This is the April 2019 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. 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.

Register Your Repository

Is your repository listed in the DuraSpace 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. 

Membership

Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of DuraSpace members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. We will be kicking off this year's membership campaign with 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 DuraSpace in support of Fedora, please join us today!

Fedora Camp in Atlanta

You are invited to join experienced trainers at Fedora Camp to be held May 20-22 at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Fedora Camp, hosted by Emory University Libraries, offers everyone a chance to dive in and learn all about Fedora. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Fedora experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive Fedora learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers and Fedora gurus.

Previous Fedora Camps include the inaugural camp held at Duke University, the West Coast camp at CalTech, NYC camp at Columbia U, Texas camp at UT Austin, and NASA Camp at Goddard Space Flight Center. The camp curriculum will provide a comprehensive overview of Fedora by exploring such topics as:

  • Core & Integrated features
  • Data modeling and linked data
  • Samvera and Islandora
  • Migrating to Fedora
  • Deploying Fedora in production
  • Preservation Services

The curriculum will be delivered by a knowledgeable team of instructors from the Fedora community including, David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager, Andrew Woods and Danny Bernstein, Fedora Technical Leads, and Jared Whiklo from the University of Manitoba.

View a sample agenda.

Register today and join us in Atlanta!

Designing a Migration Path Grant Update

The Designing a Migration Path grant work continued in March with the completion of several deliverables: 

These documents provide context on the current state of Fedora 3.x usage and migration tools, along with reviews of the Fedora API and the Oxford Common File Layout in terms of their potential impact on migrations. Keep an eye on this newsletter for monthly updates on our progress.

Software development 

Community-driven Activity

Oxford Common File Layout

A 0.2 (Alpha) release of the OCFL spec was recently announced. You are invited to provide feedback, which will be discussed on future community calls.

The most recent OCFL editors call took place on Wednesday, March 20. Notes are available online. This call included reviewing and closing use cases that have been addressed in the specification, and reviewing open specification issues targeting the Beta release.

Please join the ocfl-community mailing list for further updates.

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!

Upcoming Events

CNI

Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually to explore new technologies, content, and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology policy issues, and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects. The next CNI Spring Membership Meeting will take place April 8-9 in St. Louis, MO. The agenda will include presentations from both Fedora and OCFL representatives. Details can be found on the CNI website.

ACRL

The next ACRL conference takes place April 10-13 in Cleveland, OH. Fedora Tech Lead Danny Bernstein will deliver an introductory Fedora workshop at the conference on Friday, April 12. Please register in advance to attend.

DC Area Fedora Users Meeting

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