<div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style>Participation </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="il" style="background-image:initial">Guidelines</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style>for Evergreen Communication Channels</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p style><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u>Ask <b>questions of general interest</b> to the community or to a specific group on one of the <a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Evergreen mailing lists</a>. <b>If your question is more specific</b>, like “I’m installing this and I have a particular error message,” try asking your question on the <a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/irc.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">IRC channel</a>. Always make a point of reporting back to the mailing lists when you've gotten answers to your questions off-list.<u></u></p>
<p style><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/irc.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">The IRC channel</a> is a synchronous channel where people are logged in and available for asking questions. Sometimes the channel is very quiet. Other times it is very busy like when a<b>community meeting </b>is being held. If there’s a community meeting in progress, please refrain from comments unrelated to the meeting topic at hand until the meeting is over. . </p>
<div class="im" style><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u>Add <b>events of general interest to the community</b> on the <b><a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calendar:start" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Evergreen calendar</a></b>, especially any meetings that are going to use the IRC channel.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><b>Propose ideas and ask for feedback</b> on one of the <a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Evergreen mailing lists</a>. Some proposals may ask for feedback by a certain date, and if there’s no objections, the <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34);background-repeat:initial initial">proposed</span>solution will move forward.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u>Use <a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">the general mailing list</a> to <b>announce events</b> of general interest to the community or to the group that subscribes to the list. If there’s more of a story consider a <a href="http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">blog posting</a>. Or, you may participate in one of the Evergreen related blogs that are aggregated at <a href="http://planet.evergreen-ils.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Planet Evergreen</a>. Or, start your own blog!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u>Use the <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Evergreen Launchpad</a> to post <b>bugs</b>. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u>Post information about <b>committees and working groups</b> meeting notes and other working documents on the <a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_committees" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Wiki</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u>Use the <a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_committees" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Evergreen Wiki</a> to post <b>member contributed documentation</b> of all kinds<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p style><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span> Use the <b> </b><a href="http://www.evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Evergreen mailing lists</a> to share <b>details about a development project </b>you are pursuing or to provide updates on a development project in progress. </p>
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