This is the May 2020 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
NEWS
Fedora 6 Rebuild Demo 

We put together another Fedora 6 demo video to showcase a recently added feature. This demo explains the repository rebuild functionality and demonstrates how it works. This new feature demonstrates Fedora's commitment to a self-describing, long-term-preservation persistence layer and increases Fedora's resilience in disaster recovery scenarios.

You can find the  demo video on YouTube . This demo follows previous videos where we demonstrated the use of the migration tools to transform a Fedora 3 on disk representation to OCFL, creating RDF resources via the Fedora API and seeing those resources represented on disk as OCFL Objects, how to create binary resources and see how they look on disk, and how to create and manage archival groups. You can find all these videos  in this playlist .
We'd like  to thank the following people and their institutions for contributing to the latest code sprint:
  • Danny Bernstein, LYRASIS
  • Ben Pennell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Jared Whiklo, University of Manitoba
  • Peter Winckles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fedora 6 Code Sprints 

Through December of 2020 we will be holding one-week-long Fedora 6 mini-sprints during the first week of each month.

This will allow for consistent progress towards the Fedora 6 release, as well as a clear schedule for you to plan towards. If you miss one month, you can join the next!

The  May 4-8 sprint was focused on:
  • Simple search
  • Migration tooling
  • Web Access Controls
Please add your name to  any of the upcoming sprint dates on the wiki.

Activities in Related Communities 

Islandora
Samvera
Oxford Common File Layout

The latest  OCFL community meeting took place on April 8.  Notes and  video from the call are available online. The meeting focused on editorial updates, including validator software and formalized validation codes, and a detailed demonstration of the University of Technology Sydney's application work over OCFL. The next community call will take place on May 13.

CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
In an attempt to simplify the task of keeping up with Fedora-related meetings and events, a Fedora calendar is available to the community as  HTML and  iCal.

If you have not already joined the  fedora-project Slack workspace please start by visiting the  self-registration form. Come join the conversation!

Samvera Virtual Connect

Samvera Virtual Connect (SVC), which takes place May 14-15, is an opportunity for Samvera Community participants to gather online to touch base on the progress of community efforts at a roughly halfway point between face-to-face Samvera Connect meetings.  More information, including registration details, is available on the wiki.

MEMBERSHIP
Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. This year's membership campaign has a goal of raising $500,000 to fund staff to work on Fedora and provide technical leadership, direct strategic planning, organize community outreach, and coordinate timely software releases. Membership also provides opportunities to participate in  project governance  and influence the direction of the software. If your institution is not yet a member in support of Fedora,  please join us today !
REGISTER YOUR REPOSITORY
Is your repository listed in t he  registry ?  Help us maintain reliable information on the community of Fedora users around the wo rld by  registering your repository  t oday. You can also request an update to an existing entry by selecting your entry and filling out the online form.
GET INVOLVED
Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort is by helping resolve outstanding bugs. If you have an interest in gaining a better understanding of the Fedora code base, or a specific interest in any of these bugs, please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.