<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear DSpace community,<br><br>I pleased to announce that Brad McLean has joined the DSpace <br>Foundation team on June 1 as the Technical Director for the <br>Foundation. In his role as the Technical Director he will work <br>directly with the community, and in specific the committers and <br>developers to improve the code contribution process, come up with a <br>technical roadmap, and work on removing roadblocks in getting out new <br>releases.<br><br>Brad will also be spearheading the technical coordination required to <br>work with partners/projects interested in working with the DSpace <br>community, such as Zotero.org, the driver initiative,Sakai project, <br>Fedora commons and others that have similar goals of enabling open <br>source tools for open access and archiving of digital content.<br><br>Bradley McLean is a longtime open source contributor starting with <br>linux 1.x kernel drivers. His last position was Chief Systems <br>Architect for Constant Contact, Inc (CTCT), where he migrated their <br>software platform to an open source environment.<br><br>In past digital information related work, Brad was a major contributor <br>to both the KnowledgeCite and WebSPIRS products of SilverPlatter <br>Information Inc ( now Ovid Technologies), and was an active <br>participant in the development of Z39.50-1992 and 1995, including the <br>implementations for SilverPlatter and Gaylord Information Systems (now <br>Polaris Library Systems).<br><br>Please join me in welcoming Brad to the community and help us work <br>collectively to provide innovative open source tools to enable <br>permanent access to our digital collections.<br><br>You can email Brad at <a href="mailto:Brad@dspace.org">Brad@dspace.org</a><br><br><br>Michele Kimpton<br>DSpace Foundation</body></html>