[Dspace-general] Advisory Board Nominations

[Julie Harford Walker]

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Request for Nominations to the DSpace Federation Governance and Business 
Planning Advisory Board
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Based on input from the community at the July 2005 DSpace User Group 
meeting at Cambridge University, HP and MIT are convening an advisory board 
to start thinking about more formal governance for the DSpace 
Federation.  We are in the process of assembling a short-list of members 
and welcome suggestions from the community in the form of nominations, 
either of yourself or on behalf of someone else.

The advisory board will be charged with drafting a recommendation for an 
inclusive, representative governance structure and funding mechanisms (as 
appropriate) to advance the DSpace community.  The board will not be 
addressing issues that relate to the software code itself, as presently 
managed by the committers.  Issues that the board will address include:

- What is the DSpace community?
- Who should own the intellectual property?
- What kind of central governance structure would be useful?
- What funding is required, if any, to sustain any centralized activity and 
how will that be obtained and managed?

We intend that the board will be around 12 members, comprised of leaders 
from higher education and industry that are stakeholders in the DSpace 
community as well as experts on open source software.  The time commitment 
will include attendance at one meeting at MIT in late 2005 or early 2006 
and participation on two follow-up conference calls.  Funding for travel 
and accommodations to the meeting will be provided.

To nominate someone, please email the person's name, contact information, a 
brief biography and a few sentences about why you think this person would 
be a strong contributor on this board to Julie Walker at 
jhwalker at mit.edu.  Nominations should be submitted no later than Monday 
October 24 for consideration.

Thank you!