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Attendees
- Laurie Arp Gemmill Arp
Chris Awre- Thomas Bernhart
- Danny Bernstein
Dan Coughlin- Jon Dunn
- Jennifer Gilbert
Emily Gore- Arran Griffith
Mark Jordan- Rosalyn Metz
Robert Miller- Este Pope Pope
- Scott Prater
Robin Ruggaber- Oliver Schöner
- Tim Timothy Shearer
Jennifer Vinopal- Kate Dohe
- Heather Greer Klein
- Stacy Stacey Erdman
- Jakov Vežić
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Previous Action Items
Notes
Orientation Session
Brief history of Fedora
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- Late 90s: discussion about how a Repository System might look
- 2001 formation of Fedora project
- 2008 Fedora 3 was released: relatively stable, stored objects and their relationships on disk (key selling point)
- 2014 Fedora 4 was released: transition from XML to describe object to RDF; entirely new infrastructure (Modeshape); created some challenges to migrate from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4
- 2021 Fedora 6 was released: introduction of OCFL to store all repository data on disk once again
Introduction to LYRASIS as our organizational home
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Laurie Gemmill Arp
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Started back in 1936
1590+ member organizations
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- Business infrastructure
- Financial management
- Program infrastructure
- Membership management
- HR and staffing
Commitment and responsibilities
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Arran Griffith
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- Fedora Governance Model: Roles and Responsibilities
- Meetings: typically once per quarter
- Important communication channels:
- Google mailing list
- Leaders Slack channel
- One of the most important role of Leadership Group members: advocate for Fedora 6
Current affairs
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Este Pope
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- Decline in some of the larger memberships recently
- But also new organizations becoming members
- Important for the nearer future of Fedora:
- Increase adoption of Fedora 6 (bring existing Fedora 3/4/5 users to Fedora 6, bring in new users)
- Modernize organizational structures for the Fedora project, modernize membership model
- Other revenue sources?
- Find people for open positions:
- Product management
- Technical lead
Governance Model Considerations
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Arran Griffith
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Leadership group: 14 members currently (based on the number of project members)
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- Alternative organizational models (big overlap between the two groups):
Suggestions:- reduce number of members in steering
- merge steering and leadership
- combine leadership group meetings with the leaders/committers call
Technology Update Danny Bernstein
New Fedora releases:
- 6.1.0: Fedora 6.1.0 Release Notes
- Performance improvements
- Bugfixes
- Camel Toolbox: https://github.com/fcrepo-exts/fcrepo-camel-toolbox/releases/tag/fcrepo-camel-toolbox-6.0.0
- Compatible with Fedora 6.x
- Easier deployment (no longer requires OSGI runtime like Karaf)
- Docker Image
- Docker Compose setup (includes Fedora 6, Camel Toolbox, Solr Search Index and Fuseki SPARQL Endpoint
- Integration of HTTP service
- Migration Utilities: https://github.com/fcrepo-exts/migration-utils/releases/tag/migration-utils-6.1.0
- Migration Validator: https://github.com/fcrepo-exts/fcrepo-migration-validator/releases/tag/fcrepo-migration-validator-1.1.0
What's next?
- Survey about future development of Fedora: https://forms.gle/48rR9R6Zt1294qgC9
- Deal with issues with auto-versioning (support for squashing versions)
Action Items