Hi everyone, A lot has been happening with the PINES crew and Evergreen development, and we apologize for lagging behind with our blog entries. I want to thank the OPEN-ILS-DEV folks for inquiring about us! Some highlights: We mentioned before that one of us was getting married, though I don’t know if we ever mentioned … Continue Reading about Extra Extra! Read all about it! →
June Executive Committee Report
Welcome to the summer! I realize it’s a busy time for you folks in the public libraries (with Summer Reading and all), and I appreciate the time you take to keep up with the Evergreen project. As usual, work on Evergreen is proceeding on schedule, and we expect a solid Alpha release in July. The … Continue Reading about June Executive Committee Report →
April Executive Committee Report
Work is proceeding well and is on-schedule for the Evergreen Circulation demo release. This release will demonstrate basic circulation functionality, and its purpose is to gather feedback on workflow and design. We are also planning on improving and upgrading some cataloging functionality that was available in the previous release. Here are some specific new features … Continue Reading about April Executive Committee Report →
March Executive Committee Report
This report comes to you as the software development group is in a transition period; we’ve just completed a major portion of the development project, and we’re just starting in earnest on the next. Consequently, there isn’t much news to report at this time, and I apologize for the brevity of this report.
February Executive Committee Report
This month, as you might imagine, has been dominated by work on the upcoming cataloging-staff client demo release. We’re progressing smoothly and steadily, and expect to reach our target release date of March 18th. Allow me to reiterate some of the features that we expect to have available in this upcoming demonstration release:
January Executive Committee Report
Things have been moving along very well in the Evergreen development project since my last PINES Executive Committee Report. We are now actually ahead of schedule and the project is running more smoothly than we initially expected and planned for. We hope this bodes well for the rest of the project.