Time/Place
Time: 11:00am Eastern Time (US)
Please see the calendar invite for the Zoom link.
Attendees
- Laurie Gemmill Arp
Chris Awre- Thomas Bernhart
- Danny Bernstein
Dan Coughlin- Jon Dunn
- Jennifer Gilbert
Emily Gore- Arran Griffith
Mark Jordan- Rosalyn Metz
Robert Miller- Este Pope
- Scott Prater
Robin Ruggaber- Oliver Schöner
- Timothy Shearer
Jennifer Vinopal- Kate Dohe
- Heather Greer Klein
- Stacey Erdman
- Jakov Vežić
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Agenda
Topic Welcome Orientation Session A welcome and orientation to Fedora Governance. Goal: Provide a general overview of Fedora Governance and bring new/returning members up to speed on current topics of discussion. Arran Tim Este Laurie Technology Update A brief update on the status of Fedora 6.1 + details on the Camel Toolbox Governance Model Considerations We will present the status of each level of Fedora Governance to assess effectiveness of meeting frequency and participation availability. Goal: Discussion of the roles of both Governance groups, and seek agreement on proposals for change. Arran Strategic Planning Sub-Committee Provide an outline of the commitment and proposed objectives of the Strategic Planning Sub-Committee. Goal: Identify members of Governance interested in joining the sub-committee and begin planning for meetings in January. Tim EsteTime Lead 5 mins Arran 40 mins 15 mins Danny Break (10 mins) 10 mins 15 mins 40 mins Wrap-up, Action Items 5 mins Arran
Previous Action Items
Notes
Orientation Session
Brief history of Fedora Timothy Shearer
- Late 90s: discussion about how a Repository System might look
- 2001 formation of Fedora project
- 2008 Fedora 3 was released: relatively stable, stored objects and their relationships on disk (key selling point)
- 2014 Fedora 4 was released: transition from XML to describe object to RDF; entirely new infrastructure (Modeshape); created some challenges to migrate from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4
- 2021 Fedora 6 was released: introduction of OCFL to store all repository data on disk once again
Introduction to LYRASIS as our organizational home Laurie Gemmill Arp
Started back in 1936
1590+ member organizations
Projects:
- ArchivesSpace
- CollectionSpace
- Fedora Commons
- VIVO
- DSpace
- The Palace Project
Work of Lyrasis:
- Business infrastructure
- Financial management
- Program infrastructure
- Membership management
- HR and staffing
Commitment and responsibilities Arran Griffith
- Fedora Governance Model: Roles and Responsibilities
- Meetings: typically once per quarter
- Important communication channels:
- Google mailing list
- Leaders Slack channel
- One of the most important role of Leadership Group members: advocate for Fedora 6
Current affairs Este Pope
- Decline in some of the larger memberships recently
- But also new organizations becoming members
- Important for the nearer future of Fedora:
- Increase adoption of Fedora 6 (bring existing Fedora 3/4/5 users to Fedora 6, bring in new users)
- Modernize organizational structures for the Fedora project, modernize membership model
- Other revenue sources?
- Find people for open positions:
- Product management
- Technical lead
Governance Model Considerations Arran Griffith
Leadership group: 14 members currently (based on the number of project members)
Steering group: fixed at 9 members (all part of the Leadership group as well, because steering members are voted out of leadership group members)
Membership levels: https://www.lyrasis.org/membership/Pages/duraspace-membership.aspx
Items to discuss:
- Alternative organizational models (big overlap between the two groups):
Suggestions:- reduce number of members in steering
- merge steering and leadership
- combine leadership group meetings with the leaders/committers call
Technology Update Danny Bernstein
New Fedora releases:
- 6.1.0: Fedora 6.1.0 Release Notes
- Performance improvements
- Bugfixes
- Camel Toolbox: https://github.com/fcrepo-exts/fcrepo-camel-toolbox/releases/tag/fcrepo-camel-toolbox-6.0.0
- Compatible with Fedora 6.x
- Easier deployment (no longer requires OSGI runtime like Karaf)
- Docker Image
- Docker Compose setup (includes Fedora 6, Camel Toolbox, Solr Search Index and Fuseki SPARQL Endpoint
- Integration of HTTP service
- Migration Utilities: https://github.com/fcrepo-exts/migration-utils/releases/tag/migration-utils-6.1.0
- Migration Validator: https://github.com/fcrepo-exts/fcrepo-migration-validator/releases/tag/fcrepo-migration-validator-1.1.0
What's next?
- Survey about future development of Fedora: https://forms.gle/48rR9R6Zt1294qgC9
- Deal with issues with auto-versioning (support for squashing versions)
Strategic Planning Sub-Committee Este Pope Timothy Shearer
Current subgroups:
Those were all paused to focus work on the Planning Sub-Committee.
- 5-6 meetings, about 1 hour, January - March 2022
- Outcomes: Report with recommendations for focus of Fedora Project for next 18 months
- Technology roadmap
- Membership models
- Engagement of users
- Key questions:
- How to we fund Fedora?
- How do we bring everybody up to Fedora 6?
- Goal: Gather group members till christmas
- Interested people from leadership group:
- Kate Dohe
- Jakov Vežić
- Heather Greer Klein
- Thomas Bernhart
Action Items
