<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear members of DSpace ( sorry for cross posting):</div><div><br></div>Last year a number of us attended the JASIG conference and it was great to learn and share experiences with other developers, managers and implementors of open source software. In one place you can learn about five open source platforms in higher ed, what development technologies are being deployed, issues running and supporting open source ect. If you are using or developing open source tools, you should consider going if you can. In addition there will be a "Getting up and running with DSpace" workshop on Sunday and a DSpace/Fedora developers meeting on Thursday.<div><br></div><div>Call for proposals is open until December 12th. The program is in 4 tracks and the proposal can be DSpace specific. We had some great presentations last year from Cornell U and others in the DSpace community. The tracks are:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * 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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * 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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * 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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * Multiple Audiences: Presentations that span multiple projects or audience types. Community source project introductions and overviews.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">I hope to see you there, best, Michele Kimpton</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>REGISTRATION IS OPEN. CALL FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO DEC 12th.</b><br><b><br>Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together</b><br>March 1-4, 2009<br>Dallas, Texas, USA<p>Registration for the JA-SIG Spring Conference in Dallas is now open! Following the great success of last year's conference, JA-SIG (home of uPortal and CAS) is partnering with DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Kuali, Internet2, and Sakai to bring you a diverse and enriching conference program and seminar lineup. <br clear="all"></p><ul><li>Keynote speeches by <b>James Hilton, Christian Crumlish, and Brewster Kahle!</b></li><li>Conference events run Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th</li><li>Supplementary seminars are scheduled all day Sunday and Wednesday afternoon</li><li>A BarCamp is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon (See the site description for this event)</li><li>Developer meetings will follow on Thursday and Friday</li></ul><p>Visit the main conference site at <a href="http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html</a> for details. <br>Early registration discounts end January 30, 2009. Register now at <a href="http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/registration.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/registration.html</a> .</p><p>We invite you to submit a presentation proposal. We have extended the Call for Proposals deadline to December 12, 2008. Submit your proposal at <a href="http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/call-form.jsp?conf_id=jasig15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/call-form.jsp?conf_id=jasig15</a>.</p><p>Join us to learn more about community source projects and technology trends, share ideas and collaborate with your peers. See you in Dallas in March!</p><p><b>2009 JA-SIG Spring Program Committee:</b><br>Katya Sadovsky, University of California-Irvine, JA-SIG Board and Conference Co-Chair<br>Jonathan Markow, JA-SIG Executive Director, Community Source Liaison and Conference Co-Chair<br>Jim Helwig, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, JASIG Board and uPortal Liaison<br>John Fereira, Cornell University, Web Master<br>Benjamin Oshrin, Rutgers University, JA-SIG Board and CAS Liaison<br>Erik Olsson, University of California-Irvine<br>Andrew Wills, Unicon, Inc.<br>Paul Zablosky, University of British Columbia, Fluid Liaison<br>Jennifer Cummings, CONCENTRA Management Services<br>Debbie Smith, CONCENTRA Management Services</p><p><b>Community Source Partners:</b><br>Michele Kimpton, DSpace Executive Director<br>Michael Korcuska, Sakai Executive Director<br>Sandy Payette, Exectutive Director, Fedora Commons<br>Tom Barton, University of Chicago, Internet2 Liaison<br>Jennifer Foutty, Executive Director, Kuali</p><div><br></div></div></body></html>