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🦃 Happy early Thanksgiving to our U.S. community members! As fall settles in, there’s a renewed sense of energy and anticipation in the air. The Fedora Program Team has been
hard at work on several exciting projects and collaborating closely with our community partners. Read on to learn what we’ve been working on, and where you can find us next!
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Virtual Fedora Showcase 2025
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The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fedora Showcase is right around the corner!
For the third consecutive year, we are excited to host this annual virtual event to bring our users together to share their work and collaborate with one another. And the best
part is: it’s FREE!
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Details
Dates: November 18-21, 2025
Time: ~10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Eastern (times subject to change)
Cost: FREE
Visit
the Event Wiki for
more.
Program Now Available!
We are so excited to share this year’s programming!
View
the program.
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Welcome to the Incoming Fedora Governance Chair and Chair-Elect
On behalf of Fedora Governance, we are pleased to officially welcome the incoming Chair and Chair-Elect of Fedora Governance,Scott Prater, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
Alexander Berg-Weiß, University Library of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The
Fedora
Governance Group is made up of elected representatives from our
member
institutions and the broader community, who work together to guide Fedora’s priorities and strategic direction. The Chair and Chair-Elect play key leadership
roles, helping connect the Fedora program, Lyrasis, and the wider governance team.
Scott is moving into his role as Chair after serving one year as Chair-Elect alongside Kate Dohe (University of Maryland Library). Alexander is new to this leadership role and
is the first representative from outside of North America to hold a Chair or Chair-Elect position.
Read
the official announcement here.
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Conferences
Digital Libraries: Tools for(ever) Digital Preservation Conference
In early October, the Fedora Program Team had the opportunity to participate in an online conference hosted by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation
Center at the National Library of Poland. The conference, Digital
Libraries: Tools for(ever) Digital Preservation Conference
brought together open source software repository solutions to discuss and share how their platforms are supporting preservation around the world.
Samvera Connect 2025
Making a pivot from in-person to virtual, Samvera Connect took place in late October, and we were fortunate to be able to participate in the exciting annual community event.
The Fedora Program Manager was on-hand to give a community update as well as share information on the progress of the Hyrax Fedora 6 Working Group deliverables.
All
conference content and recordings can be found on the Samvera Wiki.
PHAIDRACon
Program Developer, Dan Field, hit the road at the end of the month on his way to Padua, Italy to give a Fedora community update and participate in
PHAIDRACon.
This one-day, in-person conference brought PHAIDRA users together to provide updates, and share their work at the beautiful Botanical Gardens of Padua. The event was hosted by PHAIDRA and the University of Padua.
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Fedora Celebrates World Preservation Day
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On November 6, the Fedora community celebrated
World
Preservation Day 2025
along with preservation practitioners around the world, by sharing the following
blog
post. In this post, we encouraged users to reflect on the theme of “Why Preserve” and pause to think about the priceless digital content
being preserved by Fedora implementations around the world.
We invited readers to participate in an interactive activity, helping us create a “Word Cloud” centered around this year’s theme that we will showcase at Virtual Fedora Showcase
later in November.
Contribute
to the montage here.
Join us today and pledge your commitment to Preservation
In conjunction with World Preservation Day 2025, we also launched a new initiative to further support the sustainability of Fedora. We now invite you
to make a one-time donation directly to the Fedora program. These donations will help us sustain current program work, secure on-going development, and ensure that users around the world can continue protect their digital collections with Fedora.
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While one-time donations do not replace participation in the
Fedora
Membership Program
they can act as a supplementary source of revenue for the program, allowing us to engage more users and advance development efforts faster and
more effectively. So please consider how you can help.
Fedora is a community that cares. Cares about people, technology, and the future of digital preservation. Thank you for celebrating
World Digital Preservation Day 2025 with us, and being part of our shared commitment to protecting the world’s digital knowledge.
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