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Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. Here is an easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort:
As always, your development contributions are extremely encouraged. Please sign up for one of the ongoing maintenance code sprints or add a comment to any of these tickets if you are interested in understanding better what exactly is needed.
Software development
Community-driven Features
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API Extension Architecture
The API Extension Architecture is a community approach to extending Fedora 4 capabilities in a way that can be used across the various Fedora 4 client application stacks. The use cases that such an approach may potentially address are:
- Bulk ingest
- Ingest pre-processing
- Content model validation
- Fedora3-style disseminators
- Legacy F3 to F4 URL proxying
- etc.
A design page has been added to the wiki, and an initial batch of use cases has been collected. The second meeting was held recently, and further discussions will take place on the fedora-community mailing list. If you are interested in this feature, please join the discussion on the mailing list and attend the next meeting when it is scheduled.
Community Initiatives
Hydra/Islandora Interoperability
As recently discussed on the mailing list, interoperability between Hydra, Islandora, and other Fedora front-ends is now a real possibility, thanks largely to a convergence on common practices and procedures in Fedora 4:
- Islandora is currently in the process of porting content models into PCDM
- Hydra has groundwork in place (the hydra-pcdm and hydra-works gems)
- Hydra has some LDP practices to share
- Islandora has some asynchronous workflow practices to share
- There is common interest in WebAC (and a working implementation in hydra-access-controls)
Two meetings have been scheduled to help move this initiative forward:
- An informal meeting at Hydra Connect in September
- A full-day hackfest a Islandora Camp Connecticut in October
If you are interested in helping to move this initiative forward, please follow the discussions on the mailing list, and sign up to attend one or both of the preceding events if you are available.
Conferences and events
Events in August
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