[Eg-oversight-board] Call for agenda items

[Elfstrand, Stephen F]

At this time  the  improvements in Evergreen are driven by demand from existing users with the ability to code or pay for the improvements they want. And certainly that's good,  but is it enough? Perhaps we need to think about a strategic plan for Evergreen development to make it the best library system available and attractive to potential users. Especially large public libraries, and academic libraries both large and small.

Here's some ideas for discussion.


-Improve the image and reputation of Evergreen with better QA and packaging of complete releases with comprehensive upgrade scripts and documentation (see my Latest openILS posting)
-NCIP will save ILL staff 30-40% of their time, it's being tested and beginning to be used, but let's include it in the Evergreen releases!
-OLE is there a way to cooperate with them? Can the library community really support 3 different Open Source library systems?
-Develop an  OPAC that can be used as a common interface to Web Scale Discovery Systems (PRIMO EDS, Summon)  using the APIs
-Can we have a virtual Union catalog with other Evergreens using API?
-Patron load API critical for Academic libraries
-Course Reserves E-Reserves and Open textbooks critical for Academic libraries
-RDA Issues
-How will Evergreen compete with or evolve into a next gen cloud-based systems like Intota, ALMA and OLE, Sierra, OCLC etc.?
-Serials & Acq & OLE Open KnowledgeBase how can we incorporate ERM and OpenURL functionality INTO the Evergreen of the future for format-independent selection, acquisition, licensing and access control.
-Ability to accept OpenURL ILL or borrowing requests
-Linked data models of the future
-Authorities
-Resource delivery outside my Evergreen instance & ILL - Where is FulfILLment and how should it integrate with Evergreen?'
         I've never understood why it is a "separate" project. If it is open source why isn't it being discussed in the Evergreen user community?








-----Original Message-----
From: eg-oversight-board-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:eg-oversight-board-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 4:06 PM
To: eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org
Subject: [Eg-oversight-board] Call for agenda items

Hi,

If you have specific agenda items for the in-person meeting for at the Evergreen Conference, please send them to me by the end of the month.
What I have at the moment:

- Discussion and vote on the 2014 conference budget
- General discussion of fundraising and projects

Thanks,

Galen
--
Galen Charlton
Manager of Implementation
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
email:  gmc at esilibrary.com<mailto:gmc at esilibrary.com>
direct: +1 770-709-5581
cell:   +1 404-984-4366
skype:  gmcharlt
web:    http://www.esilibrary.com/
Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org _______________________________________________
eg-oversight-board mailing list
eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org>
http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eg-oversight-board

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.evergreen-ils.org/pipermail/eg-oversight-board/attachments/20130322/a254c6f8/attachment.html>