Dear DSpace Community,

The DSpace Committers are delighted to announce a new member to the team: Alan 
Orth from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Please join us 
in welcoming him!

Alan is a systems administrator at the International Livestock Research 
Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya[1]. In this role he has been responsible for 
managing a large institutional repository[2] using DSpace versions 1.5 to 6.3. 
Since 2009 he has been actively engaged with the DSpace community: contributing 
code, reviewing patches, participating in discussions, and providing support on 
the dspace-tech mailing list, and documenting his day-to-day work within the 
institutional repository ecosystem[3].

Alan is a strong believer in open-source software, open-access publishing, and 
metadata standards. As part of his work, he has developed a pipeline for 
cleaning and validating CSV metadata[4], a DSpace Statistics API to expose 
DSpace's Solr statistics via a REST API[5], a repository harvester/explorer[6], 
and several other tools.

We are always on the lookout for new developers, contributors, and committers 
within the DSpace community. Anyone who would like to get more involved is 
encouraged to join our weekly developer meetings.

Contributions can take many forms, from writing code to editing documentation, 
or testing new releases, to improving the theme/usability of our user 
interface. For more information, see our guide to contributing to DSpace:

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/How+to+Contribute+to+DSpace

If you or someone you know has been an active DSpace contributor for some time, 
you can also nominate that person to become our next committer! Nomination 
details are available at:

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Committer+Nominations

Thanks,

Tim Donohue, on behalf of the DSpace Committers Group

[1] https://www.ilri.org
[2] https://cgspace.cgiar.org
[3] https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes
[4] https://github.com/ilri/csv-metadata-quality
[5] https://github.com/ilri/dspace-statistics-api
[6] https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV


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Tim Donohue

Technical Lead, DSpace

[email protected]

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