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Happy New Year, to our entire Fedora Community! As we move into 2025, we are
thrilled to bring you the first newsletter of the year. It’s packed with updates on the latest achievements in Fedora’s technology, highlights of our community's activities, and new opportunities to engage and contribute. Whether you're a long-time contributor
or just discovering Fedora, there's something for everyone. Read on to explore what we’ve got in store for 2025.
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News
Introduction to Fedora Workshop
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To kick start 2025, we are excited to share the re-launch of virtual Fedora trainings! These virtual workshop-style trainings will be hosted by Lyrasis Learning,
and facilitated by the Fedora Program Team. This is a perfect opportunity to engage new users with the Fedora software, brush up on Fedora skills or simply learn what all Fedora can do. These hands-on trainings will be FREE for all attendees, so don’t miss
out on reserving your spot.
Details:
Introduction to Fedora Workshop
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. EST
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Documentation Review Project
The Fedora Program Team is calling on
all community members to help improve the Fedora 6.x documentation. Whether you’re a seasoned contributor, a technical writer, or just passionate about Fedora and want to make an impact, your input is invaluable. More details can be found on the
Fedora
website.
Who can participate?
Everyone! No matter your skill set or experience level, there’s a role for you.
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Writers can help refine the language.
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Developers can ensure technical correctness.
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Newcomers bring a fresh perspective that helps us identify areas for improvement.
How to get involved
Session Details:
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Meet every second Thursday at 10 a.m. EST
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Next scheduled meeting: Thurs., Jan 23 at 10 a.m. EST
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Technology Updates
6.5.1 Release
In December, the Fedora 6.5.1 release candidate was issued for community testing. Over the break, testing went well and all feedback has indicated that the new features
are working as intended. We plan to release the production version in the coming days so watch for this announcement!
The website, which hosts various static content relating to the ontologies and specifications within the Fedora projects, was previously hosted on Amazon Web Services
— until now! Lyrasis’ Enterprise IT team made the recommendation to move this content to GitHub’s ‘Pages’ infrastructure
as a cost-savings measure and to bring it closer to the platform where the fcrepo repository resides. The work to move the site onto GitHub is now complete, and hopefully by the time you read this, the domain name changes will be in place.
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Ongoing work
The Tech Team has begun investigating the initial OCFL indexing and reindexing subsystem to identify areas of opportunity after some users reported a dip in performance
on long processing jobs. As we work through this, we will keep you informed and would encourage any additional feedback on this issue be brought to
Fedora
Slack (#Tech channel) or via the Tech Listserv (fedor...@googlegroups.com).
Ben Pennell, from UNC Chapel Hill, has been doing some great work on bringing back a requested feature from Fedora 4 and 5 where the “hasMember” relationship can
optionally be returned in a request, thus allowing for parent-child and child-parent relationships to be retrieved. This was another popular request from the community that we are hoping to bring you in the next release beyond 6.5.1.
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Community Activities
AI Discussion Series
The Fedora community, in collaboration with the Fedora Governance Group, continues to host a series of AI discussions for anyone interested in exploring the evolving
impact of AI on repositories, infrastructure and the work we're doing within our institutions. These sessions offer a collaborative space to tackle the challenges and opportunities AI brings.
This month we broadened the invitation to other repository communities, and welcomed attendees from DSpace, VIVO, Islandora and the Samvera communities. We continue
to hold space for any interested individuals to join us. This is how you can participate:
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Next Meeting: Monday, February 3, at 11 a.m. EST
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Meetings will take place monthly on the first Monday of each month.
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Website Content Working Group
The Website Content Working Group is a small group of community members who are responsible for updating, maintaining and creating new content for the recently redesigned
Fedora website. The
charter
and 2024-2025 deliverables can be found on the Fedora wiki.
The Working Group is now seeking new contributors to join us. The commitment is flexible. We generally meet monthly and work asynchronously, and we welcome anyone
interested in helping create content for our global community. No deep technical Fedora background is required. Reach out to Arran (arran.g...@lyrasis.org)
if you are interested in learning more.
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Fedora Registry
Help us understand Fedora’s global footprint. In order to see the most accurate information about Fedora installations, we are asking all users to submit their updated
Fedora information via our new registry submission form below.
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This new form allows you to register multiple Fedora instances in one submission, eliminating the need for multiple entries.
The registry’s goal is to help us understand our install base, and what versions of Fedora are being used globally. This critical information allows the program
team to continue to provide the support necessary for our entire community of users.
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