[Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] Join Us in Welcoming Ben Bosman as a new Commiter.

[Jayan Kurian]

 Congratulations Ben!

Jayan

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Mark Diggory <mdiggory at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> It is with great pleasure that the DSpace Commit Group would like to
> announce the latest addition to the group: Ben Bosman.  Please join me in
> welcoming him!
>
> Ben has acted as architect on many commercial contracts providing
> customization of the DSpace platform and has made significant contribution
> to DSpace in the past, including new features for RSS support.  Ben has
> been recognized as a long term participant in the community as @mire has a
> vested interest in the success of DSpace as an Open Source platform.  Ben
> will be a devoted player in maintaining DSpace as an Open Platform and has
> a number of existing projects planned for contribution to the codebase.  The
> addition of Ben as a committer provides a very active, pragmatic and
> practical development resource to the DSpace commit team.
>
> Some background for those who do not know Ben:
>
> 2004-2005
> Completed master thesis together with @mire colleague Lieven Droogmans on
> the use of DSpace for storing research output
> Created RSS functionality for DSpace and presented it at DSUG in Cambridge
> Presented proposal for authorization in DSpace at DSUG in Cambridge
> Presented Proposal for file conversion for digital preservation and
> end-user ease-of-use in DSpace at DSUG in Cambridge
>
> 2006-present
> Founded @mire, a company offering DSpace services and DSpace modules to
> customers in Europe, USA, Canada and South-Africa and currently involved
> with almost 20 institution's DSpace repositories
> Member of the DSpace 2.0 development team.
>
>
> Ben's anticipated involvement as a DSpace committer:
>
> *Development on DSpace 2.0:*
> This development is currently ongoing in collaboration with the foundation
> and includes work to be presented at OR09.  Ben is working on the codebase
> and managing @mire developers to complete critical development neccessary
> for the project and the community.
> *
> Maintenance, Enhancements and Bugfixes on current DSpace releases:*
> Due to a wide array of different DSpace instances @mire is offering
> support, custom development and modules for,  Ben has considerable in-house
> experience with different versions of DSpace and the various issues/bugs
> that may arise.
>
> *Planning, Requirements and Development on future DSpace releases:*
> Ben and @mire have a close connection with many different users with
> different requirements using DSpace for research output, digital
> libraries, project management. This knowledge is an excellent foundation for
> evaluating contributions, enhancing the core codebase of DSpace and offering
> feedback about decisions which might cause issues with the current releases
> of DSpace codebase.
>
> Ben would like to express thanks for the recognition of his dedication to
> DSpace with this new role.  His addition as a committer is part of an
> ongoing initiative to scale and restructure the DSpace development team to
> be more productive and responsive to the DSpace user community. Welcome on
> board Ben!
>
> Best wishes,
> Mark (and all the members of the DSpace Commit Group).
>
> --
> Mark R. Diggory
> http://purl.org/net/mdiggory/homepage - Bio
>
>
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