[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

[Sharp, Chris]

Sure thing.  I didn't want to contradict the idea that the Oversight Board was of one mind on the issue ;-).

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rogan Hamby" <rogan.hamby at gmail.com>
> To: "Chris Sharp" <csharp at georgialibraries.org>
> Cc: "Oversight Board" <eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 9:32:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> 
> These are good questions. Since this was posted to the Open-ILS list
> for discussion, would you mind if we moved the conversation back
> over there for discussion?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Sharp, Chris <
> csharp at georgialibraries.org > wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wasn't officially on the Board when this subject was discussed, so
> I didn't feel that it would be appropriate for me to speak up during
> the last meeting. However, I do have a couple of questions/concerns
> about this proposed policy:
> 
> Is there a particular situation that makes this proposed requirement
> something people feel is necessary? Why doesn't the description on
> the wiki page suffice, assuming that an interested party would
> contact the vendor for more information, allowing the vendor
> themselves to determine how their potential customers would be able
> to receive that information? I'm working from a position that we
> probably don't want to get into the business of micromanaging vendor
> websites.
> 
> I'm also working under the assumption that the vendor listing page is
> intended to be a handy finding aid for people seeking paid support
> or development from companies/entities that provide such support.
> Isn't the onus of reviewing such companies on potential customers
> seeking support/development work? I realize not all
> libraries/potential Evergreen-using entities have good RFP-style
> processes in place, so I would go more towards the direction of
> educating people about *that* rather than policing the entities that
> add entries to the wiki page. Are my assumptions off base? Maybe
> there's more information about this situation than I'm aware of?
> 
> Thanks for listening!
> 
> Chris
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> > From: "Rogan Hamby" < rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net >
> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <
> > open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org >
> > Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2014 9:24:36 PM
> > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing
> > Policy
> > 
> > 
> > We (the Evergreen community) have had the vendor listing policy on
> > the Evergreen community web site for a little over a year now. In
> > discussing possible changes one proposed change that we (the
> > Evergreen Board) was favorable to was one that I have proposed. I
> > have proposed that on the vendor listings we require a link back
> > from the vendor listing on our site to their description of
> > Evergreen related services.
> > 
> > 
> > I see this as a positive feature so that when community members are
> > browsing the vendor listings they can easily link through to the
> > most up to date information on the vendor's site as to what they
> > offer, success stories, whatever marketing they want to use beyond
> > the brief they give us for the listing.
> > 
> > 
> > However, like the original vendor listing policy we didn't want to
> > make this decision without involving everyone the community as a
> > whole.
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
> > Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
> > York County Library System
> > 
> > 
> > “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough
> > to
> > suit me.”
> > ― C.S. Lewis
> 
> --
> Chris Sharp
> PINES System Administrator
> Georgia Public Library Service
> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
> Atlanta, Georgia 30345
> (404) 235-7147
> csharp at georgialibraries.org
> http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
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Chris Sharp
PINES System Administrator
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, Georgia 30345
(404) 235-7147
csharp at georgialibraries.org
http://pines.georgialibraries.org/