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This is the June 2020 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.

News

Fedora 6 Migration Utility Demo

We put together another Fedora 6 demo video to showcase a recently added feature. In this video, Peter Winckles from the University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrates the updated Fedora 3 to 6 migration utility, which can now produce Fedora 6-compliant OCFL Objects that can be viewed and managed in the Fedora 6 application.

You can find the demo video on YouTube.

This demo follows previous videos where we demonstrated creating Fedora resources via the API and seeing those resources represented on disk as OCFL Objects, how to create and manage archival groups, and how to rebuild your repository from the Fedora 6 OCFL Objects. 

You can find all these videos in this playlist.

We'd like to thank the following people and their institutions for contributing to the latest code sprint:

  • Danny Bernstein, LYRASIS
  • Ben Pennell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Jared Whiklo, University of Manitoba
  • Peter Winckles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Andrew Woods, LYRASIS

Fedora 6 Code Sprints

Through December of 2020 we will be holding one-week-long Fedora 6 mini-sprints during the first week of each month.

This will allow for consistent progress towards the Fedora 6 release, as well as a clear schedule for you to plan towards. If you miss one month, you can join the next!

The next sprint will take place July 6-10. Please add your name to any of the upcoming sprint dates on the wiki.

Activities in Related Communities

Islandora

Samvera

Oxford Common File Layout

The latest OCFL community meeting took place on May 13. Notes and video from the call are available online. The meeting focused on updates on recent validator and related specification work, discussion and agreement on two open specification issues (issue-461 & issue-462), interest in having the extension mechanism defined as soon as possible, and the 1.0 release, which is primarily waiting on completion of validator-related work. The next community call will take place on June 10.

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!


Membership

Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. This year's membership campaign has a goal of raising $500,000 to fund 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!

Register Your Repository

Is your repository listed in the registry? Help us maintain reliable information on the community of Fedora users around the world by registering your repository today. You can also request an update to an existing entry by selecting your entry and filling out the online form. 

Get Involved

Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort is by helping resolve outstanding bugs. If you have an interest in gaining a better understanding of the Fedora code base, or a specific interest in any of these bugs, please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.

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