Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, have announced today that they will join their organizations to pursue a common mission.  Jointly, they will provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies for global […]

Rotterdam, Netherlands Infrae (http://infrae.com/), a company that builds software on request and provides integration, customization, and support services for public and private sector customers throughout Europe, is pleased to announce the first public release of the MOAI Server (http://moai.infrae.com/). MOAI is a platform that aggregates input from disparate sources and republishes it via the Open […]

Tune in on Wed., May 13, 2009 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET  for a SUN/DSpace/Fedora/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar that will highlight the upcoming OR09 (https://or09.library.gatech.edu/index.php) to be held in Atlanta, Georgia from May 18-21, 2009 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The conference promises to showcase the latest global repository developments and […]

Atlanta, Georgia To find out more about the broad range of OR09 topics spanning repository implementations for education, research, science, and cultural heritage browse the OR09 program now available here: https://or09.library.gatech.edu/schedule.php.
• Early bird registration has been extended until this Friday, April 24th. The registration URL is:  https://or09.library.gatech.edu/registration.php  (One and two day registrations are now available.)
• […]

Ithaca, NY This issue of the Fedora Commons HatCheck newsletter features overviews of technical and community developments as well as trends and information about how new kinds of projects are using Fedora.
Read HatCheck online here. Subscribe to HatCheck RSS  here. Back issues are available here.  HatCheck is a quarterly newsletter published by Fedora Commons by and for communities of Fedora users, […]

By Sandy Payette, Executive Director Fedora Commons Welcome to the first issue of HatCheck in 2009. We hope that you have found our quarterly newsletter interesting and informative, and we encourage you to contact us if you have interesting Fedora news to report or events to announce!
A big focus of Fedora Commons this year will […]

New York City Today, Mar 18, 2009, Sun is hosting the CommunityOne East conference at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to announce Sun’s strategy and roadmap for its public cloud computing service. Dave Douglas and Lew Tucker are keynote speakers at the conference, and will unveil details about Sun’s strategy and roadmap […]

Linz, Austria The deadline for submissions of nominations to the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica is March 18, 2009.  If you would like to nominate a digital community  for important achievements as well as innovative artistic approaches towards web-based communities visit Ars Electronica prize categories and submit a nomination. This category focuses attention on the wide-ranging social and artistic impact of […]

Washington, D.C. During its three years of operations, the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has gathered and posted over 21,000 documents, which together with its hosted ETD collection make it the third largest institutional repository in the U.S. Usage records also indicate it is one of the busiest, serving up more than […]

Ithaca, NY The submission date for proposals to the Fedora User Group at OR2009 is March 6, 2009. See the Call for Proposals,
https://or09.library.gatech.edu/fedora.php.
“We are very interested in proposals both for software
development projects (especially, but not limited to, open-source
software to be used with Fedora) and for interesting uses of Fedora. Any new tool, client or interface […]