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This is the October 2016 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.

Fedora Camp in NYC

We are pleased to announce that Fedora Camp in NYC [1], hosted by Columbia University Libraries, will be offered at Columbia University’s Butler Library in New York City November 28-30, 2016. 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. 

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The work has been broken into phases - phase 1 priorities [10] will be have been addressed in the first sprint [11], which runs from August 29 to September 9. Stay , and they are now ready for testing. Meetings for phase 2 are now being scheduled - stay tuned to the mailing list for updates on this initiative, and join in to contribute use cases, development effort, and testing.

API Extension Architecture 

The API-X group has completed the review process for the non-developer overview document [12], which will be moved to the main design page [13] on the Fedora wiki. The technical design documents have now been moved to GitHub [14].stakeholders met on September 15 to discuss progress and plan activities for the next few months. An API-X milestone/demo is planned for early October to demonstrate the functionality that has been developed so far. 

If you are interested in the API Extension Architecture, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [15] and attend the next meeting.

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The Performance and Scalability group met on August 15 [16] to review a summary of all the tests that have been performed so far and note any tests that should be re-run using different parameters. Tests will be re-run in order to maximize the number of resources created and test the current upper-limits of FedoraSeptember 26 to review progress so far. The group agreed that test results should be aggregated and summarized, including summaries of improvements between different runs of the same test. The team would also like to develop an automated system for performance testing.

If you are interested in Performance and Scalability, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [17] and attend the next meeting [18] on September 26October 24.

Conferences and events

Upcoming Events

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Penn State Import/Export Sprint

The week of September 19 - 23, a group of 16 developers from various institutions got together in State College to work on on three initiatives with the goal to provide desired functionality back to the community. The import/export team started working on a BagIt implementation design including Bag Profile support for APTrust and MetaArchive. Their work included reviewing and updating documentation, and squashing bugs related to importing Fedora resources from the filesystem to prepare for an initial round of stakeholder feedback.

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