<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Me too!<br><br>Sent by phone. Please pardon my thumbs.</div><div><br>On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Yamil Suarez <<a href="mailto:ysuarez@berklee.edu">ysuarez@berklee.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I agree to move ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>Yamil</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Andrea Buntz Neiman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aneiman@kent.lib.md.us" target="_blank">aneiman@kent.lib.md.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>Agreed, +1 on moving ahead<br>
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      <pre cols="72">Andrea Buntz Neiman, MLS
Librarian II, Public Services
Kent County Public Library
408 High Street
Chestertown, MD 21620
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      On 9/5/2014 1:15 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">+1 to moving ahead</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Sharp,
          Chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:csharp@georgialibraries.org" target="_blank">csharp@georgialibraries.org</a>></span>
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            comfortable with moving forward.  Thanks for doing the
            groundwork on this!<br>
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            Chris<br>
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                ----- Original Message -----<br>
                > From: "Kathy Lussier" <<a href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org" target="_blank">klussier@masslnc.org</a>><br>
                > To: <a href="mailto:eg-oversight-board@list.evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank">eg-oversight-board@list.evergreen-ils.org</a><br>
                > Sent: Friday, September 5, 2014 12:30:05 PM<br>
                > Subject: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] More details on
                Outreach Project for Women<br>
                ><br>
                > Hi all,<br>
                ><br>
                > I'm sending along an update on this program since
                the deadline for<br>
                > committing is approaching. We currently have five
                possible projects<br>
                > listed at <a href="http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opw" target="_blank">http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opw</a>.
                I plan to<br>
                > only<br>
                > move forward with projects that have at least two
                co-mentors. At this<br>
                > time, we only have two projects with two
                co-mentors, but I have some<br>
                > solid leads, giving me confidence that we will have
                two more eligible<br>
                > projects by early next week.<br>
                ><br>
                > The vote was to "to allocate community funds to
                sponsor one intern<br>
                > through the Outreach Project for Women if there are
                strong projects<br>
                > and<br>
                > committed mentors." Do you all feel comfortable now
                with moving<br>
                > forward<br>
                > based on the project ideas and mentors we have? I
                would like to<br>
                > notify<br>
                > OPW by the end of the day today, Monday morning at
                the latest. I'm<br>
                > feeling fairly good about the current state of our
                potential<br>
                > projects.<br>
                ><br>
                > Thanks!<br>
                > Kathy<br>
                ><br>
                > Kathy Lussier<br>
                > Project Coordinator<br>
                > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative<br>
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                  343-0128</a><br>
                > <a href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org" target="_blank">klussier@masslnc.org</a><br>
                > Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier</a><br>
                > #evergreen IRC: kmlussier<br>
                ><br>
                > On 8/21/2014 2:01 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:<br>
                > > Hi all,<br>
                > ><br>
                > > I wanted to send along more details on the
                Outreach Project for<br>
                > > Women<br>
                > > and what I'm proposing before today's EOB
                meeting. The idea of<br>
                > > participating in the Outreach Project for
                Women first came to the<br>
                > > Board in November 2012. At the time, we needed
                to make a quick<br>
                > > decision, and it didn't seem doable to raised
                the required funds in<br>
                > > time for the deadline. I would like to see if
                there is a way the<br>
                > > community can participate in this round, which
                had a deadline for<br>
                > > September 8.<br>
                > ><br>
                > > In the previous discussion on this topic, I
                think Lori Ayre best<br>
                > > described the reason for doing it when she
                said: "As a<br>
                > > woman-dominated<br>
                > > profession, I think it is important that we
                facilitate the growth<br>
                > > of<br>
                > > women developers of Evergreen." Overall, I
                think it's important<br>
                > > that<br>
                > > we grow the body of contributors to the
                project, and I think there<br>
                > > are<br>
                > > many places where an intern could make a
                difference, not just in<br>
                > > code,<br>
                > > but in documentation, user interfaces, etc.<br>
                > ><br>
                > > The details on the project are available at<br>
                > > <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/Admin/InfoForOrgs" target="_blank">https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/Admin/InfoForOrgs</a>.<br>
                > > As I<br>
                > > mentioned in my previous e-mail, the intern
                can make contributions<br>
                > > in<br>
                > > the areas of coding, user experience design,
                graphic design,<br>
                > > documentation, web development, marketing,
                translation, or other<br>
                > > types<br>
                > > of tasks to help sustain a FOSS project. A
                sponsor would need to<br>
                > > put<br>
                > > forward $6,250 to sponsor one intern. If the
                project were to use<br>
                > > community funds for the internship or pulled
                together contributions<br>
                > > from multiple organizations, then Evergreen
                would be listed as the<br>
                > > sponsor on the OPW page. If one organization
                or company put forward<br>
                > > the funds for the sponsorship, then that
                organization/company would<br>
                > > be<br>
                > > acknowledged as the sponsor.<br>
                > ><br>
                > > I think the next steps are to see:<br>
                > ><br>
                > > 1) if there is any will among the EOB to fund
                a sponsorship.<br>
                > > Ideally,<br>
                > > I think it would be a good use of the
                community's funds, and, if<br>
                > > the<br>
                > > project were successful, we could potentially
                use it as a target<br>
                > > for<br>
                > > fundraising for future rounds. We have about
                $29,000 in community,<br>
                > > which is about the low point we typically see
                being between two<br>
                > > conferences.<br>
                > ><br>
                > > 2) If the EOB is willing to use community
                funds for the internship<br>
                > > or<br>
                > > perhaps partially fund it while seeking
                sponsors for the remainder,<br>
                > > we<br>
                > > would then need to reach out to the community
                to see what we might<br>
                > > do<br>
                > > for potential projects and if there are any
                mentors willing to work<br>
                > > with the interns. In talking to the OPW folks,
                mentors typically<br>
                > > spend<br>
                > > up to 5 hours per week working with the
                intern, though the hours<br>
                > > tend<br>
                > > to be higher (sometimes up to 10 hours in a
                given week) during the<br>
                > > application period.<br>
                > ><br>
                > > We can continue discussion at the meeting. See
                you in a few<br>
                > > minutes!<br>
                > ><br>
                > > Kathy<br>
                > ><br>
                > ><br>
                ><br>
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                Georgia Public Library Service<br>
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