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Orientation Session

Brief history of Fedora

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Timothy Shearer

• Late 90s: discussion about how a Repository System might look
• 2001 formation of Fedora project
• 2008 Fedora 3 was released: relatively stable, stored objects and their relationships on disk (key selling point)
• 2014 Fedora 4 was released: transition from XML to describe object to RDF; entirely new infrastructure (Modeshape); created some challenges to migrate from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4
• 2021 Fedora 6 was released: introduction of OCFL to store all repository data on disk once again

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• Survey about future development of Fedora: https://forms.gle/48rR9R6Zt1294qgC9
• Deal with issues with auto-versioning (support for squashing versions)

Strategic Planning Sub-Committee Este Pope Timothy Shearer

Current subgroups:

• Communication Outreach Marketing and Community Sub-Group

• Governance and Business Model Subgroup

• Product Position Subgroup

• Product Technology Subgroup

Those were all paused to focus work on the Planning Sub-Committee.

• 5-6 meetings, about 1 hour, January - March 2022
• Outcomes: Report with recommendations for focus of Fedora Project for next 18 months
  • Technology roadmap
  • Membership models
  • Engagement of users
• Key questions:
  • How to we fund Fedora?
  • How do we bring everybody up to Fedora 6?
• Goal: Gather group members till christmas
• Interested people from leadership group:
  • Kate Dohe 
  • Jakov Vežić
  • Heather Greer Klein 
  • Thomas Bernhart 

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