[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

[Dan Scott]

Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project
as its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy
members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status
available to all Conservancy member projects.

Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians,
developers, and documenters, are excited to announce that Evergreen is
now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Software Freedom
Conservancy provides a home to Free, Libre and Open Source Software
(FLOSS) projects. As a fiscal sponsor for FLOSS projects, the
Conservancy provides member projects with financial and administrative
services and FLOSS project policy and non-profit oversight. This allows
software developers and documenters to focus on those activities
exclusively.

By joining the Conservancy, Evergreen obtains the benefits of a formal
non-profit organizational structure while keeping the project focused on
software development and documentation. Some benefits of joining the
Conservancy include the ability to collect donations, hold assets on
behalf of the project, and some protection of the lead developers of the
project from personal liability when engaging in the activities of the
project. A full list of Conservancy member project benefits is available
on Conservancy's website. The Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a
tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, incorporated in New York State.

About Evergreen

The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library
system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software,
also called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public
catalog interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as
circulation (checkouts and checkins), acquisition and cataloging of
library materials, and sharing resources among groups of libraries and
consortia on the same Evergreen system.  Evergreen is designed to be
scalable and supports library operations ranging from a small high
school to large state-wide consortia.  Evergreen is released under the
GPL version 2 or later.  The project homepage is
http://evergreen-ils.org/.