The following Fedora community members have been were nominated for this year's the 2019 Fedora Leadership Group election. There were slightly fewer nominees than open seats, so the Fedora Leadership Group voted to elect all of the nominees to the group for a one-year term.
Bronze Members
| Name | Organization | Title/Role | Personal Statement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa Anez | Islandora Foundation | Project and Community Manager | As the Project & Community Manager for the Islandora Foundation, I have worked with Fedora since 2012. During that time, I have worked with the Islandora developer and adopter community to manage the challenges of transitioning Islandora from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 and beyond, while continuing to advance Fedora as a key component of Islandora. In the wake of the recent release of the first version of Islandora to be fully compatible with Fedora 5, I will be actively working with our community to support migration, and consulting and responding to their needs and concerns for future versions of Fedora, especially Fedora 6 (and OCFL). In taking a place on the Leadership Group I would look to represent the Islandora community in Fedora’s strategic goals, and to better communicate the Fedora roadmap and its benefits to the Islandora community. |
| Chris Awre | University of Hull | Head of Information Services | As a long-term adopter of Fedora (since 2005), and advocate for its use in the UK, I have championed the benefits of Fedora as a digital repository platform and supported those exploring its use for a variety of different purposes. I believe in the repository platform being considered as infrastructure rather than application, and seek to refresh how repositories are viewed institutionally to better establish them in this way. I am also a founder member of the Hydra Project (now Samvera Community) in 2008 and recognise the important link between Fedora and the services making use of it to exploit its capabilities as a key element of the future of Fedora. In continuing with a role on the Leadership Group I would look to better understand and support the development of the community as it moves to Fedora 6, highlighting the strengths that make Fedora a valuable investment. |
| Thomas Bernhart | Docuteam GmbH | Project Manager | I have been working for Docuteam since 2014. Docuteam is a provider for archiving and information management services in Switzerland that implements digital archives with Fedora in Europe, mostly in Switzerland. We started using Fedora in 2009 and, since then, have created a set of open source Java/Ruby applications to provide ingest operations and handle submission and dissemination information packages. We've prepared to move on to Fedora 4, but postponed finalizing and migrating several times based on the Fedora roadmap. One of our main goals for the nearer future is to migrate our infrastructure to Fedora 6, which is why we're eager to participate in early adopter tests - especially for migration from 3 to 6. We're also working on a fully linked data-based standard for archival descriptions and a software stack that implements/uses this standard on top of Fedora. I've always been very interested in open source software projects, and I would be happy to contribute to the future development of the Fedora project. I have a good overview of the needs of digital archives which I'm happy to feed back into the fedora community. |
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