Dan Field
Working Title: Fedora Community Update and Technical Update
The Fedora community is not unfamiliar with challenge, change and rebuilding. Our path from the original days of Fedora to today is not straight, nor has it been without its detours and hiccups. But today the Fedora community feels a keen sense of accomplishment as we begin to see adoption rates of Fedora 6.x rise and migration efforts underway. We are hopeful for our future and are taking the necessary steps to engage users, both current and future, understand how we can support those working with older technologies and bring everyone forward to the newest, most modern version of Fedora.
This lightning talk will provide a brief overview of current community activities, development efforts and plans for the future as they relate directly to the PHAIDRA community. We will share some of the challenges we’ve faced, discuss what we learned and invite open conversation about ways we can evolve and grow to better support all of our users.
About
About
As Fedora Program Developer Dan is responsible for designing, testing and supporting Fedora, along with facilitating the distributed open-source development work of the volunteer Committers. He also works with the community to address their business needs and to provide technical support to users. Dan has worked with Fedora since the early 2000s and has worked on many large-scale cultural heritage documentary and audio-visual digitization projects.
In his spare time, Dan enjoys Ethical Hacking and has reported security issues to Big Tech companies such as Facebook, Yahoo and Slack. He recently spent 5 years working as a Reservist within the Royal Air Force as a Cyberspace Communication Specialist. Currently, Dan also works as Head of Software Development at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth where he received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Software Engineering.