[Dspace-general] Call for Proposals JA-SIG Conference Apr 27-30

[Valorie Hollister]

For those of you who are unable to attend Open Repositories 2008,  
there is another good opportunity to present information about DSpace  
and commingle with people from other open source platforms at the  
JA-SIG Spring Conference "Higher Education: The Community Source Way"  
on April 27-30, 2008 in St. Paul, MN  
(http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html).

The conference will feature CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2,  
Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more.

The call for proposals now open. Deadline for submission of proposals  
is on February 22.

They are looking for your contributions in the following areas:

     * Community Source Management/Governance:  What are best  
practices for managing community source projects or their deployments  
on campus? For encouraging adoption? For gaining acceptance and campus  
buy-in? For engaging your community in the processes? Presentations  
for managers, team leaders, executives, planners and strategists.
     * Design and Development:  For developers, architects, UX  
designers, testers. Presentations for people who build community  
source products, use them as a development framework or want to learn  
more about doing so. These are technical topics, tips and techniques,  
how-to's.
     * Deployment and Integration:  Presentations for people who need  
to make applications work on campus: developers, content providers,  
team leaders, evangelists. In particular, we would like to highlight  
work that integrates community source projects within the enterprise  
infrastructure and with each other.
     * Multiple Audiences:  Presentations that span multiple projects  
or audience types. Community source project introductions and overviews.

Half-day Supplementary Seminars (already selected) will be held in the  
morning and afternoon on Sunday, April 27th as well as on Wednesday  
(April 30th) afternoon, presented by representatives from each of our  
partnering organizations. [See Details].  DSpace Seminars on  
"Upgrading to 1.5" and "Designing with Manakin"  will be held Sunday.

Proposals may be entered on the JA-SIG Conference Website. Proposals  
require a Title, an Abstract (under 500 words), a Presenter Profile,  
and some basic affiliation information. Submit your proposal directly  
by clicking here  http://tinyurl.com/2voabt or from the conference  
home page, where you can find all the details  
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html.

Registration information will be coming soon. Check the website  
shortly for more information.

-Valorie Hollister
Community Outreach Manager
DSpace Foundation
val at dspace.org