[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Evergreen Newsletter, October 2009

[Jason Etheridge]

(Note: this is simultaneously distributed to open-ils-general, the public
discussion list for Evergreen.)Evergreen Newsletter, October 2009

*The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software** http://
evergreen-ils.org*

*Volume 2, Issue 9 – October, 2009*

As a reminder, we post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion
list <http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php> as well as to this blog.
Cross-posting and forwarding are encouraged.  Also, we have new folks
distributing this newsletter, so let us know if such things as HTML-based
email aren't working correctly or could be done better.  Thanks!

*In This Issue*

Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen Development and Documentation Update,
Evergreen People, Evergreen Jobs, Lyrasis Evergreen Classes, New Evergreen
Libraries, Planet Evergreen, A Few Reminders, Newsletter Administrivia

*Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar*

Michigan Evergreen Demo Schedule at MLA Nov
4-5<http://www.mlcnet.org/evergreen/?p=72>:
Michigan Evergreen staff will be demonstrating the Evergreen open-source ILS
software at the Michigan Library Association conference in Lansing on
November 4-5 in the MLC booth (#201-203). If you’re attending the MLA
conference, please stop by and check it out!

Friday, December 11, 2009 How’s It Going?: An Inside Look at Bibliomation’s
Migration to Evergreen 9:30 coffee, 10:00-noon meeting Middlebury
PL<http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2009/10/evergreen-demonstration-massachusetts.html>:
Online Registration coming soon at www.ctlibrarians.org.

The *2010 Evergreen International Conference* will be held April 21-23, 2010
at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids Michigan. The Conference
website contains general information, schedule, exhibitor information,
sponsorship information, a link to the Grand Rapids Convention and Visitors
Bureau, a link to the Amway for online reservations, and a link to the
registration site. Please join us for an exciting 3 days of learning,
sharing, networking, and fun in Grand Rapids! http://www.evergreen2010.org/

*Evergreen Development and Documentation Update*

   - LibraryThing for Libraries is now available for Evergreen. As stated in
   the announcement from LibraryThing, “We’ve integrated both the Catalog
   Enhancements (tags, tag browser, recommendations, other editions and
   translations) and the Reviews Enhancement (300,000 LibraryThing reviews,
   patron reviewing, Facebook app, blog widgets).”
      - For more information, check out the original announcement on the
      LibraryThing
Blog<http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2009/09/ltfl-now-available-for-evergreen.php>and
see it in action on the Kent
      County Public Library’s
catalogue<http://catalog.kentcountylibrary.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=46595&d=0&hc=1&adv=0375400117&rt=isbn>.

   - The first Developer Meeting on IRC took place on October 16, 2009. All
   members of the community with an interest in contributing to the development
   of Evergreen were invited to attend and attendance on the #evergreen hit 53
   participants at its peak. The priority item, the upcoming 1.6 release, was
   the top item on the agenda, and other issues, such as lowering the barriers
   to participation, quality assurance, and future developments were also
   tackled. All in all, it was a very productive first meeting and future ones
   are planned. If you missed it, meeting notes are now available online.
      - The original announcement <http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=270>
      - Stats for the meeting <http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=276>
      - Agenda and Meeting
Notes<http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:meetings>
   - Dan Scott gave an Evergreen Developer Workshop and Presentation at FSOSS
   2009 <http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2009/> in Toronto, ON, Canada at the end
   of October. Dan has made his tutorial available online, both as a web
   page <http://evergreen-ils.org/%7Edenials/workshop.html> and as a
tarball<http://evergreen-ils.org/%7Edenials/workshop.tar.gz>containing
the notes from the web page, presentation slides, and code
   samples used during the presentation. These resources are very valuable for
   new Evergreen developers and will evolve as Dan incorporates feedback. Dan
   also notes that he’ll be offering an extended version of this workshop at
   OLA 2010 next February.
   - The very popular Access 2009 conference took place in Prince Edward
   Island, Canada at the start of October. Equinox’s Mike Rylander gave a
   tag-team presentation with Roy Tennant of OCLC called “ILS in the Sky with
   Diamonds.” Mike talked about cloud computer in general, Evergreen’s Service
   Oriented Architecture, and how Evergreen can be used in Software as a
   Service (Saas) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) setups. A video
talk is available
   online at the Access 2009
website<http://hosting2.epresence.tv/UPEI/1/watch/74.aspx>.

