<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Lewis, David W." <<a href="mailto:dlewis@iupui.edu">dlewis@iupui.edu</a>><br>Date: 6 Nov 2015 16:32<br>Subject: Support for DSpace<br>To: <<a href="mailto:DSPACE@jiscmail.ac.uk">DSPACE@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution">
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">I am the chair of the DSpace Steering Committee and one of our goals is to engage the DSpace community outside of North America.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">The DSpace community has an interesting split. Much of the financial support for DSpace, and thus most of the participation in the governance of the project, comes from North America, while
the majority of the users and code contributors are from outside of North America. In the long run this split is not healthy for the project, which is why we are looking for more engagement from outside North America.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">As you may know DSpace has undergone a significant organizational rejuvenation in the past year or so, and this is leading to important and overdue enhancements in the code base. In order
to further these developments, DSpace needs additional members and their financial support. Membership, which begins at $2,500 (or <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">£</span>1,650), provides the resources necessary to advance the project. It also provides
member institutions a voice in the governance of </font><font face="Arial">the project. Both are important. This level of contribution is trivial compared to the cost of commercial software and is an investment in the future of this important open source
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:14px">I would ask you to encourage your organization could become a member. Information on membership is available at: </font><a href="http://duraspace.org/become_a_member" target="_blank"><font style="font-size:14px">http://duraspace.org/become_a_</font>member</a> or
you can contact Valorie Hollister at: <a href="mailto:vhollister@duraspace.org" target="_blank">vhollister@duraspace.org</a>. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">I would be happy to talk to senior people in your organization if that might help make the case. Stuart Lewis from the University of Edinburgh (<a href="mailto:Stuart.Lewis@ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">Stuart.Lewis@ed.ac.uk</a>), a member of the Space
Steering Group would also be please to help support the case for membership if that would be useful. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">If there are others who might be interested in DSpace membership we would welcome hearing about them.</font></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">Thanks for your consideration.</font></div>
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Dean of the IUPUI University Library<br>
IU Assistant Vice President for Digital Scholarly Communication<br>
<a href="http://dlewis@iupui.edu" target="_blank">dlewis@iupui.edu</a><br>
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