[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Joining the Evergreen community

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

How exciting!  Welcome.  Are you sending anyone to the Evergreen Conference
in Indiana this April?

Lori

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Lori Bowen Ayre //
Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group
Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
(707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre at galecia.com
Availability:  http://tungle.me/lori.ayre

<Lori.Ayre at galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID,
filtering,
workflow optimization, and materials handling
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Olli-Antti Kivilahti <
olli-antti.kivilahti at jns.fi> wrote:

> Hello again Evergreen mailing list!
>
> Just wanted to make a public announcement that the regional library of
> Joensuu has decided to have Evergreen as our ILS-of-choice. We will have
> EG in production by/during the year 2014. It was a tough battle between
> Koha and Evergreen, where according to our requirements specification,
> Evergreen lost by 1 point of 470. Regardless of the much larger
> technical difficulties perceived in adapting, maintaining and developing
> Evergreen, we found the consortial model to be crucial for our library
> needs. Our consortium will include the whole province of North-Carelia
> (ca. 200 000 residents). We have around 20 branches and 4 municipal
> libraries that need to be joined together, with the promises of Southern
> Central Finland joining us with equal amount of branches.
> We are already starting the localization process by outsourcing the
> Launchpad translation and aim to complete it by the end of June.
> Hopefully by then our Fenno-American cousins can enjoy their Evergreen
> in Finnish.
> Currently the main challenges are to finish with our Software
> Requirements Specification(SRS), which is around 55% complete. Make more
> detailed plans for the database migrations, for which we need to migrate
> three different systems, and have more expertise in understanding the
> Evergreen development workflow. To that end I was planning to
> participate in the Google Summer of Code.
> We will host the servers and databases, do the migrations and set up
> Library settings by ourselves.
> Community support will however play a critical role with the success of
> our project. And we are willing to pay for it. It is unclear as to what
> extent, but propably will require participation during UTC/GMT +2
> working hours or even moving to Finland. It might be possible to hire a
> Evergreen specialist for the duration of 6 months to 1 year.
> We also have plans for Evergreen improvements and would like to discuss
> about how to integrate them to the master branch. We have reserved
> 47000€ for the improvement of services and it might be best to start
> thinking ahead on how to implement, and in what timeframe, the changes
> we prioritize, if possible. And possibly make joint efforts with
> existing development teams.
> Once the SRS will come closer to completion, I will translate it to
> English and publish it.
>
> --
> Olli-Antti Kivilahti
> Open Library 2013
> Library of Joensuu
>
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