[evergreen-outreach] Press Release: Evergreen Supporters Collaborate on Software Improvements

[Gagnon, Ron]

Good afternoon,
Here is a draft of a press release for your consideration.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!

Ron



For Immediate Release

For more information contact Ron Gagnon, Evergreen Outreach Committee,
gagnon at noblenet.org, 978-777-8844



EVERGREEN SUPPORTERS COLLABORATE ON SOFTWARE IMPROVEMENTS



Users and supporters of the Evergreen open source library system have been
busy of late working together to improve the software for all to use at no
cost.

Seventy-four community members participated in the late October Hack-A-Way,
held remotely this year.  Attendees spent an average of almost 14 hours per
person in the event, which included a discussion of future features and saw
improvements to cataloging, reports, and documentation.  Also included was
an instructional session on the Git software repository.

In early November, 29 community members participated in the semi-annual Bug
Squashing Week, in which users at their desks verify issues, provide input
and software improvements, and test and approve the improvements.  The week
produced 14 new software improvements, covering accessibility, the
circulation, course materials, online catalog and cataloging modules and
the public catalog.

The Evergreen community is made up of individuals, libraries, companies,
and other organizations that support the Evergreen Integrated Library
System, working together on software by libraries for libraries.

Improvements made available via regular point releases, the most recent in
early November, and are included in the major semi-annual release
packages.  Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU GPL,
version 2 or later and is available to all for download at no cost from the
Evergreen web site at https://evergreen-ils.org/

Evergreen continues to be the leading ILS for consortia and delivers local
flexibility and granularity of policies that no other software can match
and delivers the most interoperability for libraries via its truly open
APIs.

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.




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