Griffith "Fedora: How a Software Need Created A Community"
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Fedora is an open-source repository system designed for managing and disseminating digital content, particularly in libraries and archives. The document outlines the growth of the Fedora community and its governance, funding, and development history, highlighting key milestones and the importance of engaging with members. Future efforts focus on sustainability and continuous improvement in response to community needs.
Griffith "Fedora: How a Software Need Created A Community"
- 1. Fedora: How A Software Need Created A Community Arran Griffith - Fedora Program Manager, LYRASIS
- 2. “Fedora is a robust, modular, open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content. It is especially suited for digital libraries and archives, both for access and preservation. It is also used to provide specialized access to very large and complex digital collections of historic and cultural materials as well as scientific data.” What is Fedora?
- 3. Program in 2022 Current Stats: Fedora Version 6.2 ● 6.0 was released in June 2021 ● Represented the largest major release since Fedora 4 350+ known installations across the globe ● Based on self-recorded data from LYRASIS DuraSpace Registry ~53 Active Members ● Funding comes solely from a tiered membership model ● Open source project means funding is entirely volunteer Core Committers - all volunteer ● 9 currently active core committers Governance Group – all volunteer ● Meet every 2nd month Active Communications Channels ● Slack ● Google Group listservs ● Monthly newsletter Paid Program Team ● Program Manager - Arran Griffith ● PT Contract Developer ● 10-15% time Tech Lead
- 4. Rewind
- 5. 1997: Sandy Payette & Carl Lagoze create first FEDORA at Cornell ● Identified a need to create a repository architecture to suit the changing needs of repository management 1998 - Fedora reference implementation developed and made available 1998 - Payette & Lagoze publish initial Fedora article 2000: Thornton Staples and Rosser Wayland at UVA implement first prototype digital library system using Fedora architecture 2001: Cornell & UVA receive a grant from the Mellon Foundation to build open source Fedora FEDORA: Flexible, Extensive, Digital Object Repository Architecture And the rest is history!
- 6. Building Community ● 1+1 = many ● Listening ● Building Trust ● Addressing decreasing engagement ● Looking to the experts
- 7. Funding ● Grants ● Mergers ○ 2009 DSpace & Fedora Communities became DuraSpace ○ 2019 LYRASIS & DuraSpace come together and Fedora gains LYRASIS as an organizational home along with a suit of other DuraSpace Community Supported Programs ● Membership Model for Funding ○ Tiered model gives increasing value added add-ons at each level ○ Decreases in membership funding have forced us to get more creative
- 8. Adapting Technology ● Do what you do best ○ Build trust over time by staying constant in your directives ● What you do in response to bad decisions will determine your future ○ Fedora 6 was developed in response to the community’s request to return to Fedora 3 roots ■ Nearly 3 years to release, but needed to do it right ● Bad choices happen ○ What will you do when they do? How will you adapt? ○ Fedora 3 → 4 was a necessary change, but had complex outcomes ■ Trust was lost
- 9. Looking Forward Fedora 6.0 released in June 2021 ● Continue to support migrations and maintain software Community Technology Survey ● Send out multiple times a year to poll for features and remain actively engaged It Takes a Village (ITAV) Sustainability Planning ● ITAV is an IMLS Grant-funded project to help open source communities identify areas of opportunity and reach program sustainability ● Formation of Strategic Planning Sub-Committee in Jan 2021 to undergo this work New avenues for continued communication and engagement
- 10. Looking Forward
- 11. Thank You Arran Griffith - arran.griffith@lyrasis.org