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<TITLE>UPDATE: DSpace online community event: Outstanding issues for 1.6 - Tuesday 1st September 2009 6PM GMT</TITLE>
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First – a big thank you to all the community members who joined in with the first of the meetings we held earlier this week to go through the outstanding bugs and issues in JIRA for DSpace version 1.6. The meeting was very successful and we managed to cover about 1/3rd of the issues. A log of the meeting is available at <a href="http://duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2009-08-25">http://duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2009-08-25</a><BR>
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We have decided to hold a further two meetings at the same time / same place, over the next two weeks (on Tuesdays, at 18:00 GMT).<BR>
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We really would value your time and input. Without it we will won’t know in which directions to focus our developments. If you have bugs to report or new features to contribute, please get these submitted to JIRA before the event. If you would like to get more involved with the technical development of DSpace, please come along and volunteer to address some of the issues that we examine.<BR>
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The event will take place online in the #duraspace IRC room. Details of how to access this can be found at <a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpaceResources#IRC_channel">http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpaceResources#IRC_channel</a><BR>
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The next event is scheduled to start at <B>18:00 *GMT*</B> on <B>Tuesday 1st September.</B> A set of instructions about how the meeting will be run and which issues are still to be examined is available on the wiki. Please take a look in preparation for the meeting. If you would like to contribute but are unable to attend on the day, please leave comments in the JIRA items, or use the voting feature in JIRA.<BR>
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- <a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/JIRA_Cleanup">http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/JIRA_Cleanup</a><BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Stuart Lewis<BR>
IT Innovations Analyst and Developer<BR>
Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library<BR>
Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand<BR>
Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928<BR>
<U><a href="http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/">http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/</a><BR>
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