[Pasig-discuss] AVAILABLE: The December 2013 Quarterly Report from Fedora

[Carol Minton Morris]

Feb. 19, 2014
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1gVeJ7v


*From The Fedora Steering Group*

*The Quarterly Report from
Fedora*<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home>
December 2013

*Fedora Development* - In the past quarter, the development team released
two Alpha releases of Fedora 4; detailed release notes are here:

* Fedora 4 Alpha 2
Release<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+2+Release+Notes>
* Fedora 4 Alpha 3
Release<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+3+Release+Notes>

These two releases represent incremental, yet significant steps towards the
production Fedora 4.0. Features of note include an Authorization framework,
Policy-driven storage, support for advanced Search and Triplestore indexes,
Large files, Transactions, and Versioning to name a few. Considerable
effort has also been put towards the creation of user documentation and a
simplified means of deploying Fedora 4. All said, Fedora 4 is now
encouraging the community to download, install, and give the new
feature-set a try.

*Fundraising* - As of December 2013, contributions to DuraSpace earmarked
for Fedora total $413,833, a 139% increase over last year's total of
$173,000.  A total of forty sponsors have contributed, with eleven new
sponsors, fifteen sponsors who have upgraded their investment, three
non-renewals and two sponsor downgrades.  While excellent progress has been
made in the past year, the project is still short of its goal of reaching
the $500,000 annual support level.

*New Web Site* - http://fedorarepository.org - Based on input from the
Fedora community, DuraSpace staff have redesigned the Fedora web site.  The
web site and wiki provide the latest updates about Fedora development,
highlight use case profiles and community engagement, provide updates on
past and upcoming meetings, and includes a variety of resources for the
Fedora community.  Web site users may now view and sort repositories by
repository technology type and find out where they are located (
http://registry.duraspace.org/registry/fedora). The Fedora Steering Group
welcomes suggestions and feedback as we continue to improve communications
and outreach about Fedora.

*Staffing* - The Fedora Project continues to ramp up staffing and support
in order to meet the many goals of the project.  Over the past quarter,
Andrew Woods provided invaluable support as full-time tech lead,
coordinating the efforts of (12) developers at (10) different institutions.
 Many thanks go to Michele Kimpton, Jonathan Markow, Valorie Hollister,
Carol Minton Morris and the rest of the DuraSpace team for coordinating the
sponsorship campaign, budget planning, several conferences, hack fests, and
the new web site redesign. The Fedora Steering Group is currently in the
process of interviewing for the dedicated Fedora product manager, expected
to be hired in the first quarter of 2014.   Working closely with the Fedora
Steering Group, Advisory Group, developers and Fedora community, the
product manager [1] will help set the vision and long-term roadmap for the
product, raise annual funding levels to meet project goals, and be an
effective spokesperson for the project.

*Community Engagement and Outreach* - In the past quarter, developers have
continued to hold daily meetings in conjunction with development sprints,
as well as an "install fest" and week-long hack fest in Austin at the DLF
conference.  Two Fedora Advisory Group meetings were held, one immediately
after DLF in Austin, and one immediately after CNI in Washington, D.C.,
along with multiple Advisory Group conference calls.  In addition to the
web set redesign, mailing lists have been created to merge past community
discussions with current work.

*Upcoming Conferences* - Fedora presentations and meetings will occur at
HydraConnect (San Diego, CA) in January, IDCC (San Francisco, CA) in
February, Code4Lib (Raleigh, NC), RDA (Dublin, Ireland), Fedora DC Users
Group meeting (Washington, D.C.), and the DuraSpace Sponsors Summit
(Washington, D.C.) all in March.

[1] In late January the DuraSpace organization
announced<http://duraspace.org/david-wilcox-new-fedora-product-manager-duraspace-team>
that
David Wilcox accepted a position with DuraSpace as the product manager for
the Fedora project effective February 17, 2014. In his role as product
manager for Fedora David will be working closely with the community and
steering group to set the vision and long term roadmap for Fedora. David
joins Fedora technical director Andrew Woods as dedicated Fedora project
staff.

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
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