Open source

Ithaca, NY The 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (Anaheim, California; Oct. 12-15, 2010) will once again bring the people, research, businesses and resources together to examine and discuss the best IT solutions for higher education. If you are traveling to Anaheim please look for Michele Kimpton, CBO and Carol Minton Morris, Dir.

Excerpt from “Making Repositories Mean More: Report on the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories 2010″ DLib Magazine, September/October 2010, Volume 16, Number 9/10:

From Art Pasquinelli, Oracle Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation Solutions Specialist and organizer of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG http://sun-pasig.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network).San Francisco, CA Here is an overview of several interesting PASIG-related activities and events that will take place in September and October.

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud Newsletter will launch in October 2010. The quarterly publication will feature the latest news about DuraCloud software development, updates from pilot project partners who are using DuraCloud, recent presentations, upcoming DuraCloud related events, and other cloud articles of interest to the broader community. Sign up to receive the the DuraCloud Newsletter at duracloud.org.

New York, NY The Open Video Conference (http://www.openvideoconference.org/) is a summit to explore the future of video on the web hosted by the Open Video Alliance. It’s about building open source and open standards for online video, but it’s also about some larger questions: With so much free stuff out there, how will creators get paid? Who knows what you watch? Where is the medium going?
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Ithaca, NY All the reasons that make working with open source software appealing–collaborative community approaches to solutions, ongoing improvement, transparency, decentralization–are gaining traction in open storage markets as well. In particular elasticity–being able to add large storage capacity on demand–is valued by organizations and businesses that need rapid solutions for housing expanding data.

From Fang Wang, Digital Information Management Librarian, Texas Tech University School of Law Library

The summer is always a great time to sit back, relax, and put your feet up. But this summer, the DSpace developers have been hard at work (though, we’ve also taken our respective relaxation time). We’ve been making early preparations for the upcoming DSpace 1.7 release and mentoring four successful student projects during the 2010 Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

From Steve Bayliss, Fedora 3.4 Release Manager
Ithaca, NY Today the Fedora Repository team is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 3.4 led by Steve Bayliss. The latest version of the Fedora Repository platform is now available for download from the main Fedora Repository page at: