Evergreen 1.2.0
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 →
Meet the new Dan, same as the old Dan
Originally posted to the open-ils-dev and open-ils-general mailing lists. Part of growing (as a software project, individually as developers, and generally in life) is to open up to others, to let others in, to be willing to allow others to explore and criticize and help. Even in the open source world that’s harder than it … Continue Reading about Meet the new Dan, same as the old Dan →
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 →
When I speak, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS!
ACQFest is just finishing up, everyone is safely stowed on or near planes for their trip back home, and I’m trying to catch up on more than a week of backlog. I took a quick break to take the book quiz pointed out by Mark Linder and it seems … well, I’ll let you, kind … Continue Reading about When I speak, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS! →
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 →