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[Robert Tansley]

This is great news, thanks Michele and everyone else involved!

Rob

On 17/07/07, Michele Kimpton <michele at dspace.org> wrote:
> Dear members of the community,
>
> Today we have officially launched the new foundation, with the
> support and help of the HP Press Relations team and MIT Library Press
> ( they did a fantastic job!).  To coincide with the Foundation
> announcement we have redesigned and launched a new DSpace.org
> website.  The purpose of redesigning the website was to achieve the
> following:
>
> -Give the website broader appeal from those outside or new to the
> community
>
> -move it to an opensource platform, called Joomla, so the community
> can actually add content once they are registered users ( like news/
> events/weblinks).
>
> -Be able to incorporate forums, blogs ect if these become useful to
> the community.
>
> The website is in no way intended to replace or duplicate the content
> on the wiki.  The wiki is the key place for all the developers and
> interactive users to find the most complete sources of information.
> The website is just a "lightweight" more organized slice of what the
> community at large is doing.
>
> I would welcome any feedback you have, please remember this is a work
> in progress, and it was produced in the true- start up fashion- on a
> shoe string budget with a few people putting in very long hours.  In
> particular I would like to thank Margaret Waters for all her hard
> work on this.
>
>
> If anyone in the community knows Joomla- or is interested in becoming
> a content producer on any section of the website- let me know and we
> can set you up with access to do so- in the true open source way!
>
>
> regards,
> Michele Kimpton
> Exec Director, DSpace Foundation
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