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Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA  Today, the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization and the Fedora digital repository project announced the release of Fedora 3.3. This release marks a new milestone in the process of developing the Fedora open source software.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Due to a regression bug that was introduced with some of the recent optimizations, Mulgara 2.1.6 is being released ahead of schedule. Mulgara can be downloaded from: http://mulgara.org/download.html.

Durham, NC and Irvine, CA The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network HASTAC (http://www.hastac.org), today launched the third annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA The DuraSpace™ organization is conducting a pilot program to test a new cloud-based service, DuraCloud™—a hosted service and open technology developed by DuraSpace, that makes it easy for organizations and end users to use commercial cloud services. DuraCloud™ leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content.

By Brett Bobley, Chief Information Officer, Director, Office of Digital Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/ODH/) National Endowment for the Humanities

By the DuraSpace team
Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA DuraSpace believes that communities are essential to the creation of shared and enduring solutions.  To address the challenges inherent in digital information, the power of community can be harnessed towards solutions for preserving our digital heritage, promoting open access, enabling scholarly communication, managing scientific data, and more.

By Chris Awre, Head of Information Management Academic Services, University of Hull
Oxford, UK The Fedora UK & Ireland and EU User Groups held their first formal joint meeting at the University of Oxford on December 8, 2009. The day provided a good opportunity to share experiences and ideas, and was focused around two themes of current interest.

This announcement is forwarded from David Ruddy, Director, E-Publishing Technologies, Division of Library Information Technologies, Cornell University Library (CUL).

Announcement from HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory)
HASTAC has announced the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference that will be held April 15-17, 2010 and hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois, HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations will be a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe.

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Join Michele Kimpton, CBO, DuraSpace for an “All About Repositories” web seminiar on December 16, 2009, and find out how your organization can participate in a pilot program that will test a new cloud-based service, “DuraCloud.” Please register for the free web seminar here.