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

[Tara Robertson]

Hi again,

My goal is to profile at least 50 community members in a slideshow at the
Evergreen Indiana conference. Right now I have 2.

I know people are reluctant to raise their hand and say that they are
awesome. Also people tend to downplay their own contributions. I'd really
like to profile a wide variety of people who make a wide variety of
contributions. So, if you can ask an awesome colleague or community member
if you can profile them that would be a huge help.

To keep things simple I'd like to license this content under a Creative
Commons Attribution license. Let me know if you have a problem with this, I
suspect that the biggest issue will be with the photos. I want to be clear
about how we can use this content as we'd like to do something creative
with it for the Evergreen 2013 conference in Vancouver.

This information is also on my blog:
http://www.tararobertson.ca/evergreen-unsung-heros-an-invitation-to-participate/

Cheers,
Tara

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From: Tara Robertson <information.detective at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Evergreen community unsung heroes: an invitation to participate
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>


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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