...
Ms Thaney is an open advocate and Senior Fellow at Mozilla. Most recently she served as the Director of Mozilla Leadership Networks at the Mozilla Foundation, overseeing community-based programs in science, learning, advocacy, Internet of Things, and women and web literacy. Dr. Horstmann is the University Librarian at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Bielefeld University. Previously he was the Associate Director for Digital Library Programmes and IT at The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
State of DuraSpace
Debra Hanken Kurtz, DuraSpace CEO gave the State of DuraSpace plenary emphasizing strong and steady growth, a strategic focus on international engagement, and ideas for increasing revenues going forward.
...
Ms. Hanken Kurtz noted that the efforts of staff members and the financial support of members make it possible to provide a full range of project services “under the DuraSpace umbrella” that include executive and technical leadership, community outreach, effective marketing and communications, business administration, planning for sustainability, fundraising, financial management and business support, governance, community development, managing collaborations, organizational infrastructure, and professional development for our open source projects. This is possible because we share a belief that open source software development ensures that our stakeholder community remains strong and builds capacity for innovation. Ms. Hanken Kurtz advised members to expect communications as the 2017 Membership Campaign was launched in conjunction with the Summit.
Project updates from open source project Steering Group representatives followed.
Maureen Walsh, Ohio State University Libraries, and Michele Mennielli, 4Science, offered an overview of DSpace progress with a focus on the community decision to develop a new, single DSpace UI for DSpace 7. Declan Fleming, UCSD Library, reviewed Fedora community progress and participation towards establishing an API specification, core services, and web standards alignment. Notably the Fedora team led 13 national and international workshops in 2016 with more than 400+ participants. Dean Krafft, Cornell University Library, and Mike Conlon, VIVO Project Director welcomed new VIVO members, reviewed the release of Open VIVO that anyone can join, and encouraged attendees to register for 8th Annual International VIVO Conference in August. Dr. Conlon noted more VIVO progress in 2017 will require more community development effort.
...