplicate the content > on the wiki. The wiki is the key place for all the developers and > interactive users to find the most complete sources of information. > The website is just a "lightweight" more organized slice of what the > community at large is doing. > > I would welcome any feedback you have, please remember this is a work > in progress, and it was produced in the true- start up fashion- on a > shoe string budget with a few people putting in very long hours. In > particular I would like to thank Margaret Waters for all her hard > work on this. > > > If anyone in the community knows Joomla- or is interested in becoming > a content producer on any section of the website- let me know and we > can set you up with access to do so- in the true open source way! > > > regards, > Michele Kimpton > Exec Director, DSpace Foundation > -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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