Dear Fedora Community,
Our 2010 DuraSpace/ /sponsorship program is off to a really good start! As of today, we have a total of $174,000 in financial support committed by our community members. The list of contributors so far can be seen below. In addition to supplying the funds to cover about 25% of our operating costs on an on-going basis, the Sponsorship Program is designed to provide us with a large number of active partners in our mission to preserve the world's intellectual, cultural and scientific information by providing technologies and services that help to ensure that digital content is accessible over the long term.
In order for us to maintain our 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit organization, we must show that we are not funded by only a few large companies or institutions. This first year of the program is a particularly challenging time for us, as our grant funding winds down and the offering of our new cloud-based service, DuraCloud, ramps up, so we will definitely appreciate all the contributions that we can get. We have passed the halfway mark towards reaching our first-year goal of $300,000 in just two months. Please keep those cards and letters (and emails) coming, folks! We very much appreciate your support.
If you would like to learn more about the sponsorship program you can view the materials we have sent out to the community at http://duraspace.org/sponsorship.php.
If you have questions, please feel free to email me. Thorny Gold Sponsors ------------ Arizona State University Library Columbia University Libraries Cornell University Library Indiana University Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) MIT Libraries Stanford University Library Tufts University Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Libraries University of Michigan University of Toronto University of Virginia Library Silver Sponsors ------------- Oxford University Northwestern University Rice University Library University of Minnesota Libraries University of New South Wales York University Libraries Bronze Sponsors -------------- Malmo University Markus Library, The Rockefeller University MBLWHOI Library New York University University of Hawaii at Manoa Library University of Notre Dame University of Southern Queensland University of Technology Sydney Library Other Gifts --------- Digital Humanities Observatory Kansas State University Library Vanderbilt University Libraries -- ____________________________________ Thornton Staples Director of Community Strategy and Alliances Director of the Fedora Project DuraSpace, Inc. [email protected] (202) 684-6952 skype: thorny.staples www.duraspace.org
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