Join Development Sprints
The Fedora software is completely developed and maintained by the user community. The project receives technical and organizational stewardship from DuraSpace, but the implementation of Fedora comes completely from the shared contributions of the community. No dedicated development staff implements Fedora.
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It should also be noted that if an institution contributes one or more developers to the project over the course of the year cumulatively totalling 50% of an FTE, that institution is invited to join the Fedora advisory team†.
Reasons to join development sprints
- Increase detailed understanding of Fedora to bring back to home institution
- Drive the Fedora technical agenda from the ground up
- Collaborate with other developers in Fedora technical community
- Give back to the open source process
- Gain membership to the Fedora advisory team
- Ensure the longevity of Fedora as a robust, open source repository platform
- Increase your skill and confidence in using standard (widely applicable) open source software collaboration tools and techniques.
† An invitation is also offered to institutions contributing at the "gold level" of DuraSpace membership.
Join Testing and Validation Effort
Fedora is the reference implementation of the Fedora API Specification. Its development, therefore, is informed by the specification, which in turn is an expression of a number of community defined use cases for a content repository designed for durable access to data.
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If you have an interest in the Fedora API Specification and/or resulting software, please join the testing and validation effort. You can leave feedback as a comment on the relevant wiki page, and/or contact the Fedora Product Manager, David Wilcox, directly with your feedback.