HatCheck is a quarterly newsletter published by Fedora Commons by and for communities of Fedora users, developers, vendors and decision makers provided to facilitate the exchange of news, events, information and achievements. Your comments and content are most welcome! Please reply with your news for the December 9, 2008 issue of HatCheck.
In this issue (online here):
Fedora Commons Overview by Sandy Payette
Strategic Developments in Our Dynamic Open Source Communities
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/09/kudos-and-thanks-to-our-dynamic-open-source-communities/
Engineering Punchlist by Dan Davis
Three-part Development Focus for Fall 2008
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/09/three-part-development-focus-for-fall-2008
News
-NOW AVAILABLE: Production-Ready Fedora 3.0 Fits With the Web
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/30/now-available-production-ready-fedora-30-fits-with-the-web/
-DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Form Working Collaboration
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/29/dspace-foundation-and-fedora-commons-form-working-collaboration/
-WGBH Boston Pilots Fedora-Based Moving Image Archives Project by Thornton Staples
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/03/wgbh-boston-pilots-fedora-based-moving-image-archives-project/
-Mulgara 2.0.5 Released
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/08/mulgara-205-released/
-Muradora DRAMA Team Change of Focus by Chi Nguyen
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/27/muradora-drama-team-to-change-focus/
-iRods Storage Module for Fedora From SDSC
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/28/new-irods-storage-module-for-fedora-from-sdsc/
-Tools and Standards that Power the National Science Digital Library
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/08/introducing-tools-and-standards-that-power-the-national-science-digital-library-nsdl/
Events
-The first Fedora EU User Group meeting in Aarthus
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/09/first-fedora-eu-user-group-meeting-next-week/
-aDORe/Fedora Discussion at Upcoming Fedora Day in Aarhus
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/02/adorefedora-discussion-at-upcoming-fedora-day-in-aarthus/
-”Infrastructure for Future Research” Meeting at Swedish National Library in Stockholm
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/26/fedora-users-meet-at-swedish-national-library-in-stockholm/
-SPARC Digital Repositories Fall Meeting
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/06/24/thoought-leaders-in-policy-innovation-and-advocacy-fedora-commons-to-help-support-sparc-dr-fall-meeting/
-”On the Record” A Global Resource Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of News
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/03/on-the-record-a-global-resources-forum-on-electronic-media-and-the-preservation-of-news/
Bookmarks
-”Installing Fedora in Two Minutes”
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/07/24/installing-fedora-in-two-minutes/
-RepoCamp at the Library of Congress
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/08/20/repocamp-at-the-library-of-congress/
-Open Repositories 2009
http://or09.library.gatech.edu/index.php
-Reality Check: SIGGRAPH 2008
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2008/08/18/reality-check-siggraph-2008/
-2008 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Spans Culture and Technology
http://dlib.org/dlib/july08/morris/07morris.html
Connections
-Community Building Around Solution Areas by Thornton Staples
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2008/09/03/community-building-around-solution-areas/
Developing community activities around Fedora Commons’ priority areas is one of our central functions as an organization. We are well placed to organize communities for development in a variety of areas, especially including development of the core software and application development in a variety of solution areas that have a natural affinity with Fedora. Other community activities could include such things as standards development, issue advocacy or simple information sharing in a particular area.
