[Dspace-general] Update on DSpace user group meeting March 10-11, 2004

[MacKenzie Smith]

ANNOUNCEMENT -- REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

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  DSpace Federation User Group Meeting
  Cambridge, Massachusetts March 10-11, 2004
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Over the past year the DSpace digital repository, the open source software 
system originally developed by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard,  has 
been adopted for use by many organizations world wide. As this group of 
research institutions and other organizations has grown, the need for a 
forum to come together and share experiences, ideas, and concerns has 
become highly desirable. To initiate this, MIT will host a first-ever 
meeting of the DSpace user group in March to help build connections among 
the community of adopters and to discuss the future of the group and the 
DSpace platform.

DATES: Wednesday and Thursday, March 10 and 11, 2004.
LOCATION: Hotel at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
COST: $185 per person

Online registration is available at the meeting website, which includes 
additional information about the meeting and will be updated frequently in 
the coming months:

   <http://www.dspace.org/federation/conference.html/>

The objective of the DSpace Federation user group meeting is to bring 
together the research and other communities using the platform to share 
experiences and discuss the future developments of the system and the 
Federation of adopters. There will be presentations on current and future 
work being done on the DSpace platform by a variety of organizations, 
applications of the technology in specific organizational contexts, and 
discussion of future governance and maintenance options to ensure the 
platform's timeliness, usability, openness, and future success. In addition 
to presentations from DSpace adopters and the HP and MIT DSpace teams about 
upcoming releases and future plans, there will be keynote presentations 
from Google and Open Source Software experts from the Apache Foundation.

Questions may be directed to the MIT organizers at dspace-meeting at mit.edu

Many thanks,

  MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA