This is the November 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.
Software development
Community-driven Features
Web Access Control
Web Access Control [2], an interoperable, linked data approach to authorization, is currently being implemented in Fedora by a group of community stakeholders. The design page [3] outlines the currently supported use cases, and a second code sprint is already underway to support additional use cases (listed under Sprint 2 - Phase 1). Associated documentation [4] and common scenarios [5] that can be used to demonstrate the current functionality are available, and a call to validate the output of the current sprint will go out to the community shortly.
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 [8]).
Asynchronous Storage
Stakeholders from several institutions held a meeting [9] to discuss implementing support for asynchronous storage media (e.g. Amazon Glacier, Hierarchical Storage Management systems). The initial actions from the meeting include reviewing and liking/commenting on existing use cases [10] and developing a template for further use case contributions.
If you are interested in support for asynchronous storage media, please review the use cases and plan to 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 met on October 26 [14] and November 9 [15]. If you are interested in participating, please attend the next meeting (TBD [16]).
Conferences and events
Past Events
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
CNI
References
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