The election for new members of the Evergreen Oversight Board closed at noon EDT on Wednesday, 19 March 2014. The two winners are: Grace Dunbar, Equinox Software Ben Shum, Bibliomation The election was run by the Software Freedom Conservancy. A total of 73 ballots were cast. The raw results are available on the Conservancy voting … Continue Reading about Evergreen Oversight Board election results →
Preparing for the 2014 Evergreen Oversight Board elections
The nomination and voter registration periods for the 2014 Evergreen Oversight Board elections are now underway. Two seats on the board are open this year for a three-year term. Email nominations and self-nominations can be sent to the Evergreen Oversight Board mailing list. If you have questions or would like information about what it means … Continue Reading about Preparing for the 2014 Evergreen Oversight Board elections →
Olly olly oxen free: users of Evergreen APIs, stand up and be counted
Does your project, service, or product interact with Evergreen in some automated fashion? If so, we’d like to hear from you. I’m using the phrase “automated fashion” very broadly. There are many ways to receive data from an Evergreen system, update data in an Evergreen database, or make transactions happen. A few of these ways … Continue Reading about Olly olly oxen free: users of Evergreen APIs, stand up and be counted →
Evergreen 2.2.0, 2.1.2 rc2, and 2.0.12 released – with SECURITY fixes
I would like to announce the long awaited Evergreen 2.2.0, the first official, stable release with the new Template Toolkit OPAC, and a whole passel of other new features. You can download it now! The release notes for 2.2.0 are here. 2.1.2 rc2 and 2.0.12 are also announced (thanks to Dan Scott and Jason Stephenson, … Continue Reading about Evergreen 2.2.0, 2.1.2 rc2, and 2.0.12 released – with SECURITY fixes →
Evergreen at 5
Happy Birthday, Evergreen! Tuesday, September 6, was the beginning of Evergreen’s sixth year. (Evergreen’s anniversary is calculated as the day after the U.S. Labor Day in early September. The PINES library consortium was the first implementation of Evergreen and it went live on that day in 2006.) What follows are summary tables of libraries migrating … Continue Reading about Evergreen at 5 →
Scale Economies
Economies of Scale is a concept from Economics that describes a condition where expanding an activity results in decreasing costs per unit at the margin. These savings result from efficiencies that are realized as the activity increases in size. In other words, being able to do more or make more, with fewer resources spent per … Continue Reading about Scale Economies →