*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* June 8, 2016 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1UfhS70
*DuraSpace Announces Jonathan Markow’s Retirement* The DuraSpace organization today announced Jonathan Markow’s retirement from his position as Chief Strategy Officer for DuraSpace, effective November, 2016. CEO Debra Hanken Kurtz said, “With heavy hearts and a deep appreciation for everything that Jonathan has accomplished for our community and our organization during his tenure at DuraSpace, we wish our friend and colleague every success and much happiness.” Jonathan Markow joined DuraSpace in March, 2011, as Chief Strategy Officer. He brought years of experience in open source software strategy and community leadership to the position. His time at DuraSpace was marked by several key achievements. He helped design the first formal governance structure around a new membership model in collaboration with community stakeholders in 2013-2014. The initiative clarified that the key reason for institutions to "join" DuraSpace was to play a leading role in our shared digital future based on principles of openness, inclusion and sustained contribution. Markow suggested that it was in the mutual interest of DuraSpace members, partners and stakeholders to participate together in sustaining open source projects that enable preservation, access to, and discovery of the world’s intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage. At the 2014 DuraSpace Summit he said, “The membership concept is consistent with DuraSpace’s evolving governance models because it affords members more of a say in the strategic direction and oversight of the projects.” More than 150 DuraSpace member organizations now help sustain DSpace, Fedora and VIVO. Markow also initiated a Corporate Sponsorship program and has coordinated and expanded the Registered Service Provider program. Prior to joining DuraSpace he served as Executive Director of JASIG, the non-profit organization providing stewardship for open source software projects created by and for the benefit of higher education. Jonathan helped JASIG become a non-profit corporation with a membership model and then took on the position of ED. During his three years in this role, JASIG was the home for applications such as uPortal and uMobile, the higher ed institutional portal; CAS, the Central Authentication Service providing single sign-on for web applications; and Bedework, the enterprise web calendar. Before leaving JASIG, Jonathan advocated for its merger with the Sakai Foundation, which resulted in the creation of Apereo. Jonathan has also served as the Assistant Vice President of Administrative Information Services at Columbia University, where he worked for twenty-three years in a variety of roles within the administrative information technology organization. When Jonathan closes the DuraSpace chapter of his career he will resume a performing career as a jazz pianist in his new home—Durham, North Carolina. *About DuraSpace* The DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) organization is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit providing leadership and innovation for open technologies and services that promote durable, persistent access and discovery of digital data and content. More than 2,000 institutions worldwide use DSpace, Fedora and VIVO open source software which is supported by DuraSpace members. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
