Towards the end of November 2007 we interviewed for the post of OARS Digital Repository Software Developer. We had advertised the post widely - Oxford email lists, jobs.ac.uk, Fedora lists, slash dot, 43folders etc but received only 5 applications, of which 2 were invited for interview. One candidate subsequently declined and the other proved to be unsuitable for the post.

We are now in discussions with a team of developers at Aptivate (http://www.aptivate.org), an IT development company that has emerged from Cambridge University and specialises in IT development for ‘developing world’ projects. We have had connections with them for many years. We are hoping that that they will be able to undertake all of the work we had planned for our developer.