[EP-tech] EPrints Dev Pow-wow and other announcements

[Sebastien Francois]

Hi all,

TimMB and I have been trying to organise some sort of meetings to have 
some structures and documentations on the EPrints code development. The 
main features are the work I've been doing around eprints4 and the 
improved integration with the Xapian search engine.

For now, it seems that we will have a presence at the Edinburgh 
Repo-Fringe'14 where we invite anyone interested in these activities to 
join. We will also organise other local meetings (probably in London). 
It is unlikely that we will organise video-conferencing at this stage. 
It is a good idea but it is not very practical (time-zones!) and we want 
to get some work done, especially in the form of writing some documentation.

Also, it is time for me to announce that I will be leaving the EPrints 
world on the 8th of August (3 weeks from now). I will be moving to a new 
job at the Tate Digital in London from the 1st of September. It is my 
intention to keep being involved in EPrints but I will only have my 
free-time to do so.

Seb