[Evergreen-governance-l] Big splash (was: Re: Details of Evergreen sign up for Conservancy)

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Works for me, Galen!

Lori

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Galen Charlton wrote:
> > On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
> >> I agree with you Galen.  We should put a Press Release out and make sure
> it gets on all the lists and on the home page at evergreen-ils.org.  And
> make sure Marshall Breeding gets a copy of course. Can we work from a SFC's
> draft Press Release (do they have it yet?).
> >
> > I'll ask now.
>
> He's willing to do that as long as we can give him a draft of the press
> release to review by early tomorrow morning.  To that end, here's a quick
> draft I put together:
>
> __START__
>
> Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
>
> Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project as
> its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy members, who
> receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all
> Conservancy member projects.
>
> Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians, developers,
> and documenters, are excited to announce that Evergreen is now a member of
> the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Software Freedom Conservancy provides
> a home to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. As a fiscal
> sponsor for FLOSS projects, the Conservancy provides member projects with
> financial and administrative services and FLOSS project policy and
> non-profit oversight. This allows software developers and documenters to
> focus on those activities exclusively.
>
> By joining the Conservancy, Evergreen obtains the benefits of a formal
> non-profit organizational structure while keeping the project focused on
> software development and documentation. Some benefits of joining the
> Conservancy include the ability to collect donations, hold assets on behalf
> of the project, and some protection of the lead developers of the project
> from personal liability when engaging in the activities of the project. A
> full list of Conservancy member project benefits is available on
> Conservancy's website. The Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a
> tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, incorporated in New York State.
>
> About Evergreen
>
> The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library
> system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software, also
> called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog
> interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as circulation
> (checkouts and checkins), acquisition and cataloging of library materials,
> and sharing resources among groups of libraries and consortia on the same
> Evergreen system.  Evergreen is designed to be scalable and supports library
> operations ranging from a small high school to large state-wide consortia.
>  Evergreen is released under the GPL.  The project homepage is
> http://evergreen-ils.org/.
>
> __END__
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> VP, Support and Implementation
> Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
> email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
> direct: +1 770-709-5581
> cell:   +1 352-215-7548
> skype:  gmcharlt
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> Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
> http://evergreen-ils.org
>
>
> Equinox is going to New Orleans! Please visit us at booth 550
> at ALA Annual to learn more about Koha and Evergreen.
>
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