[evergreen-outreach] Press Releases

[Gagnon, Ron]

Good afternoon,
I have two press releases that I would like to send out over the coming
weeks.  I will be away on vacation next week.  Here they are:

EVERGREEN COMMUNITY HOLDS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The 2019 Evergreen International Conference was held recently in Valley
Forge, Pennsylvania, for users and potential users of the Evergreen library
management system.

The three-day conference, plus a preconference day, had 169 attendees for
sessions ranging all across library and system interests.  Topics included
resource sharing, collection development, e-resources, cataloging,
acquisitions, coding, features in upcoming releases and eight different
interest groups.

The keynote speaker was Ather Sharif, award-winning expert on improving web
accessibility for people with disabilities.

At the conference, it was announced that 40 members of the Evergreen
community had written software accepted into Evergreen’s two releases since
last year’s meeting with 754 separate commits and 49 people had tested and
approved software, demonstrating the continued strength and participation
of the Evergreen community.

Local arrangements and expertise were provided by the Pennsylvania
Integrated Library System (PaILS).

Evergreen continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and delivers local
flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software can match.
Evergreen 3.3 continues to deliver the most interoperability for libraries
via its truly open APIs.  Evergreen 3.3 is available to all for download at
no cost from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/
Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or
later.

The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies,
and other organizations that support the Evergreen Integrated Library
System. Evergreen is highly-scalable software that helps patrons find
library materials and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those
materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. More than 2,000
libraries around the world use Evergreen


EVERGREEN PROJECT NAMES TWO NEW CORE COMMITTERS


The Evergreen library system community named two new core committers at
their recent Evergreen International Conference, Jane Sandberg of
Linn-Benton Community College and Jason Boyer of the Indiana State
Library.  The 13 active core committers are entrusted with the
responsibility of approving new code for Evergreen's semi-annual releases.

Jane Sandberg

Jane Sandberg is the Electronic Resources Librarian at Linn-Benton
Community College.  She's been interested in open source library software
since her library school days, an interest that only intensified when she
started using Evergreen in 2013.  She also founded and leads the Student
Success Working Group which focuses on connecting academic and school
libraries in the Evergreen community.  Jane has also been focusing on ways
to improve accessibility in the Evergreen OPAC and staff client.

Jane is thrilled to be a core committer.  In this role, she is looking
forward to developing her skills at providing feedback on submitted
patches, and doing what she can to move Evergreen forward.  “It’s a really
exciting project to work with the build team and be one of the first people
to see what the next build looks like.”

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Jason Boyer

Jason Boyer is the head of the MIS Division of the Indiana State Library
and has worked in libraries since 2000. He has worked in an Evergreen
library since 2008 and has been contributing patches nearly as long. Jason
is vice president of the Evergreen Project board and a member of the
planning committee for the annual Evergreen International Conference.

Jason is honored to be added as a core committer; Evergreen is very
important to him and the opportunity to have a more direct impact on its
progress is exciting. He also hopes to assist others in improving Evergreen
by also offering feedback and support to patch writers and testers.


Evergreen continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and delivers local
flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software can match.
Evergreen 3.3 continues to deliver the most interoperability for libraries
via its truly open APIs.  Evergreen 3.3 is available to all for download at
no cost from the Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/
Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or
later.

The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies,
and other organizations that support the Evergreen Integrated Library
System. Evergreen is highly-scalable software that helps patrons find
library materials and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those
materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. More than 2,000
libraries around the world use Evergreen



Please let me know if you see any problems or have any thoughts.
Thanks,
Ron

-- 
Ronald A. Gagnon
Executive Director
North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)
Danvers, Massachusetts  01923
978-777-8844
www.noblenet.org
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