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Hyku 7 Upgrade Community Fundraising 2025

Hyku 7 Upgrade Community Fundraising 2025

Why Crowdfund?

The Hyku Community is fundraising to fast-track critical upgrade work required for platform performance, security, and quality. The goal of this fundraising is to ensure this work is completed by the end of summer 2025.

The outcome: Release Hyku 7 by the End of Summer 2025

Notch8 has secured Rob Kaufman to lead this essential upgrade work, which includes:

  • Integrating the latest Hyrax 5.1 into Hyku

  • Upgrading Ruby and Rails with full dependency resolution

  • Comprehensive testing and spec development

Rob has the experience to complete this work quickly so that it is complete in time for community development work this fall.

Why this work matters

  • For both the Hyku and Hyrax communities to enjoy the “cross-pollination” of features and benefits of both, they both need to be on the same version of Rails, and share the same core Hyrax engine version.

  • This work sets up both platforms for improved quality with fewer bugs.

  • This work is a required step to address performance issues.

  • Less divergence (and more convergence) of both projects means higher quality of releases through streamlined testing and a lower maintenance burden.

Timeline & Budget

Estimated completion: 2 months
Total budget: $20,000
Target release: August 2025

If 10 institutions can each pledge $2,000 toward this effort we will reach our goal. Some institutions may be able to contribute more if needed to help institutions who can’t reach the full contribution goal, so contribution pledges of any amount are welcome.

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Pledged Contributions

Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) - $2,000

West Virginia University Libraries - $2,000

Covenant Theological Seminary - $500

By distributing the cost across our community, we can move forward quickly without burdening any single institution. Your contribution, regardless of size, helps maintain the collaborative spirit that makes Hyku special. 

If we're not able to reach the target budget, this work will still need to be completed, but it will happen more slowly and without the momentum of a dedicated sprint.

How to Pledge

Email heather@samvera.org with your pledge amount, and when you would like to be invoiced.