Congratulations Ben! Jayan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Mark Diggory <mdigg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > It is with great pleasure that the DSpace Commit Group would like to > announce the latest addition to the group: Ben Bosman. Please join me in > welcoming him! > > Ben has acted as architect on many commercial contracts providing > customization of the DSpace platform and has made significant contribution > to DSpace in the past, including new features for RSS support. Ben has > been recognized as a long term participant in the community as @mire has a > vested interest in the success of DSpace as an Open Source platform. Ben > will be a devoted player in maintaining DSpace as an Open Platform and has > a number of existing projects planned for contribution to the codebase. The > addition of Ben as a committer provides a very active, pragmatic and > practical development resource to the DSpace commit team. > > Some background for those who do not know Ben: > > 2004-2005 > Completed master thesis together with @mire colleague Lieven Droogmans on > the use of DSpace for storing research output > Created RSS functionality for DSpace and presented it at DSUG in Cambridge > Presented proposal for authorization in DSpace at DSUG in Cambridge > Presented Proposal for file conversion for digital preservation and > end-user ease-of-use in DSpace at DSUG in Cambridge > > 2006-present > Founded @mire, a company offering DSpace services and DSpace modules to > customers in Europe, USA, Canada and South-Africa and currently involved > with almost 20 institution's DSpace repositories > Member of the DSpace 2.0 development team. > > > Ben's anticipated involvement as a DSpace committer: > > *Development on DSpace 2.0:* > This development is currently ongoing in collaboration with the foundation > and includes work to be presented at OR09. Ben is working on the codebase > and managing @mire developers to complete critical development neccessary > for the project and the community. > * > Maintenance, Enhancements and Bugfixes on current DSpace releases:* > Due to a wide array of different DSpace instances @mire is offering > support, custom development and modules for, Ben has considerable in-house > experience with different versions of DSpace and the various issues/bugs > that may arise. > > *Planning, Requirements and Development on future DSpace releases:* > Ben and @mire have a close connection with many different users with > different requirements using DSpace for research output, digital > libraries, project management. This knowledge is an excellent foundation for > evaluating contributions, enhancing the core codebase of DSpace and offering > feedback about decisions which might cause issues with the current releases > of DSpace codebase. > > Ben would like to express thanks for the recognition of his dedication to > DSpace with this new role. His addition as a committer is part of an > ongoing initiative to scale and restructure the DSpace development team to > be more productive and responsive to the DSpace user community. Welcome on > board Ben! > > Best wishes, > Mark (and all the members of the DSpace Commit Group). > > -- > Mark R. Diggory > http://purl.org/net/mdiggory/homepage - Bio > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK > i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > dspace-t...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > >
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