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Ithaca, NY  Of the 39 Respondents to the Fedora Commons Quick Check Poll for March 2009, 30.8 reported that they are investigating the use of Fedora 3.0 Repository software; 51.3% are in development, and; 17.9% are currently using the software in their operations. 71.1% are using, or plan to use, Fedora 3.0’s the API-M and/or API-A (soap interfaces). 86.8% are developing custom applications, services or components to use with Fedora 3.0. To access the March 2009 Quick Poll results please contact Carol Minton Morris.

New York City Today, Mar 18, 2009, Sun is hosting the CommunityOne East conference at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to announce Sun’s strategy and roadmap for its public cloud computing service. Dave Douglas and Lew Tucker are keynote speakers at the conference, and will unveil details about Sun’s strategy and roadmap for the public cloud computing space.

Linz, Austria The deadline for submissions of nominations to the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica is March 18, 2009.  If you would like to nominate a digital community  for important achievements as well as innovative artistic approaches towards web-based communities visit Ars Electronica prize categories and submit a nomination.

Washington, D.C. During its three years of operations, the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has gathered and posted over 21,000 documents, which together with its hosted ETD collection make it the third largest institutional repository in the U.S. Usage records also indicate it is one of the busiest, serving up more than 100,000 downloads a month. The repository has also become the cornerstone for a bundle of electronic publishing services developed and provided by the UNL Libraries.

Ithaca, NY Beginning this month, Fedora Commons will conduct brief polls entitled QuickCheck. The goal of this month’s QuickCheck is to learn more about Fedora 3.0 production implementations. Subsequent polls will cover a variety of topics.

Ithaca, NY The submission date for proposals to the Fedora User Group at OR2009 is March 6, 2009. See the Call for Proposals,
https://or09.library.gatech.edu/fedora.php.

At OR07 there was a well attended Birds of a Feather (BOF) session around the idea of setting up a bank of content models and disseminators for Fedora 2.0.  This process fell by the wayside as a formal content model architecture became part of the Fedora 3.o release.

Join Thorny Staples, Fedora Commons Director of Community Strategy and Alliances for a live “All About Fedora” presentation on Wed., March 18, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m.. ET.

Corfu, Greece The 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) will be held on the island of Corfu, Greece September 27 - October 2, 2009http://www.ecdl2009.eu/. Calls for proposals are now being accepted: