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Cambridge, MA On August 4, 2011, the DuraCloud team kicked off the DuraCloud Video Pilot Project with a one day meeting with pilot institutions the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) and WGBH Boston. The goal of the DuraCloud Video Pilot is to have a robust video offering embedded in the DuraCloud platform that will be available to the public through the DuraCloud service.

Ithaca, NY The DuraSpace organization announced today the release of production-ready DuraCloud 1.0. This release focuses on reporting and integrations with popular DSpace and Fedora repositories. Since 2010, DuraCloud open source software has been available to a community of partners and committers who have provided feedback and testing to ensure that DuraCloud 1.0 is ready to be part of your workflow. DuraCloud is also available as a managed service.

From Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

Washington, DC SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced it will host its first North American meeting on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the successful biennial SPARC Digital Repositories meeting.

Save the date: Kansas City, March 11-13, 2012

Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will fund expansion of popular cloud storage service
 

Winchester, MA If you plan to travel to the Library of Congress NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting being held in Washington, DC, July 19-21, please take note of two DuraSpace events. A DuraCloud poster and demonstration will be occurring on Tuesday, July 19 beginning at 4:30pm. The following day, Michele Kimpton will discuss sustaining an open source community during the 12:30pm to 1:30pm lunch session.

There will be several DuraSpace team members attending the meeting, so we look forward to talking with you in DC!

Winchester, MA The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from July 9-13, 2012. To get announcements about this event and other OR-related communications, you may join the OR announcements mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.

From Bram Luyten, @mire.

Leuven, Belgium A diverse group of 50 attendees, both developers as well as repository managers, gathered on June 21, 2011 for the @mire and Duraspace -sponsored DSpace Pre-Conference User Group.

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Winchester, MA If you plan to travel to the American Library Association annual conference being held in New Orleans, LA, June 23-28, please take note of two panel discussions that will include presentations about DuraCloud. Details are below:

"Updates on Cloud Computing Uses for Library Services"
Saturday, June 25 8-10am
Convention Center Room #285

"It's all Geek to Me: Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems"
Sunday, June 26 8-10am
Convention Center Room #342