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

Kathleen O'Connor kathleen.oconnor at villanova.edu
Thu Jun 16 11:56:45 EDT 2011


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Kathleen E. O'Connor
Systems Librarian
Falvey Memorial Library
Villanova University
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-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Anoop Atre
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:25 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Cc: Dan Scott
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

Dan,
That's great news! Many thanks to you & everyone else involved who put 
in the time and effort to make this happen.

Cheers

On 06/16/2011 09:25 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
> 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/.


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Anoop Atre
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