Fedora Futures @ NEFUG 2013
At the New England Fedora Users Group, Ben Armintor presented the Fedora Futures project. The presentation is available on Google Drive.
Fedora Futures Project Welcomes New Technical Lead
The DuraSpace organization and the Fedora Futures Project are pleased to announce that Andrew Woods will take over as the new Technical Lead for Fedora effective May 15, 2013. In this role he will provide technical leadership for the Fedora Futures Project. Woods joined the DuraSpace organization in early 2009 as a Fedora committer. Since then he has helped establish the D.C. Area Fedora Users Group, been a project co-lead on DuraCloud, and worked in various technical and advisory capacities within DPN, APTrust, Chronopolis, and NDSA. more ->
Fedora Futures @ CNI 2012
At the CNI Fall 2012 Membership Meeting, members of the Fedora Futures initiative announced and led a discussion on the future of the Fedora Commons repository. This included a review of the current state of Fedora, the proponents and objectives of the Futures initiative, and a review on the use cases, stakeholders, high level requirements and processes which are guiding the project. The presentation is available on SlideShare and embedded, below.
Fedora Repository Futures: Towards an Evolutionary Development Roadmap
In recent months, many members of the Fedora community–both developers and stakeholders–have expressed a desire to refresh the product's vision, and to produce an evolutionary short- and mid-term development roadmap for the repository. The idea here is that while Fedora's conceptual architecture is proven and still sound, the underlying technology needs to become more responsive to a wide range of current and emerging requirements, more performant and scalable, and capable of advancing in a more agile development framework. The feeling is that this work would require considerably more effort and a different approach than is possible using our current model of volunteer developer contributions led and coordinated by the DuraSpace organization.
At the 2012 Open Repostitories Conference a group of Fedora stakeholders self-organized to plan some post-conference, informal discussions about "Fedora Futures". That group, encompassing representation from some large institutions, major projects like Hydra, Islandora, APTrust, and eSciDoc, plus DuraSpace, met last week for an initial conversation to explore these topics. The outcome was very positive. The group found a lot of common ground and interest on possible approaches to improving Fedora. Most importantly, a commitment was expressed to mobilize resources in the short term to organize a sustained effort to scale up the development of Fedora.
As this work takes shape, the group will reach out to the wider Fedora community of developers and other institutional stakeholders for feedback, recommendations, and support. This is the place to come for project updates and news
Edwin Shin to be Technical Lead for New and Improved Fedora Repository Platform Initiative
The DuraSpace organization is pleased to announce an agreement with Registered Service Provider MediaShelf (http://yourmediashelf.com/) to hire Edwin Shin (http://yourmediashelf.com/who-we-are/edwin-shin/) on an interim basis as Fedora Project Technical Lead. Eddie will work with DuraSpace and a committee of stakeholders who recently got together to define a software project for making substantial improvements to Fedora through mid-year. At that time a permanent Fedora project lead will be engaged to continue development of "Fedora Futures".
Working with developers and the extended community, Eddie will be primarily responsible for helping the community develop the product vision, describing product functionality, and preparing an implementation plan. A number of Fedora committers will work with Eddie to achieve these goals. Additionally, he will manage and participate in Fedora committer meetings to ensure that everyone who is working on Fedora Repository platform improvements is informed and able to offer input.
If you would like the Fedora developers at your institution to participate in the project, please contact Eddie directly by email: edwin.shin@yourmediashelf.com. If you would like to find out how to otherwise support the project, please email Jonathan Markow: jjmarkow@duraspace.org.
Project Team
See the Project Team page for the growing list of project participants
