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Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. Here is an An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort :
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is by helping resolve outstanding bugs. If you have an interest in gaining a better understanding of the Fedora code base, or a specific interest in any of these
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bugs [1]
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, please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.
Software development
Standards
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Check out the wiki for a full description [2] of the Fedora specification initiative. You are invited to comment on and contribute to the draft specifications before the are completed.
Community-driven Features
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Performance and Scalability stakeholders met on March 14 to discuss performance benchmarks and testing the new MySQL and PostgreSQL database options. A few tests have been run but the group identified a need for more community participation to execute and document more of the teststhe breadth of test scenarios.
If you are interested in Performance and Scalability, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [10] and attend the next meeting [11] on April 18.
Java Client
The 0.1.2 release of the Fedora Java Client was published on March 22. This release adds three new features to the Java client, notably:
- Preemptive authentication
- Properly closing response streams on failure
- Added support for configuring the client with system properties
Conferences and events
Upcoming Events
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The West Coast Fedora Camp [16], hosted by the Caltech Library, will take place April 11-13 in Pasadena, CA. It is based on the inaugural Fedora Camp [17] that was held at Duke University in November. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Fedora 4 experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive Fedora 4 learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers and Fedora gurus. Registration is now full but please contact Kristi Searle to have your name added to the waiting list and to be informed about future camps!
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DC Area Fedora User Group Meeting
The next DC Area Fedora User Group Meeting will take place April 27-28 at the National Library of Medicine and will include presentations, project updates, and discussions from local Fedora users. The second day of the event will be a Hydra/Fedora 4 workshop led by Esme Esmé Cowles and David Wilcox. Attendance is free so please register in advance!
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Code4Lib [12] took place in Philadelphia, PA on March 7-10. The event featured a Fedora 4 workshop [13] led by Andrew Woods, and a Fedora 3 to 4 migration workshop [14] for Hydra users led by Ben Armintor and Andrew Woods.
DuraSpace Summit
The sixth annual DuraSpace Summit took place in Washington, DC on March 16-17. Andrew Woods, Fedora Tech Lead, led and Robert Cartolano led the Fedora update by asking how the project might invest strong community energy to build a forward-thinking foundation that will ensure a code base that successfully evolves as institutional use increases. A technical focus on specification versus implementation could decrease the code needed to update software, and would potentially invite greater architectural innovation. Andrew Rob highlighted steady member growth from 41 in 2013 to 76 in 2015. Deeper engagement with the community (400+ participants in hands-on training and workshops) coupled with ongoing software improvements (five releases in 2015) will help Fedora reach its target of 100 members in 2016. Finally he , it was pointed out that the effective Fedora culture of support, encouragement, and engagement is what creates sustainable open source projects - Fedora as well as others. He reminded the audience that The audience was reminded that the "ask" is for members to enable staff, technology teams, and ultimately our community to participate, get involved be in being a part of Fedora's futureour community projects' futures.
LDCX
LDCX [15] took place in Stanford, CA on March 21-23. The objective of the gathering is to bring together institutions and developers with shared needs, and assemble around a shared set of solutions and technical components. With technology contributions from peer institutions, shared products for digital cultural heritage offer the critical building blocks for a complete suite of solutions -- from digitization workflow to digital asset management, from preservation to discovery and delivery.
Major topics at LDCX included image interoperability and IIIF, Hydra technical architecture, Fedora 4 and linked data (e.g., PCDM), discovery and exhibits (e.g., Blacklight, Spotlight), DevOps practices, and "Geo" for cultural heritage.
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[1] https://jira.duraspace.org/issues/?filter=13122
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