[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] evergreen-ils footer change

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

As I haven't heard an objection to my suggestion, I will be asking those who
have the permissions to do so to change the footer on all the pages in the
evergreen.ils.org domain including the wiki and blog.

The footer will read:

© 2008-2011 GPLS and others.  Evergreen is open source software,
freely licensed under GNU GPLv2.  The Evergreen Project is a member of the
Software Freedom Conservancy.



with a link from "GNU GPLv 2" to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

and "member of" links to http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583

and "Software Freedom Conservancy" links to http://sfconservancy.org/


If anyone missed the previous posts and has an objection, please contact
directly (and please copy Jim Craner as well).


Thanks all!



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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

<Lori.Ayre at galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID,
filtering,
workflow optimization, and materials handling
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:43 AM, <
evergreen-web-team-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>
> To: Evergreen Community Web Team Email List <
> evergreen-web-team at list.evergreen-ils.org>, evergreen-governance-l <
> evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 07:39:08 -0700
> Subject: propose new footers on EG websites
>
> I'd like to propose that the current footer on the evergreen-ils site be
> changed from:
>
>
>
> © 2008-2011 GPLS <http://www.georgialibraries.org/> and others | Partially
> funded by the Library Services & Technology Act through the Institute of
> Museum and Library Services.
>
> to
>
> to
>
>
>
> © 2008-2011 GPLS and others.  Evergreen is open source software,
> freely licensed under GNU GPLv2.  The Evergreen Project is a member of the
> Software Freedom Conservancy.
>
>
>
> with a link from "GNU GPLv 2" to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
>
> and "member of" links to http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583
>
> and "Software Freedom Conservancy" links to http://sfconservancy.org/
>
>
>
>
>
> Second, I’d like to propose that this new footer be added to the wiki and
> blog.
>
>
>
>
>
> Previous posts on this topic:
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I attended the EG Oversight Board mtg this morning and we talked about
> things like footers and attribution statements that should be used now that
> we are officially a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
>
>
>
> What I think we should do is propose some guidelines for language people
> should use on the evergreen-ils website pages as well as in the OPAC or
> wherever else Evergreen is running and info about Evergreen licensing can be
> included.
>
>
>
> An appropriate variation for Evergreen might look like this:
>
> © 2008-2011 GPLS <http://www.georgialibraries.org/> and others | Partially
> funded by the Library Services & Technology Act through the Institute of
> Museum and Library Services.
>
> © 2011 SFC/Evergreen.  The Evergreen project is a member the Software
> Freedom Conservancy.  All content on the Evergreen project  website is
> available under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 License<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>.
>  Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU General Public
> License (GPL), version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
>
>
>
> I suggest this is a discussion starter.  I've invited Dan Scott in on this
> thread too.  Comments?
>
>
>
> Lori
>
>
>
>
>
> From Dan Scott:
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I attended the EG Oversight Board mtg this morning and we talked about
> > things like footers and attribution statements that should be used now
> that
> > we are officially a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
> > What I think we should do is propose some guidelines for language people
> > should use on the evergreen-ils website pages as well as in the OPAC or
> > wherever else Evergreen is running and info about Evergreen licensing can
> be
> > included.
> > An appropriate variation for Evergreen might look like this:
> >
> > © 2008-2011 GPLS and others | Partially funded by the Library Services &
> > Technology Act through the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
> >
> > © 2011 SFC/Evergreen.  The Evergreen project is a member the Software
> > Freedom Conservancy.  All content on the Evergreen project  website is
> > available under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0
> License.
> >  Evergreen is open-source software, licensed under the GNU General Public
> > License (GPL), version 2.
> >
> > I suggest this is a discussion starter.  I've invited Dan Scott in on
> this
> > thread too.  Comments?
>
> To provide a tiny bit more context, the discussion about adding a
> statement to the footer stemmed from a suggestion made by Bradley Kuhn
