David Wilcox
Program Leader
LYRASIS
Arran Griffith
Program Coordinator
LYRASIS
Fedora 6.0, the next major version of Fedora, is rapidly approaching full production release. The design and development of Fedora 6.0 has been guided by three principles: improve the digital preservation feature set, support migrations from all previous versions of the software, and improve performance and scale. Much of this work is also supported by an IMLS grant-funded project to pilot upgrades to Fedora 6.0 and create a toolkit for others in the community to use in their efforts to adopt and migrate to the latest version of the software. This presentation will provide an overview of Fedora 6.0 and discuss how the Fedora team is coordinating efforts between core software development and testing, migration pilots, and a robust communications strategy to bring the community forward to Fedora 6.0.