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This month marks the beginning of the IMLS-funded Fedora Migration Paths and Tools project, which seeks to bring the community forward to a modern, supported version of Fedora via migration tools, documentation, guides, best practices, and other pathways. The first phase of the grant focuses on two pilot migrations, the first at the University of Virginia and the second at Whitman College. The grant team will meet with each pilot institution this month to kick-off the project and establish roles, responsibilities, goals, and timelines. Stay tuned for more information as the grant work progresses!
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Slides and Recordings: Online Fedora Users Group Meeting - European Timezones
The second Online Fedora Users Group Meeting, this time based around European timezones will take place on September 9. This meeting is free and open to anyone who would like to attend; it will provide an opportunity for members of the Fedora community to connect, share information, and provide updates on local projects and initiatives. To attend the meeting please register in advance. Sessions will be recorded and shared after the meetingtimezones, is now complete. The meeting featured a number of great presentations and updates from Fedora community members, along with discussions around migration and organizing a future meeting. 25-30 participants attended sessions throughout the day. Slides and notes are available on the wiki, and all the video recordings have been uploaded to YouTube. Feel free to share these resources with your colleagues.
Slides and Recordings: Online Fedora Users Group Meeting - American Timezones
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- All the recordings from Islandora Online are now available on YouTube
- A new Islandora 8 users call has been scheduled
- The Islandora Foundation has extended its timeline to end support for Drupal 7
Samvera
- The Samvera Connect call for proposals has been extended until September 9Hyrax Maintenance Working Group has two open positions for a QA Lead and a Developer
- The Samvera Connect program committee is seeking volunteers to help with support groups for the conference
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The latest OCFL community meeting took place on July 8September 9. Notes and audio from from the call are available online. The meeting focused on community editorial updates from Indiana University, University of Technology Sydney, University of Maryland, Fedora, and Samvera, the release of OCFL 1.0, composition of the editorial team, and Interest in defining community policies for merging community extensions, including the proposed extensions review and merge policy, and reconsidering 'range' for string parameters. The next community call will take place on September 9thOctober 14th.
Conferences and events
In an attempt to simplify the task of keeping up with Fedora-related meetings and events, a Fedora calendar is available to the community as HTML and iCal .
If you have not already joined the fedora-project Slack workspace please start by visiting the self-registration form. Come join the conversation!
Online Fedora Users Group Meeting
The second Online Fedora Users Group Meeting will take place on September 9. This meeting is free and open to anyone who would like to attend; it will provide an opportunity for members of the Fedora community to connect, share information, and provide updates on local projects and initiatives. To attend the meeting please register in advance. Sessions will be recorded and shared after the meeting.
Membership
Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. This funding supports full-time staff to work on Fedora and provide technical leadership, direct strategic planning, organize community outreach, and coordinate timely software releases. Membership also provides opportunities to participate in project governance and influence the direction of the software. If your institution is not yet a member in support of Fedora, please join us today!
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