This is the February 2020 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
The upcoming Islandora and Fedora Camp at Arizona State University, February 24-26, 2020 is nearly full - register today to secure your seat!
Islandora and Fedora Camp, hosted by Arizona State University Libraries, offers everyone a chance to dive in and learn all about the latest versions of Islandora and Fedora. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Islandora or Fedora experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive Islandora and Fedora learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers from both communities.
The curriculum will be delivered by a knowledgeable team of instructors from the Islandora and Fedora communities, including:
The first 2020 Fedora 6 Sprint is now complete. The team focused on resource management (CRUD) operations, Archival Groups, containment, and rebuildability. This was a 1 week sprint with 6 participants.
High-level accomplishments:
We'd like to thank the following people and their institutions for contributing to the sprint:
The latest OCFL community meeting took place on January 8. Notes and audio from the call are available online. The meeting focused on a review of recent community work, including the Fedora 6 implementation, as well as a review of the 1.0 specification roadmap. The next community call will take place on February 12.
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!
Registration is open for the next Samvera Camp at UNC Chapel Hill, April 14-17, 2020. Samvera Camp is open to all developers interested in building skills working with the Samvera technology stack, and is especially focused on the needs of those who are new to the Samvera stack and community.
ILIDE is a major digital library conference held every year in Slovakia; it draws an international group of participants & speakers, with heavy attendance from Eastern and Central Europe. This year's conference takes place April 27-29 and will include a presentation on Fedora 6 and the OCFL from David Wilcox, Program Leader for Fedora.
The South Central States Fedora User Group met at the University of Houston on January 29-30. Each of the institutions represented provided an update on their work with Fedora, and the group also received online updates from representatives of the Avalon, Samvera, and Islandora communities. Slides from the presentations are available on the wiki.
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Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of LYRASIS 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 of LYRASIS in support of Fedora, please join us today!
We would like to welcome the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as our newest member in support of Fedora at the Copper level. LMU Munich is currently developing a Fedora implementation with over 80,000 datasets that they will be prototyping over the next few months.
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.