[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Monthly list reminder -- Evergreen communication

[Karen Schneider]

Here's your monthly omnibus posting about the open-ils-general discussion
list and other communication mechanisms for Evergreen software.

1. Open-ils-general is the general discussion list for Evergreen open source
library software. Members of this list include Evergreen users, librarians,
library workers, library users, developers, fellow travelers, or people just
plain curious about Evergreen. As of July 2009, this list had 621 members.
Its traffic is moderate (about 6 messages per day).

2. If you are new to this list and not highly technical, you may find at
times this list gets more technical chatter than you want. Hang in there,
members do post "general" stuff that's valuable -- newsletters, conference
updates, questions, etc. -- so let the tech stuff roll past you. (There is a
list for development, but it isn't used as much as "general.")

3. This list is archived in several places. The following archives offer
many features:

** Markmail: http://georgialibraries.markmail.org/search/?q=

** Gmane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.education.libraries.open-ils.general

4. About the list name: Open-ILS was the first name for Evergreen (and is
still found here and there in the software and other places).

5. About the list host: georgialibraries.org represents Georgia Public
Library Service, the original home of Evergreen software.

6. There are several other Evergreen lists for development, documentation,
and the commits to the Evergreen code (watch the Evergreen developers work
in real time!). See them here at http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php

7. To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list, change your subscription, etc.,
go here:

http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general

Other communication tools for the Evergreen community:

1. Evergreen newsletter: this is published once a month to this list and to
the Evergreen blog, generally about the middle of the month. We announce the
deadline a few days ahead, but it's never too early to contribute.

2. Evergreen blog: tidbits from the community are occasionally posted here:
http://evergreen-ils.org/blog

3. Evergreen Facebook group, with over 300 members:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6396639614


4. Equinox Software is on Twitter as esilibrary (Evergreen could be there as
well, if we had a group willing to manage its presence)

5. Planet Evergreen is an aggregator of blogs about Evergreen, at
http://planet.evergreen-ils.org/ If you blog about Evergreen and want to be
added to the Planet, just send an email to Dan Scott at dan at coffeecode.net

Happy July!


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| Karen G. Schneider
| Community Librarian
| Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
| Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712
| kgs at esilibrary.com
| Web: http://www.esilibrary.com
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