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Fwd: Welcome Dan Chudnov to DSpace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Jun 7 17:43:23 2001
Message-ID: <Qv7zJnhz0001M=KA1d@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:43:15 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU, lcs@MIT.EDU
DSpace just hired Dan Chudnov to be the DSpace release engineer.
I helped interview him. Career-wise, he wanted to come to MIT
to learn the ways of technology. I think he'll be a fast learner, and
a force for good in the Libraries. I plan on introducing him around
so that we who keep the lore of scalability, and good software
and service engineering can "bring him up right."
He spent time at Yale introducing some free software into their
infrastructure. He spent some time at UMich where he used AFS.
Here is the intro that was sent introducing him to the Libraries staff:
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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:04:47 -0400
To: all-lib@mit.edu
From: Eric Celeste <efc@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Welcome Dan Chudnov to DSpace
Cc: dspace-dev@mit.edu, dspace-steering@mit.edu, dspace-advisory@mit.edu
I am very excited to welcome Dan Chudnov to the DSpace project as our
System Curator. Dan will develop code for some of the administrative
functions of the system, manage the corpus of code that we distribute
to the open source community, and develop our operational
understanding of DSpace in conjunction with other Libraries staff.
Dan describes himself as a hacker-librarian and is an evangelist of
the power of appropriately applied technology for libraries. Some of
you may be familiar with his work at Yale developing Jake, a tool
which helps both library users and administrators better grasp the
e-journal collections available to them. At Yale he worked on this
and a number of other projects, always seeking to solve real problems
articulated by the staff and users of the library.
He is also a strong proponent of the open source movement and seeks
ways to harness the energy of the hacker community toward solving
problems libraries face. Dan's commitment to this course is embodied
in his founding of OSS4LIB (open source software four libraries)
which you'll find at "http://www.oss4lib.org/".
Please join me in welcoming Dan to the staff of the MIT Libraries and
the DSpace project.
...Eric
Eric Celeste / MIT Libraries / 14S-216 / 617-253-8184 / efc@mit.edu
