[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

Thu Mar 17 15:41:01 EDT 2011

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>wrote:

> By my count, the vote is 5 for #evgils and 7 (8 if you count someone on
> twitter) for #egils as a preferred hashtag for Evergreen.
>
> Anyone else want to chime in or throw a wrench in the works?  Nothing is
> set in stone obviously since we have no way to actually make it official but
> to ensure we COULD use egils, I registered it at twubs.com.
>
> More opinions please!
>
>
I have almost always seen others shorten Evergreen to EG, with very few
exceptions (only one I can think of before this thread started).  The "v",
in the rare cases I've seen it use, has always put me off and caused a
mental stumble because if its rarity.  At least in the EG (heh) dev
community, "eg" has 6 years of history and precedent, so I'm strongly in
favor of that.

--miker

> Lori
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Deborah Lipoma <lipomad at santacruzpl.org>wrote:
>
>> I prefer #egils also.  In fact, I'm starting to abbreviate my referrals to
>> Evergreen as just EG.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Michele Montague <mmontagu at grpl.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Another vote for #egils.  It's shortest and easier to say (for those of
>>> us who remember hashtags by their sound).
>>>
>>> On 3/16/2011 3:13 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>  Can I get some feedback on #egils?
>>>
>>>  Lori
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll use #evg11,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nope, no can do.  Tried evg11 and so many variations on it, it made me
>>>> dizzy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Finally found success with egconf11.  Not the best, but trust me – so
>>>> many other combinations ended in failure.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We’ve posted here and there and there’s a feed on the front page of the
>>>> conference website so sign up:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> egconf11
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We’ll post more frequently as we inch ever closer to the April
>>>> conference.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Amy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: "Kate Sheehan" <ksheehan at biblio.org>
>>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
>>>>
>>>> To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'"
>>>>
>>>>                 <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Thanks for bringing this to the list, Lori!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On twitter, I've found that #evergreen by itself isn't distinct enough,
>>>> and #evgils has worked well (and is patterned off of #kohails).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd be open to #evergreenoss or #evergreenils, but they are very long in
>>>> the
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd vote for #evgils or #openils (or if you have room, both).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
>>>>
>>>> Amy Terlaga
>>>>
>>>> Assistant Director, User Services
>>>>
>>>> Bibliomation, Inc.
>>>>
>>>> 32 Crest Road
>>>>
>>>> Middlebury, CT  06762
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Deborah Lipoma
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