Happy New Year! This is the December 2015 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
Call for Action
Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. Here is an easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort:
- Add a comment to any of these tickets [1] if you are interested in inching into Fedora development.
Membership
Fedora is designed, developed, and supported by a global community of stakeholders. Organizations that use and benefit from Fedora join DuraSpace as members and direct their membership funding to Fedora. In 2015, the Fedora Leadership Group set a goal of achieving $560,000 in membership funding, and we are happy to report that we have met that goal with just over $563,000 in funding from 76 member institutions! Thank you to all of our members - your continued support helps fund two full-time staff members, the Product Manager and the Technical Lead, as well as training and outreach, hackfests and community meetings, and other initiatives as decided by the Fedora Leadership Group.
Software development
Community-driven Features
API Extension Architecture
API Extension stakeholders have held numerous meetings over the last few months, and have collected 30 use cases [6] related to the API Extension Architecture. The group has agreed on a methodology for evaluating use cases, and has begun to review them in order to distill a set of requirements.
If you are interested in the API Extension Architecture, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [7] and attend the next meeting (TBD).
Performance and Scalability
Improved performance and scalability is one of the primary goals [11] of Fedora 4 development, and a number of tests [12] have already been performed. However, as software development proceeds, it is necessary to continuously test performance and scalability to establish benchmarks and validate use cases. To this end, a group of stakeholders has gathered to review and validate past test results, document additional use cases, and establish new benchmarks [13].
The stakeholders last met on December 21. If you are interested in participating, please attend the next meeting on January 11.
Conferences and events
Past Events
CNI
Mid-Atlantic Fedora Users Group Meeting
The first meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Fedora Users Group will take place November 30 - December 1 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. The meeting will feature presentations and project updates from regional Fedora users, along with Fedora 4 workshop materials delivered by David Wilcox. More information, along with an agenda, can be found on the meeting website [29].
Fedora Camp
The first Fedora Camp, a three-day, intensive Fedora 4 training workshop, will be held on November 16-18 at Duke University in Durham, NC. 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. An agenda, along with details on the event, can be found on the wiki [28]. More Fedora Camps are planned for 2016 and beyond so stay tuned for announcements!
Upcoming Events
IDCC
References
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