<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Eric,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>There are several meetings and trainings coming up. You can find them all listed with more detail on the website at <a href="http://www.dspace.org">www.dspace.org</a>, there is a calender right on the home page where we try to keep track of all pertinent DSpace related activities.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Here are some key ones to consider:</div><div>-The next DSpace user group meeting is in Southhampton, UK April 3,4 It is part of the OR2008 meeting, so there will be many people and presentations regarding repositories. However there is 1.5 days dedicated to a DSpace user group meeting</div><div>-There will also be a meeting April 27-April 30 in Minnesota sponsored by JA-SIG "Open source solutions for higher education" During the Sunday-there will be DSpace training on 1.5 and designing with Manakin ( for the developer community).</div><div>-There is also another technical and user training planned at JCDL upcoming in Pittsburgh in June 2008.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>You can also find training materials to get you started on DSpace at our website at: </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=61&Itemid=151">http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=61&Itemid=151</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">NITLE also offers training on a regular basis geared toward repository managers and administrators. If you are a member of NITLE you can participate and we are working with them to see if they will allow members of the community to join in.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Hope that helps as a start!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Michele</div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:29:46 -0500<br>From: "Eric Condic" <<a href="mailto:condic@oakland.edu">condic@oakland.edu</a>><br>Subject: [Dspace-general] User Group Meeting and Training<br>To: "DSpace General Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:dspace-general@mit.edu">dspace-general@mit.edu</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:008101c8788c$6aedc0e0$0676d28d@opennet.oakland.edu">008101c8788c$6aedc0e0$0676d28d@opennet.oakland.edu</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>We're new to DSpace, is there a North American User Group for DSpace? Do<br>they plan on meeting this year? Also, does anyone know of a site that<br>offers technical training on DSpace?<br><br><br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br><br><br>Eric<br><br><br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>