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Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort 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 bugs [1], please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.

Fedora 4.5.1 Release

The Fedora 4.5.1 release furthers several major objectives:

• Tighten the definition of the RESTful application programming interface (API)
• Improving the Versioning capability
• Re-establish performance test fixtures
• Improve durability with MySQL and PostgreSQL backends
• Fix bugs

Release notes [] and downloads [] are available on the wiki.

Software development

Standards

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If you are interested in Performance and Scalability, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [] and attend the next meeting [] on May 16 at 11am EDT.

Releases

Fedora 4.5.1 Release Notes

Conferences and events

Upcoming Events

LPForum

David Wilcox, Fedora product manager will offer a workshop entitled, Publishing Assets as Linked Data with Fedora 4 at the Library Publishing Forum (LPForum 2016) to be held at the University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, Texas on May 18 from 1:00 PM-3:30 PM...

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 All LPForum 2016 attendees are welcome—there is no need to pre-register for this introductory-level workshop.

TCDL

Andrew Woods, Fedora technical lead, will offer a Fedora 4 workshop at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) on Tuesday, May 24 from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM. Space is limited to please register in advance.

Previous Events

Museums and the Web

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The West Coast Fedora Camp [], hosted by the Caltech Library, took place April 11-13 in Pasadena, CA. Camp instructors included Diego Pino, Metropolitan New York Library Council, Stefano Cossu, Art Institute of Chicago, Ben Armintor, Columbia University, David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager of DuraSpace and Andrew Woods, Fedora Tech Lead of DuraSpace. Participants included developers familiar with both Hydra and Islandora, librarians and administrators who shared an interest in gaining hands-on Fedora experience. The curriculum featured an overview and in-depth technical “deep dive” sessions as well as question and answer discussions regarding features, migrations, data modeling, indexing for search and discovery, extending Fedora, and more. A full report is available on the DuraSpace website.

DC Area Fedora User Group Meeting

The Spring DC Area Fedora User Group Meeting [] took place April 27-28 at the National Library of Medicine and included presentations, project updates, and discussions from local Fedora users. The second day of the event featured a Hydra/Fedora 4 workshop led by Esmé Cowles and David Wilcox. Presentations and workshop materials are available on the wiki.

References

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