This is the October 2015 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. Here is an easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort:

As always, your development contributions are extremely encouraged. Please sign up for one of the ongoing maintenance code sprints [1] or add a comment to any of these tickets [2] if you are interested in understanding better what exactly is needed.

Software development

Community-driven Features

Web Access Control

Web Access Control, an interoperable, linked data approach to authorization, is currently being implemented in Fedora by a group of community stakeholders. The design page outlines the currently supported use cases, and a code sprint is already underway to support an additional batch of use cases (listed under Phase 2). Associated documentation and common scenarios that can be used to demonstrate the current functionality are available, and a call to validate the output of the current sprint will go out to the community shortly.

API Extension Architecture 

API Extension stakeholders have held numerous meetings over the last few months, and have collected 30 use cases related to the API Extension Architecture. The group has agreed on a methodology for evaluating use cases, and has begun to review them in order to distill a set of requirements.

If you are interested in the API Extension Architecture, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [10] and attend the next meeting (TBD).

Asynchronous Storage

Stakeholders from several institutions held a meeting to discuss implementing support for asynchronous storage media (e.g. Amazon Glacier, Hierarchical Storage Management systems). The initial actions from the meeting include reviewing and liking/commenting on existing use cases and developing a template for further use case contributions. 

If you are interested in support for asynchronous storage media, please review the use cases and plan to attend the next meeting (TBD).

Community Initiatives

Hydra/Islandora Interoperability

Conferences and events

Events in October

DLF Forum

Mid-West Fedora Users Group Meeting

Islandora Camp Connecticut

eResearch Australasia

DC Area Fedora User Group Meeting

The DC Area Fedora User Group, which meets twice annually, held its Fall meeting [18] on October 7-8 at the Univesity of Maryland. The meeting included both user group presentations and a Fedora 4 workshop. Presentation and workshop slides can be found on the wiki [18].

Upcoming Events

iPres

MCN

Fedora Camp

Mid-Atlantic Fedora Users Group Meeting

References

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