The two of us have seen aspects of the evolution of the Evergreen software ecosystem that was at once surprising and then obvious once it started to arise: the evolving superconsortium in the Evergreen community. This notion first occurred to us independently in early 2009 and, curiously, we each invented the same word to describe … Continue Reading about The Evergreen Superconsortium: The next stage in the evolution of Evergreen consortia →
Dan Scott, speaker extraordinaire
And two more things from Dan Scott of Conifer (though we didn’t know about this before we went to press with the newsletter): he’s giving a keynote at NELINET’s conference on October 9th with the title “Developing a crush on Evergreen” about Conifer and the state of Evergreen, and will also be giving a talk … Continue Reading about Dan Scott, speaker extraordinaire →
Dan Scott: Podcasts of Interest
Zounds! We left this one out of the newsletter. Dan Scott recently blogged about two podcasts, one of which is of great interest to the Evergreen Documentation Interest Group in particular (about licensing open source documentation). Apologies, Dan!
Evergreen Newsletter, September 2009
The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software Volume 2, Issue 8 — September, 2009 As a reminder, we post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion list as well as to this blog. Cross-posting and forwarding are encouraged. In This Issue… Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen Development Update, Evergreen Post-Birthday Links, Evergreen People, Lyrasis … Continue Reading about Evergreen Newsletter, September 2009 →
Evergreen Documentation Needs Assessment Report
High-level preliminary assessment from Evergreen Documentation Survey Karen G. Schneider, Equinox Software, and Karen Collier, Kent County (Md.) Library September, 2009 Recommendation The needs assessment group of the Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) recommends that activities to produce single-source, XML-based project-wide Evergreen documentation commence immediately in these four areas: reports; installation, upgrading, and migrations; cataloging; … Continue Reading about Evergreen Documentation Needs Assessment Report →
Evergreen at Three: Reflections and Memories
Evergreen celebrated its third birthday on September 5, 2009. We are marking that anniversary with reflections from the community and, in a separate post, a special Evergreen Index. Evergreen happened because visionary people believed that libraries deserved good software they could control — software in the public’s trust. Lamar Veatch, Georgia State Librarian, said, “Maybe … Continue Reading about Evergreen at Three: Reflections and Memories →