Time/Place

Time: 11:00am Eastern Time (US)

Please see the calendar invite for the Zoom link.

Attendees

() Indicates Note Taker

Topic	Time	Lead
Welcome	5 mins	Arran
Orientation Session A welcome and orientation to Fedora Governance. Brief history of Fedora Introduction to LYRASIS as our organizational home Commitment and responsibilities Current affairs Goal: Provide a general overview of Fedora Governance and bring new/returning members up to speed on current topics of discussion.	40 mins	Arran Tim Este Laurie
Technology Update A brief update on the status of Fedora 6.1 + details on the Camel Toolbox	15 mins	Danny
Break (10 mins)	10 mins
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.	15 mins	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.	40 mins	Tim Este
Wrap-up, Action Items	5 mins	Arran

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

Started back in 1936

1590+ member organizations

Projects:

Work of Lyrasis:

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

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)

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

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?

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