Open source

From Sands Fish, Senior Software Engineer MIT Libraries, and the DSpace 3.0 Release Team

DSpace Development never stops! DSpace 3.0 is almost here, and with it arrives numerous new features, improvements, bug-fixes, changes, etc.

We ask that you take a few minutes of your time in these coming weeks to help us fully test this new release! We want to ensure that we are maintaining the same level of quality that you come to expect out of a new DSpace release. We'd also love to hear your early feedback on 3.0!

Winchester, MA  You are invited to attend a DuraSpace Solutions Webinar focused on the recent release of Fedora 3.6 on Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET. Edwin Shin, Fedora Release Team Leader and Managing Partner and Technical Director, MediaShelf, will be presenting an overview of what's new in Fedora Repository 3.6.

From Dell Global Education Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and DuraSpace

• One of the largest public university libraries in the country uses open source software on Dell DX Object Storage Platform to manage and protect digital assets
• University lowers storage total cost of ownership with scalability to support archive growth

From Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer, DuraSpace

From Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Office of Strategic Initiatives, The Library of Congress

Washington, DC  The Levels of Preservation National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) project has posted a draft of their work for public comment on The Signal bog. We would like to invite you and your colleagues to provide feedback on this draft.

Winchester, MA  The DuraCloud team will host the sixth in a series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud on Wednesday, September 26th at 12:30pm ET. Wednesday's brown bag session will detail the ways in which DuraCloud can help you solve problems around preserving and/or providing access to content, enabling scheduled distributed off-site backups, ensuring the health of your content once it is stored in the cloud, working through the business/contractual side of choosing a cloud vendor, and much more!

From the Kaltura Team

New York, NY  The Kaltura Education Video Summit is taking place on December 6, 2012 as a virtual conference.  More than 500 attendees will be tuning in to listen to the conference sessions on the hot topics related to video in education and learning. If you are interested in reaching this audience, this is your opportunity to do so.

We are looking for suggestions for session topics, speakers and panels.

DuraCloud Gives Institutions the Option to Use Academic Cloud Storage