When

17-18 December 2018
10:00am - 4:00pm each day

Remote Participation

https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/fedora

Where

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Milton S Eisenhower Library M Level Digital Research and Curation Center (DRCC) Conference Room

Precise location on google maps - head for the security desk, which is on the northern side end of the floor.  The DRCC is located in staff areas (through the hallway to the right as you face the circulation desk) behind the security desk.  Tell security guards you are here for the Fedora Users Group meeting at the DRCC

Visitors will need to provide a valid photo ID

Arriving by Metro/Bus

Homewood Shuttle

Purple Charm City Circulator

Arriving by Car

Campus Visitor Parking 

Lodging

Closest hotel is the Inn at the Colonnade

Meals

Morning coffee and snacks will be provided.

There are many wonderful lunch options around campus,

What to Bring

A laptop for hackathon activities

Attendees

If you plan to attend the meeting, please add your name below.

• Aaron Birkland Johns Hopkins University
• Joshua Westgard, University of Maryland
• Doron Shalvi , National Library of Medicine
• Ben Wallberg , University of Maryland (Monday only)
• Jennifer Gilbert, National Library of Medicine (Monday only)
• Hanh Vu Johns Hopkins University
• Jim Martino Johns Hopkins university
• Lindsay Franz National Library of Medicine
• Mark Patton, Johns Hopkins university
• Karen Hanson, Johns Hopkins university
• Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins university
• Peter Eichman, University of Maryland
• Aseem Dhakal. NASA Goddard Library

Agenda/Presentations

The theme of this Fedora user's group meeting is improving Fedora based on experience in the field.  With more institutions having experience with Fedora 4+ in production, or interested in adapting fedora 4+, now is an excellent opportunity to translate this experience into improvements in Fedora.  In that context, the format of this meeting will be a series of presentations, updates, and/or discussions, followed by a hackathon with the goal of producing code, design, or documentation.

Possible discussion/presentation/update topics

(please add items here.  Feel free to comment or add your name if a topic is of particular interest)

• The Public Access Submission System (PASS) JHU's experience and pain points
  • Link is to a google doc with various notes from our experience.  This would be the basis of a presentation and one of many inputs for possible hackathon topics
• Fedora from a sysadmin perspective - configuring, deploying, or maintenance (e.g. backup/restore). 
• Performance - experience reports, workarounds, and wins.

Hackathon tasks

TBD.  This will be determined by a discussion at the end of the first day, based on  shared interests, experience, and practical consideration.  The goal at the end of the first day will be to produce a concrete set of tasks for individuals or teams to accomplish on the second day.  Ideally, these tasks will be inclusive of the talent in the room.  Possible areas include software development, design, or documentation updates. 

Schedule

(proposed.  Feel free to add a presentation to the calendar, or ad it to the discussion/presentation topic list above)

Day 1

Day 2