[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

[Ben Shum]

Chris echoes my feelings about the tag.

I also vote for #evgils , but defer to greater community input = omg,
more polls and surveys! :)

-- Ben

On 03/16/2011 04:04 PM, Sharp, Chris wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm reading #egils as "e-gills".  eeevil or not ;-), I vote for #evgils, because it reads EVerGreen ILS to me.
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> Just my two cents!
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> Chris
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Grace Dunbar" <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
>> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:50:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
>> Lori, I agree that egils just sounds/looks better than evgils.
>> egils++
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>> Grace
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>> On 3/16/11 3:13 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
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>> I like egils better than evgils. evgils looks too much like
>> evil....whereas egils makes me think more about equality and other
>> lofty things. And egils is short. And it will go nicely with the
>> egconf11 hashtag.
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>> Can I get some feedback on #egils?
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>> Lori
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>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Amy Terlaga < terlaga at biblio.org >
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>> On this:
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>>> I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll use #evg11,
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>> Nope, no can do. Tried evg11 and so many variations on it, it made me
>> dizzy.
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>> Finally found success with egconf11. Not the best, but trust me – so
>> many other combinations ended in failure.
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>> And by the way, the Grand Rapids conference crew transferred the
>> Twitter account over to us, including all those users who had signed
>> up to follow the 2010 conference.
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>> We’ve posted here and there and there’s a feed on the front page of
>> the conference website so sign up:
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>> egconf11
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>> We’ll post more frequently as we inch ever closer to the April
>> conference.
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>> Amy
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>> From: "Kate Sheehan" < ksheehan at biblio.org >
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>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
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>> To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'"
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>> < open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org >
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>> Thanks for bringing this to the list, Lori!
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>> On twitter, I've found that #evergreen by itself isn't distinct
>> enough, and #evgils has worked well (and is patterned off of
>> #kohails).
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>> I'd be open to #evergreenoss or #evergreenils, but they are very long
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>> 140 character world. #openils works, but is it too broad (without the
>> context of the history of Evergreen's name, this could easily apply to
>> any open source ILS, which is fine, but is that what we're going for
>> in our common-law marriage hashtag)? I'm assuming for this year's
>> conference we'll use #evg11, which brings up another argument for
>> extreme brevity.
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>> Conferences are often when folks want to add more than one hashtag to
>> an update. I'm thinking of sessions at ALA like Top Tech Trends, which
>> usually has its own hashtag, along with the conference hashtag and
>> sometimes, just for fun, a LITA hashtag. It can leave very little room
>> to actually say anything about the session!
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>> I'd vote for #evgils or #openils (or if you have room, both).
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>> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
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>> Amy Terlaga
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