The Future of Fedora

Update on Fedora 4

David WilcoxFedora Product Manager

DuraSpace

Fedora 4.0 Beta is out!

We just released the Fedora 4.0 Beta

You can download it here!

The Beta 4.0 feature set is the same as the Production 4.0 feature set.

What’s in the beta?

• Authorization• Durable Storage• Content Modeling• Large File Support• Native Linked Data

Functionality

• Search• Transactions• Triplestore• Versioning• Performance

Timeline• Fedora 4

• Jan. 2013: Fedora 4.0 development begins• July 2013: Fedora 4.0 Alpha release at OR2013• Aug. 2013: Fedora 4.0 Beta dev begins• Jan. 2014: Fedora 4.0 “pre-beta” release • June 2014: Fedora 4.0 Beta release

• Fedora 3• 3.7.0 (performance) and 3.7.1 (security) releases• 3.8.0 Final Fedora 3.x release

Our community is growing

There are over 320 Fedora installations (that we know of!)

Stats for 2013:• 41 Fedora sponsors• 19 active developers• 17 leadership group members• 10 steering group members

Membership in on the rise!

2011 2012 2013 2014$0

$125,000

$250,000

$375,000

$500,000

Building sustainability

• We’re broadening the funding base• More members at lower funding amounts• Raising the overall level of funding

• We hired staff• David Wilcox is the Product Manager• Andrew Woods is the Tech Lead

• We’ve established a governance model• Fedora is governed by a Leadership group

and a Steering group

Governance benefitsLevel of contribution Benefit

$2,500Contributors can nominate and elect one contributor at the $2,500 tier to join the

Leadership Group

$5,000Contributors can nominate and elect two contributors at the $5,000 tier to join the

Leadership Group

$10,000Contributors can nominate and elect four contributors at the $10,000 tier to join the

Leadership Group

$20,000 Contributors guaranteed one seat on the Leadership Group

0.5 FTE Developer Contributors guaranteed one seat on the Leadership Group

The Fedora steering group

• Mark Leggott - University of Prince Edward Island• Eddie Shin – MediaShelf• Robert Cartolano - Columbia University• Robin Ruggaber - University of Virginia• Wolfram Horstmann - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen• Thorny Staples - Smithsonian Institute• Tom Cramer - Stanford University• Matthias Razum - FIZ Karlsruhe• Neil Jefferies - Bodleian Libraries, Oxford• Andrew Woods - DuraSpace• Jonathan Markow - DuraSpace• David Wilcox - DuraSpace

41 sponsors (2013)• 3TU.Datacentrum / TU Delft Library• Arizona State University• Brown University• Charles Darwin University• Colorado Allliance of Research Libraries• Columbia University• Creighton University• FIZ Karlsruhe• Indiana University Bloomington / Indiana

University Purdue University• London School of Economics & Political Science• LYRASIS• National Library of Finland• National Library of Medicine• National Library of Wales• Northeastern University • Northern Illinois University• Northern Territory Library• Northwestern University • Oregon State University• Penn State

• Rutgers University• Smithsonian Institution • Stanford University• Texas A&M Libraries• Texas Digital Library• Université de Liège• University of California Los Angeles• University of California San Diego• University of California Santa Barbara• University of Cambridge• University of Cincinnati• University of Hong Kong• University of Manitoba• University of New South Wales• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill• University of Oxford• University of Prince Edward Island• University of Victoria• University of Virginia • University of Wisconsin• Vanderbilt University Library

In-kind contributors• Columbia University• discoverygarden inc.• FIZ Karlsruhe• Max Planck Digital Library• Media Shelf• Stanford University• University of California,

Los Angeles• University of California,

San Diego• University of New South

Wales• University of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill• University of Prince

Edward Island• University of Texas,

Austin• University of Virginia• University of Wisconsin• Virginia Tech• Yale University

What’s next?

The road to the Fedora 4.0 production release looks like this:

• Acceptance testing• Beta pilots• Community feedback• Developer commitments

Useful links

• Fedora 4 wiki• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF

• Fedora mailing lists• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/

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