> of the Software Freedom Conservancy; he suggested making the
> relationship between the Software Freedom Conservancy and the
> Evergreen project clear. The "Evergreen joins the Software Freedom
> Conservancy" blog post serves that purpose for now until it is no
> longer one of the newest blog posts; and the SFC logo is nice and
> clear in the "Support Evergreen" block, but I suspect few people will
> realize that is the SFC logo or that we're a member of the SFC until
> they click through. I therefore suggested adding another line to the
> footer similar to what Lori proposed. However, I was thinking much
> more basic - simply:
>
> "The Evergreen project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy."
>
> We could make "member of the Software Freedom Conservancy" a link to
> the membership announcement blog post, where the nature of the
> relationship is revealed for interested parties. If we want to keep
> the footer as clean as possible, this statement could just live on the
> front page next to the "Evergreen is open source software, freely
> licensed under the GNU GPL." statement.
>
> I realize that you're looking to license the web content under a CC
> license at some point, but I wouldn't mix that into this discussion
> (you need to get the consent of all copyright holders over the content
> of the Web site before you can place it under any license). I wouldn't
> make a copyright statement about "SFC/Evergreen", either, as
> "SFC/Evergreen" is not a real legal entity. And given that we state
> the project license in the second sentence on the home page, in the
> FAQs, and in the code itself, I'm not sure we need the license of the
> project's code in the footer.
>
>
>
> From Lori Ayre:
>
> Thanks for the background and clarification, Dan.  Much appreciated.
>
>
>
> I think your suggestions are easy enough to implement.  I like the idea of
> putting it in the footer and on the front page.
>
>
>
> Here's what I propose.  How do others feel about:
>
>
>
> 1.  Add "The Evergreen project is a member of the Software Freedom
> Conservancy" to the footer that displays on all the website pages.
>
>
>
> 2.  Add the above statement on the front page next to the "Evergreen is
> open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL." statement. (and I
> recommend changing "GPL" to "GPL, Version 2.")
>
>
> 3.  Linking "member of the Software Freedom Conservancy" in both the footer
> and front page to the membership announcement blog post at
> http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583.
>
>
>
> 4.  Put on our agenda for addressing later:  look into adding a CC license
> to the evergreen-ils website and wiki.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From Jim Craner:
>
> Inline...
>
>
> >  -------Original Message-------
> >  From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>
> >  Sent: 22 Jun '11 11:48
>
> >  Here's what I propose.  How do others feel about:
> >
> >  1.  Add "The Evergreen project is a member of the Software Freedom
> >  Conservancy" to the footer that displays on all the website pages.
>
> +1
>
>
> >  2.  Add the above statement on the front page next to the "Evergreen is
> >  open source software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL." statement.
> (and
> >  I recommend changing "GPL" to "GPL, Version 2.")
>
> +1
>
>
> >  3.  Linking "member of the Software Freedom Conservancy" in both the
>
> >  footer and front page to the membership announcement blog post at [LINK:
> >  http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583]
> http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=583.
>
> My only suggestion to this proposed item would be to make the "Software
> Freedom Conservancy" part be a
> link to the SFC website, not to the relevant EG blog post.  I might make
> "is a member" a link to that blog post
> or add a "More info" link to that blog post at the end.
>
>
> >  4.  Put on our agenda for addressing later:  look into adding a CC
> >  license to the evergreen-ils website and wiki.
> The Website Team already recognized this as a need and it's already a
> formal recommendation for the Comms
> Committee.
>
> In practical terms, those of us on the Website Team call where this was
> discussed decided it was out of our
> hands and kicked it "up" to the Communications Committee where it was
> immediately kicked back down to me
> to research boilerplate options and what other similar sites are doing with
> respect to this.
>
> More information can be found on this page - but although I have gathered
> Privacy and Terms of User
> examples, I haven't gathered any Intellectual Property license examples yet
> (since most sites seem to either
> reserve all rights or explicitly use a CC or GFDL):
>
>
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam:website_policy_samples
>
> Thanks!
> Jim
>
>
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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
>
> <Lori.Ayre at galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID,
> filtering,
> workflow optimization, and materials handling
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