[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Finding stories about similar Evergreen libraries (was: Question)

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

I like that idea too, Dan.  I'd be happy to gather the love stories, deal
with permissions to post them and then work with the Communication/Web team
to get them posted somewhere on evergreen-ils.org.  We could also add a
"testimonial" field in our someday-directory!

Lori

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On 19 January 2011 15:32, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > On our RSCEL website (http://rscel.evergree-ils.org), we've created the
> > start of what we hope will become a more extensive Evergreen directory
> where
> > you can find other libraries much like you own.
> > See:  http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/about/projects
>
> <snip>
>
> > And as I said, eventually we
> > hope this little Drupal app will transition into a more full-featured
> > database that we can all use to help find each other and will live on the
> > main Evergreen website.  And it will be faster!
>
> There's a lot to be said, too, for the kind of community welcome that
> people like Georgette receive when they post to the mailing list - and
> to have success stories like Andy's pop up in response is awesome! I'm
> not arguing against either the directory or the list of Evergreen
> libraries, but I hope future people continue to feel encouraged to
> come forward and share their questions and experiences.
>
> As an aside, perhaps we could steal a page from umpteen zillion
> commercial product / other open source project sites and have a
> rotating set of "success stories" that provide insight into different
> aspects of the Evergreen community right on the evergreen-ils.org home
> page (illustrating those "over 544 libraries of every type"). See the
> quotes and "Your Life on Fedora" section on the home page of
> http://fedoraproject.org/ for an example. We just need some volunteers
> to provide their stories, some volunteers to craft the quotes and
> stories, and some design love if we want to do it.
>



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