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*Greetings Colleagues!REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK:  We’ve just wrapped up Episode
5 of the Software Preservation Webinar Series and we are planning future
software preservation programming, including in-depth interviews with
researchers, developers, archivists, curators and others on their work in
software preservation and curation. Please tell us what you liked, what you
wanted to hear more about and where we can improve by submitting your
feedback by Wednesday, June 6 COB using this Google form:
https://goo.gl/forms/tuGjuVlJye4ut5f93
<https://goo.gl/forms/tuGjuVlJye4ut5f93> The recording from last week’s
episode “Episode 5: Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation” is now
available! You are invited to watch the recording and explore the
supplementary resources provided for this episode and all previous episodes
here: http://bit.ly/spwebinars-episode5 <http://bit.ly/spwebinars-episode5>
Episode 5: Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation discusses how we
move forward and scale up our software preservation efforts to meet our
growing preservation and access needs. Guests highlight challenges and
opportunities associated with scaling an institutional software
preservation program as well as scaling software preservation across
institutions. Our final episode in the Software Preservation Webinar
Series, “Episode 6: Legal Possibilities for Software Preservation,” has
been rescheduled as a two-part mini-series in July.Stay tuned for
registration details!Legal Possibilities for Software Preservation will
feature Special Guests: Brandon Butler (Yale University) and Kendra Albert
 (British Library). Additional guests may be announced in June. Research
Lead and Facilitator is Jessica Meyerson (Software Preservation Network).
About the SeriesThe Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey
of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different
software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with
guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies,
scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion
with attendees. The webinar is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation
Coalition <https://www.dpconline.org/> (DPC) and the Software Preservation
Network <http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/> (SPN).
Acknowledgement and sincere thanks to all of our special guests and
registered attendees. Warm appreciation to series colleagues-in-arms Sarah
Middleton (DPC), Paul Wheatley (DPC), William Kilbride (DPC) and all the
members of SPN Training & Education Working Group: Anne-Marie Trépanier
(Canadian Centre for Architecture), Sherry Lake (University of Virginia),
Andi Altenbach (Studio Gang), Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability
Institute), Elizabeth Parke (McGill University), Daina Bouquin
(Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Morgan McKeehan (University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Julia Kim (Library of Congress).On
behalf of the SPN and DPC,Jessica Meyerson*

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*Jessica Meyerson*
Research Program Officer
Educopia Institute
http://educopia.org

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