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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:

Ithaca, NY Are you new to Fedora? Go ahead, give Fedora a try, kick the tires and find out if the Fedora Repository platform works for you:

 http://duraspace.org/refrepo/ref-repo.php

From Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Alliances, Director of the Fedora Project, DuraSpace

Edinburgh, Scotland The RLUK Conference 2010, co- hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland, will take place in Edinburgh from November 10 - 12, 2010.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/597

Request from Dan Rehak, US National Learning Registry

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

Timisoara, Romania The IADIS WWW/Internet International Conference 2010 (http://www.internet-conf.org/)will be held in Timisoara, Romania October 14-17. The deadline for submission of papers is September 3, 2010.
• Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Mark Frydenberg, Senior Lecturer, Bentley University, USA
Molly Holzschlag, Web Evangelist, Developer Relations, Opera Software, USA

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, DC Proposals are now being invited to the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies are showcased in engaging, informative rapid-fire presentations. SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, is hosting the next installment of this popular meeting on November 8 & 9, 2010 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

From Thorny Staples,  Director of Community Strategy and Alliances and Director of the Fedora Project, DuraSpace
Ithaca, NY In my recent travels, I have been hearing that there are people out there who would like to get involved in the Fedora repository development process in ways other than programming. I thought that I would use this opportunity to get the conversation started.

BSD City, Indonesia DEIT 2011 will be held in Bali, Indonesia March 15-17, 2011 and aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in data engineering and internet technology. All papers published in the DEIT 2011 proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xploreand indexed in both Ei Compendex and ISTP.