Apologies if the following questions from Susan Borda about DuraSpace membership benefits were already answered. I might have missed it.
Susan, this year the DSpace project offered a three-day "Advanced DSpace" course for developers and repository managers. It was sponsored by Texas Digital Library and held in Austin. DuraSpace members are offered a substantial discount on the registration fee for these kinds of events. DSpace training is frequently requested by users, and we expect to schedule more in the coming year. "Professional development opportunities" include these kinds of training events, webinar series (members are offered early registration to these popular sessions), peer group meetings and developer "hackathons", strategic planning project workshops, occasional professional training such as our ESI series, etc. The DuraSpace Summit is an annual meeting of members that spans two days and has usually been held on the east coast. Day one is a series of plenaries and workgroup breakouts focused on project updates and common issues. Day two is dedicated to project breakouts in seminar style that address important issues for the projects. Member organizations are invited to send one or two representatives to the Summit based on membership level. I hope that helps. Generally, aside from these benefits, people tend to feel that the most important value of membership is the opportunity to have a voice in the governance of their project. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Markow Chief Strategy Officer DuraSpace -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace/Duraspace membership? Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:04:21 +0000 From: Borda, Susan <susan.bo...@montana.edu> To: dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net <dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net> 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
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