[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Web Site Strategy

[Anoop Atre]

Hi everyone,
An announcement to the list detailing the work of the Evergreen 
Communication Committee and its Website Interest Group was sent out 
early October. We promised that both of these groups would be seeking 
feedback from the community. As promised, the Website Interest Group 
(WIG) is interested in your thoughts about and ideas for the Evergreen 
website.

WIG has started the brainstorming and planning process for the long-term 
vision for the Evergreen website. We're looking for community feedback 
on our strategic plan and requirements. Our first draft is below and 
we'd like to know what the community wants to see in the Evergreen 
website. Suggestions for things that should be added, taken away or 
changed in our initial list of ideas are most welcome.

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Strategic Goal #1: Provide an easy-to-use, comprehensive portal for the 
community of Evergreen users, future users, and developers

Requirement: Provide a community platform to foster relationships 
between and among existing and future Evergreen users, libraries, and 
administrators
Requirement: Provide a centralized location for Evergreen feature 
information, documentation, and software downloads.
Requirement: Provide a searchable directory of willing Evergreen 
community members and mentors.

Strategic Goal #2: Encourage growth of a healthy developer community

Requirement: Provide an effective platform for Evergreen developers to 
communicate with each other and with Evergreen users
Requirement: Provide technical information needed by current and future 
Evergreen developers
Requirement: Provide a mechanism for Evergreen users to share 
development plans, co-sponsor development projects, and submit 
development requests and bug reports
Requirement: Provide opportunities for developers to get acknowledgement 
for their efforts on behalf of the Evergreen community.

Strategic Goal #3: Facilitate development of multi-faceted support 
network for Evergreen users.

Requirement: Provide an effective platform that allows for multiple 
Evergreen support channels and relationships
Requirement: Provide a directory of entities providing services to 
Evergreen users.
Requirement: Ensure the barrier is low for communicating directly with 
developers and other Evergreen users

Strategic Goal #4: Encourage widespread adoption of Evergreen by the 
library community worldwide.

Requirement: Provide a centralized location for information about 
Evergreen news and information
Requirement: Provide evaluation, comparison, funding, and 
migration-related information for potential Evergreen implementers

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Thank you,
Evergreen WIG