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The summer has flown by and I hope everyone has enjoyed had some vacation time spent recharging! I enjoyed seeing many of you in Charlottesville at the SHARE Annual Meeting in July. There The presentations were many interesting presentations , and as usual, the conversations at break breaks helped spark ideas for new collaborations. This summer we've focused on establishing greater working relationships with global partners and have talked talking with Mark Leggott at Research Data Canada, Kathleen Shearer at COAR, and Michele Mennielli at CINECA about ways to collaborate to promote open data and research internationally. I look forward to sharing details about these efforts in the coming months. Later this month, I travel
This week I am traveling to Denver, Colorado to attend the 7th Annual VIVO Conference. The conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with researchers and administrators from around the world to learn more about VIVO at their institutions and to explore collaborative opportunities for collaboration. Details and registration forms . A detailed Conference schedule can be found on-line online at http://www.vivoconference.org/.
Finally Finally, thanks to all of you for renewing your DuraSpace membership memberships and for your commitment to community support of open source software. If you have colleagues at institutions who are not yet members, please let us me know and we'll I will reach out to them. While we need paid memberships to sustain our work together, we also need strong, vibrant communities to grow our projects and respond to user meet vital, ongoing needs. Thank all of you who are involved in leadership, training, code contribution, and other community activities. You 're are the reason we're here!
I look forward to seeing many of you on the conference circuit this fall. at conferences and meetings this fall (see "Where We'll Be" below) Until then, enjoy the rest of the summer!
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
2016 Membership update
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