DSpace Development Fund - Call for Contributions

[Maureen P. Walsh]

Since the launch of the DSpace Development Fund in March 2022, members of the worldwide DSpace community have contributed over $140,000 to support funded development for DSpace. 

These generous contributions have directly supported software development of key features of DSpace 7 prioritized by the DSpace community.

As we look toward planned releases in 2023, we need the DSpace Community’s help to bring DSpace 7 over the finish line.  Funds contributed to the DSpace Development Fund in the coming months will fuel development at our current pace and help DSpace 7 achieve feature parity with version 6. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to do that.

You and your organization can help by adding your contribution to the DSpace Development Fund. 

• Does your organization have a fiscal year ending June 30th and have money left in the budget?  Please consider using those funds to fuel DSpace development!

• Is your organization not yet a contributing member of DSpace. Please join us!

• Would your organization like to contribute to DSpace development in some other way? Contact us to discuss some options.

If you would like to know more and/or contribute to the DSpace Development Fund, please contact us at DSpaceD...@lyrasis.org.  You can also visit the DSpace wiki for more information about the DSpace Development Fund and see a list of institutions that have already contributed.

DSpace continues to grow and evolve to sustain open repositories because of generous contributions of time and resources by the global DSpace community. Thank you for your continued support.

Maureen Walsh

Chair, DSpace Leadership and Steering Groups

on behalf of DSpace Governance

Maureen P. Walsh
Associate Professor
Scholarly Sharing Strategist
The Ohio State University
University Libraries
wals...@osu.edu
Pronouns: she/her