#DPConnect Aus

#DPConnect is taking a break in the UK for the months of July and August 2024, so we have decided to move it to Australasia!

#DPConnectAus will be held on:

Fri 19 July - 11.00-11.30 SGT Singapore/AWST Perth / 13.00-13.30 AEST Melb/Syd/Bris / 15.00-15.30 NZST (click for your local time)

Fri 16 Aug - 11.00-11.30 SGT Singapore/AWST Perth / 13.00-13.30 AEST Melb/Syd/Bris / 15.00-15.30 NZST (click for your local time)

#DPConnect is a short informal online space to drop in and discuss all things digital preservation. The sessions go for 30 minutes max. and there is no agenda or theme. Please just come along to join us and talk about whatever you are working on, share work problems and challenges or just say hello!

Use the hashtag #dpconnectAus to discuss on social media.

#DPConnect is open to everyone in the digital preservation community, DPC members and non-members alike. All participants are asked to be respectful and adhere to the DPC’s Inclusion and Diversity Policy.

Who can use #DPConnect?

• #DPConnect is open to everyone in the digital preservation community, DPC Members and non-members alike, provided all participants are respectful and supportive of one another and adhere to the DPC's Inclusion and Diversity Policy (see more below).

How to #DPConnect?

• #DPConnect will use the DPC's online Zoom facility.

• Connect by phone or web.

• DPC members may access the sessions they would like to attend directly, by logging into the website to reveal the joining information (TBC)

• Non-Members who would like to attend the sessions may request the joining information by clicking the link below.

• Each session will be captained by the DPC Head of Australasia and Asia-Pacific and/or a guest host

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy 

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent - the same applies to #DPConnect sessions. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and/or attending a #DPConnect session to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy. 

Zoom may now require you to have a personal account in order to join a meeting. Therefore please could you register for an account in advance of #DPConnect, if you do not have one already. The sign up link is here: https://zoom.us/signup