Hi Susan - Thank you for your questions on membership!
The project training events are either virtual or in-person training opportunities for DSpace, Fedora or VIVO. Over the last year we have held in-person trainings for both DSpace (http://www.duraspace.org/node/2414 <http://www.duraspace.org/node/2414> and there is one planned in Ethiopia for this fall, date TBD) and Fedora (http://www.duraspace.org/node/2602 <http://www.duraspace.org/node/2602> and http://www.duraspace.org/node/2471 <http://www.duraspace.org/node/2471>). These sessions are open to all in the community, but members get advanced notice of the training as well as discounted rates. The other professional development opportunities refers primarily to our very successful Hot Topics webinar series. Each series consists of three, one-hour web seminars are presented around a central topic of interest and is curated by experts. You can see the current topics here as well as the recordings and slides for all the previous series: http://www.duraspace.org/hot-topics <http://www.duraspace.org/hot-topics>. The DuraSpace Summit is the annual meeting for all members. The event includes strategic updates on the DuraSpace organization and each of the projects as well as highly participatory project planning discussions. You can read about this year’s summit here: http://www.duraspace.org/node/2507 <http://www.duraspace.org/node/2507> and the 2014 summit here: http://www.duraspace.org/duraspace-2014-sponsorship-summit-towards-sustainable-community-model <http://www.duraspace.org/duraspace-2014-sponsorship-summit-towards-sustainable-community-model>. One thing worth noting is the joining as a member gives you a voice in project governance. Depending on your contribution level, you can get a seat on the project leadership or steering groups. You can find more info about membership here: http://www.duraspace.org/about_membership <http://www.duraspace.org/about_membership> — or I’d be happy to chat with you about it. Valorie Hollister Director of Membership & Finance DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org <mailto:vhollis...@duraspace.org> > On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Borda, Susan <susan.bo...@montana.edu> wrote: > > Hi- > We’re thinking about becoming members of DuraSpace/Dspace and we have a > couple of questions: > What are the “Project Training Events” and “Professional Development > Opportunities” ? > What is the "DuraSpace Summit”? > > Any other info would be great. > > Thanks, > susan > — > Susan Borda > Digital Technologies Development Librarian > Montana State University Library > 406-994-1873 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
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