   - The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) had their monthly
   meeting on October 21st and discussed, among other things, licensing issues
   for documentation, how to organize the documentation being written, how best
   to help volunteers learn DocBook, and the progress being made so far. Anyone
   interested can listen to recordings of past
meetings<http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig_meetings>online.
      - To learn more about DIG, please visit our wiki
page<http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig>.
      We’re always looking for people interested in helping out with our
      documentation efforts, whether by writing new documentation, testing and
      editing existing documentation, converting documentation to
DocBook format,
      or any number of other essential tasks both big and small. If
you think you
      might be interested in helping out, contact the DIG facilitators at
      docs at evergreen-ils.org.

*Evergreen People*

   - A list of the Evergreen regulars on IRC is available on the
Wiki<http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=community:irc_channel>
   - Bibliomation has been spotlighting their people on the
BOSS<http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/>blog:
      - Kate Sheehan<http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2009/10/kate-sheehan-joins-bibliomations-open.html>
      - Melissa
Lefebvre<http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2009/10/meet-open-source-team-spotlight-on.html>
      - Ben Shum<http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2009/10/meet-open-source-team-spotlight-on-ben.html>
   - King County Library System, in Washington state, was awarded a $998,556
   IMLS grant <http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/092409b_list.shtm#WA>.
   They will use the grant to develop a peer-to-peer library community
   support model for open source migrations and future software development.

*Evergreen Jobs*

Equinox Software has a slew of openings<http://esilibrary.com/esi/careers.php>,
including Educational Services Manager, System Administrator, Sales
Executive, and Software Developer (the more the merrier).

*Lyrasis Evergreen Classes*

Lyrasis is offering one Evergreen class in the near future:

Evergreen Administration and Statistics Module (Live Online)

12/3/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST

To register, please see the Lyrasis
website<http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events.aspx>
.

For close to a year, Lyrasis (created from a merger of SOLINET and PALINET)
has taught dozens of Evergreen classes. Lyrasis is dedicated to training and
instructing Evergreen, and they welcome your comments and suggestions for
courses. All of their current course offerings are continuously updated, and
Lyrasis plans to add more courses in the future. For comments or questions,
contact Lyrasis instructors Jennifer.Bielewski at lyrasis.org or
Jenny.Liberatore at lyrasis.org.

*New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!*

   - Evergreen Indiana <http://evergreen.lib.in.us/>
      - On October 7, Roachdale-Franklin Township public library (previously
      non-automated) migrated to Evergreen. On October 8 and October 29, Jay
      County Public Library and Westfield Washington Public Library,
respectively,
      migrated to Evergreen. These three migrations bring to 43 the
number of Indiana
      libraries online <http://evergreen.lib.in.us/> with Evergreen. These
      43 libraries serve over 480,000 Indiana residents and provide a shared
      resource catalog holding over 2.7 million items. The Evergreen Indiana
      consortium has 69 members.
   - SC LENDS <http://sclends.lib.sc.us/>
      - Calhoun Public Library <http://sclends.lib.sc.us/> went live on Oct
      15, 2009.
      - Chesterfield Public Library <http://sclends.lib.sc.us/> went live on
      Oct 15, 2009.
      - Dorchester Public Library <http://sclends.lib.sc.us/> went live on
      Oct 15, 2009.
      - York Public Library <http://sclends.lib.sc.us/> went live on Oct 15,
      2009.
   - Greater Laverdiere Family Library Network <http://www.laverdieres.com/>,
   one of the first personal libraries to use Evergreen.

*Planet Evergreen*

Can’t get enough news about Evergreen open source software? Subscribe to or
read Planet Evergreen <http://planet.evergreen-ils.org/>, an aggregator for
Evergreen-related posts. Have a blog that talks about Evergreen? To add your
blog to the Planet Evergreen blog aggregator, send email to Dan Scott at
dan at coffeecode.net

*A Few Reminders*

Evergreen has a Flickr <http://flickr.com/photos/evergreen-ils/> set and a
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6396639614> group.

Bibliomation has a
Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=171935276419>group
for their Open Source Project, BibliOak.

*Newsletter Administrivia*

Feel free to forward, share, etc.! The co-wranglers for this newsletter
(produced every month–sometimes earlier, sometimes later–what can we say!)
are …

Jason Etheridge, Equinox, jason at esilibrary.com <jason at esilibrary>
Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation, terlagaATbiblioDOTorg

Wiki edits also by Karen Collier and Warren Layton
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