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Brisbane, Australia The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) Conference (http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/) is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. The Conference will take place in Brisbane, Australia from June 29 – July 2, 2011 at the Queensland University of Technology.

Bath, UK A free hands-on SWORD workshop is among several events that are scheduled to take place in conjunction with the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference (OR10) that will be held July 6-9, 2010 in Madrid, Spain.
Have you heard about SWORD (http://www.swordapp.org/) but are unsure of why or how you should use it?

From Robin Taylor, Main Library, University of Edinburgh
Enjoying two successful years, the Repository Fringe Festival is back for the third time… and this year we have moved the event to the end of the Edinburgh Festival, and to the National eScience Centre. Registration is now open here:
http://www.repositoryfringe.org/

From Art Pasquinelli, Oracle

Peter Kosewski, Director, Publications and Communications, Harvard University Library

Washington, DC New videos from the Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) spring meeting are available on the CNI YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni)  channels:

Ithaca, NY To strengthen, engage and provide professional learning opportunities for repository user and developer communities, topics and issues of interest will been presented in the free, “All About Repositories” web seminar series offered by Oracle and Duraspace throughout 2010.

Ithaca, NY At OR10, the Fifth Annual International Open Repositories Conference (July 6-9, 2010, Madrid), DuraSpace will recommend that the DSpace community begin to work more closely with the Fedora community to allow DSpace software to run “on top of” the Fedora platform. Essentially, this would mean that the DSpace application would have an option to install it with “Fedora Inside.”

From Gail Truman, Truman Technologies, LLC