The following Fedora community members were nominated for the 2020 Fedora Leadership Group election.
Bronze Members
1 seat is up for election
| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Schöner | Berlin State Library | Administrator für virtuelle Fachbibliotheken | |
Silver Members
1 seat is up for election
| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Prater | University of Wisconsin | Digital Library Architect | I am the Digital Library Architect for the University of Wisconsin General Library System, responsible for managing and developing our repository and digital preservation ecosystem. I have been involved with the Fedora community as a "power user" and advocate since 2005, including stints as a committer for the 3.x versions, a documentation writer, a tester for releases, and an early contributor to the Fedora 4 and OCFL efforts. Most recently, I have served on the Advisory Committee for the IMLS-funded "Designing a Migration Path" grant project for mapping out strategies to encourage and support the user community move to Fedora 6 and beyond. My ambition as a leadership member would be to help ensure that the community (actual and potential) has the tools, resources, and most importantly, confidence it needs to deploy and manage Fedora to meet memory institution digital curation and preservation goals now and in the future. |
| Este Pope | Amherst College | Head of Digital Programs | As head of the digital programs department at Amherst College, I’m responsible for the strategic direction of library digital collections. While my experience with Fedora began in 2017 when I arrived at Amherst and began supervising the developer and committer contributions of our institution to the Fedora project, my admiration for Fedora goes back to the early 2000’s when I watched the project develop from afar as a digital library systems analyst. I’ve had the opportunity to serve on Fedora Leaders and Steering for the past three years. I’m excited by the possibility to continue contributing to the Fedora community as a member of the leadership team. I value the longevity, flexibility, and care that I see in the work of maintaining Fedora software and in the community that guides this work. I was glad to be part of the Advisory Board for the IMLS-funded “Designing a migration path” planning grant for Fedora, and look forward to seeing the future of Fedora 6. Contributing time to Fedora leaders is important to me as a way to connect with peers from all types of institutions, and because I think it is essential to have academy-driven options for library digital infrastructure. |
Gold Members
3 seats are up for election
| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Gore | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Asst. Dean, Digital Initiatives & Technology Infrastructure | I have spent a large portion of my career being an advocate for open source, open GLAM, preservation and supporting the broad sharing of our collections. As co-chair of the Rights Statements working group, I worked to build an internationally-adopted de facto standard that promotes a common framework for expression of rights information for our digital collections, and I am still working to increase adoption as chair of the implementation task force. My work to build out the hubs network at the Digital Public Library of America connected me with many digital libraries across the country, and I had the chance to advocate for broad sharing of collections and preservation of collections. At Florida State as Associate Dean, I advocated for the adoption of Fedora and Islandora as a statewide platform that supported open standards. Now at UT, I continue to work with the same platforms. I am a current member of the Board of Directors for the Islandora Foundation and have previously served on the Lyrasis Board of Directors and as a founding member of the Open Access Network Board. I have a deep understanding of non-profits in cultural heritage, having worked at DPLA and DPN and having served on non-profit boards. Fedora has been and continues to be a leader among open source platforms in our field, and I have experience working with it as a platform and have admired the work of the community for numerous years. I would welcome the opportunity to serve as a member of Fedora Leaders. |
At-Large Community Members
1 seat is up for election
| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
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