It’s amazing the emphasis folks put on public-facing software version numbers, and I used to think such things were mostly hype and marketing. However, we’ve been sitting on 1.2 (just released yesterday!) for longer than we would with a normal release, and we already have enough new things in the mainline trunk to cut a … Continue Reading about Evergreen 1.2.0 →
Acquiring Acquisitions, from You
Hi folks, this is a solicitation. We need your help. 🙂 We started acquisitions and serials development with a series of focus groups throughout the state of Georgia, and received a lot of useful input, insight, and suggestions from public librarians, academic librarians, and book vendors for what is needed in such a system. We … Continue Reading about Acquiring Acquisitions, from You →
Evergreen’s First Birthday
It’s really hard to believe that it has already been one year since PINES implemented Evergreen. So much has changed in the past year, and Evergreen has already grown up so much. The 1.2 series of the software is on the cusp of going gold, with the 1.4 series following shortly after later this year. … Continue Reading about Evergreen’s First Birthday →
Evergreen AcqFest
I just wanted to throw this up quickly so interested parties could see it happen almost live… We have a small team of US and Canadian library coders & techies gathered together in person at GPLS’s datacenter in Suwanee, Georgia, to further the development of an open source acquisitions and serials system (“Woodchip”) for use … Continue Reading about Evergreen AcqFest →
It’s the newwwwwww style
This afternoon, rather quietly, I posted the first release candidate for Evergreen 1.2.0 on the Open-ILS.org download page. This is a big milestone for the project and for the developers. It’s also a big milestone for those interested in adopting Evergreen outside of PINES. The 1.0 series was pretty heavily skinned for PINES, with the … Continue Reading about It’s the newwwwwww style →
ALA Presentation Pics and Slides
The Evergreen presentation at ALA was a huge success… a little too successful, in fact. Many folks had to be turned away after the room filled completely up. Here are some pictures of the event, courtesy Lamar Veatch, Georgia State Librarian: Also, here are the slides from the presentation.