We can now announce it! The first-ever Evergreen Conference will be May 20-22, 2009 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia, following the Georgia PINES annual meeting. The Classic Center is commodious and lovely, and Athens, just an hour from Atlanta, is a fun place with a nice downtown just in walking distance from the … Continue Reading about Save the Date! Evergreen Conference, May 20-22, 2009 →
Access 2008: the Fall Fashion Color was Evergreen!
(Note: see the new Evergreen Flickr set and Delicious set for more linkalicious pleasure.) Many good topics were discussed at Access 2008 in Hamilton, Ontario this past weekend, but Evergreen seemed to be every other word (the alternate word was LibX). As you can see from the photo on the left (by Evergreener David Fiander), … Continue Reading about Access 2008: the Fall Fashion Color was Evergreen! →
Progress on Evergreen Release 1.4 and Acquisitions — and this site
Never mind Labor Day — it has been Labor Month, as developers from around the Evergreen community have continued to put shoulders to the wheel on both Acquisitions (due out later, in 2.0 — see the Roadmap) and in 1.4. We also tuned and fiddled with varied websites, including this one, as we discuss below. … Continue Reading about Progress on Evergreen Release 1.4 and Acquisitions — and this site →
Freelance work for acquisitions documentation writers
Some stakeholders in the Evergreen community have an immediate need for writers who can produce well-written documentation for acquisitions services in library automation software. Librarians and other library workers who use, configure, or manage library acquisitions systems are the audience for this documentation. This is freelance work to begin in September, 2008 and be completed … Continue Reading about Freelance work for acquisitions documentation writers →
Evergreen at two
On June 4, 2004, Lamar Veatch, State Librarian of Georgia committed the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) to a one year test of an open source initiative to develop a new kind of software: a consortial library system. Georgia had for many years (at least since the 1940’s) pursued a fairly consistent policy—subject to the … Continue Reading about Evergreen at two →
What’s in a name? (open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org)
The Evergreen community has been discussing changing the domain for Evergreen’s project site from open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org. “Discussion” may be too strong a word… it’s more like consensus, at least from members of the Evergreen community who have been reading the list the last two weeks. The majority opinion seems to be that this has … Continue Reading about What’s in a name? (open-ils.org to evergreen-ils.org) →