[Evergreen-governance-l] FW: Evergreen Foundation

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

I support agreeing to their request, insofar as I would like representation in Evergreen governance to be as broad as possible.  MnPALS certainly has the experience in library automation (decades of it, in fact) to be a valuable voice, and with their Evergreen database and their support of the ECRL migration, they certainly have enough skin in the game.  Putting my developer hat on, I would be very happy to see lots of commits from them in the future.

However, one caveat, and time to put my vendor hat on: in my mind, they also represent a case, which was inevitable, that it will be increasingly difficult to draw a clear line between vendors and libraries.  Equinox is obviously on end of the scale - I won't pretend that our rather large stack of O'Reilly books makes us a library.  A library or consortium who is just using Evergreen would be at the other end.  However, there is a potentially mushy middle - consortia who actively expand membership, sometimes on a fee for service basis, and who, as in the case of PALS, respond (and win) competitive RFPs.

Why does this matter?  Currently, there are four vendor members of this committee, all of whom are ex officio.  Where does MnPALS fall?

Regards,

Galen

On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Amy Terlaga wrote:

> Hi all—
>  
> PALS has requested to join the Governance Committee.
>  
> What’s the procedure to consider/accept another member to the committee?
>  
> FYI -
> Both Jenny Turner and Anoop Atre from PALS are heading up the Evergreen Reports Taskforce and I know that Anoop is active on the #evergreen IRC channel.
>  
> Please advise/discuss…
>  
> Amy
>  
> =======================
> Amy Terlaga
> Assistant Director, User Services
> Bibliomation
> 32 Crest Road
> Middlebury, CT  06762
> (203)577-4070 x101
> http://www.biblio.org
> ----
> Bibliomation's Open Source blog:
> http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/
>  
> Join us on Facebook:
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=171935276419
> From: Turner, Jennifer M [mailto:jennifer.turner at mnsu.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:13 PM
> To: terlaga at biblio.org
> Subject: Evergreen Foundation
>  
> Hello Amy,
>  
> Would it be appropriate for someone from the PALS office to be involved with the Evergreen Foundation?  Both Anoop and I attended the conference session regarding this foundation, but at that time felt that we were too new to the community to offer any assistance or guidance.  Now that we have a migration under our belts and have applied to be grant partners with KCLS (all paperwork has been completed; we are just waiting for official notification of acceptance/rejection), we feel that we are in a better place to contribute to the future of Evergreen.
>  
> Let me know your thoughts on this. 
>  
> Thanks,
> Jenny
>  
> ==============================
> Jennifer Turner
> PALS, A Program of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
> Minnesota State University, Mankato
> ML 3022
> Mankato, MN 56001
> 507-389-2000
>  
> * Through Our Work, Knowledge Grows *
>  
> _______________________________________________
> Evergreen-governance-l mailing list
> Evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
> http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-governance-l

--
Galen Charlton
VP, Data Services
Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
direct: +1 352-215-7548
skype:  gmcharlt
web:    http://www.esilibrary.com/