[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community unsung heroes: an invitation to participate

[Anoop Atre]

Hi Tara
It would be awesome if you could share anything you get with myself and 
Jenny Turner. We proposed an "intro to evergreen community/community 
involvement q & a" session at the conference which has been accepted and 
are planning on requesting photos/information from community members 
once we start fleshing out the session.

With Jono Bacon doing the keynote I think community 
recognition/development being highlighted is an excellent idea. 
<pitch_session>Our session will hopefully help in this endeavor and we'd 
love it if some of the veterans show up for the session and help during 
the q & a.</pitch_session>

Cheers

On 02/01/2012 01:19 PM, Tara Robertson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm so excited about the Evergreen community. There are a lot of smart
> people who work hard and do really excellent work.
>
> I've really enjoyed Chris Cormack's blog posts about the unsung heroes in
> the Koha community: http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/tag/unsung-heroes/
>
> I really appreciate the hard work that the core developers do. I also
> appreciate all the other people who do work in this community. It's
> inspiring to see people working on documentation,
> translation/internationalization, governance, testing, submitting bugs,
> teaching Evergreen in library school and library tech programs, doing
> design work and contributing in other ways to make the software better and
> the community more stable and functional.
>
> It's really exciting to see where Evergreen libraries have sprung up: it
> takes guts to be the first one in your country to migrate to Evergreen, or
> to be one of the new Evergreen libraries in a specific sector (government,
> K-12, corporate, etc.).
>
> I want to create a slideshow showing lots of awesome people in our
> community.
>
> Please send me:
>
>     - a photo of the person (print quality if possible)
>     - their email address (I want to get permission from the person profiled)
>     - city, state/province/whatever
>     - library name
>     - information about how they contribute to the community, in less than
>     100 words
>
> You are also welcome to submit information about yourself--please don't be
> shy.
>
> The Evergreen International Conference organizers in Indiana have agreed to
> show this slideshow (Thanks Shauna). I'm part of the organizing team for
> the Vancouver conference and we'd like to build on this--perhaps with a
> longer slideshow, posters, or perhaps an ebook.
>
> The deadline is Friday, March 16th.
>
> Cheers,
> Tara
>


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