Dear all,
It is with great pleasure that the DSpace Commit Group would like to
announce the latest addition to the group: Ben Bosman. Please join me in
welcoming him!
Ben has acted as architect on many commercial contracts providing
customization of the DSpace platform and has made significant contribution
to DSpace in the past, including new features for RSS support. Ben has been
recognized as a long term participant in the community as @mire has a vested
interest in the success of DSpace as an Open Source platform. Ben will be a
devoted player in maintaining DSpace as an Open Platform and has a number of
existing projects planned for contribution to the codebase. The addition of
Ben as a committer provides a very active, pragmatic and practical
development resource to the DSpace commit team.
Some background for those who do not know Ben:
2004-2005
Completed master thesis together with @mire colleague Lieven Droogmans on
the use of DSpace for storing research output
Created RSS functionality for DSpace and presented it at DSUG in Cambridge
Presented proposal for authorization in DSpace at DSUG in Cambridge
Presented Proposal for file conversion for digital preservation and end-user
ease-of-use in DSpace at DSUG in Cambridge
2006-present
Founded @mire, a company offering DSpace services and DSpace modules to
customers in Europe, USA, Canada and South-Africa and currently involved
with almost 20 institution's DSpace repositories
Member of the DSpace 2.0 development team.
Ben's anticipated involvement as a DSpace committer:
*Development on DSpace 2.0:*
This development is currently ongoing in collaboration with the foundation
and includes work to be presented at OR09. Ben is working on the codebase
and managing @mire developers to complete critical development neccessary
for the project and the community.
*
Maintenance, Enhancements and Bugfixes on current DSpace releases:*
Due to a wide array of different DSpace instances @mire is offering support,
custom development and modules for, Ben has considerable in-house
experience with different versions of DSpace and the various issues/bugs
that may arise.
*Planning, Requirements and Development on future DSpace releases:*
Ben and @mire have a close connection with many different users with
different requirements using DSpace for research output, digital libraries,
project management. This knowledge is an excellent foundation for evaluating
contributions, enhancing the core codebase of DSpace and offering feedback
about decisions which might cause issues with the current releases of DSpace
codebase.
Ben would like to express thanks for the recognition of his dedication to
DSpace with this new role. His addition as a committer is part of an
ongoing initiative to scale and restructure the DSpace development team to
be more productive and responsive to the DSpace user community. Welcome on
board Ben!
Best wishes,
Mark (and all the members of the DSpace Commit Group).
--
Mark R. Diggory
http://purl.org/net/mdiggory/homepage - Bio
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