[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2013 conference keynote speakers announced

[Tara Robertson]

Hello,

We hope you'll join us next April 10-13th in Vancouver for the 2013
International Evergreen conference, hosted by King County Library System
and the BC Libraries Cooperative.

Here's some updates on the conference.
*
Keynote speakers *
We are *really* excited to have booked two fantastic keynote speakers.
*
John Vaillant* is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New
Yorker,  The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among others.  His
first book, *The Golden Spruce* (Norton, 2005), was a bestseller and won
several awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction
(Canada).  His most recent book, *The Tiger* (Knopf, 2010), is also an
award-winning bestseller. Of particular interest to Vaillant are stories
that explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world. Read
about the Golden Spruce here:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/11/04/021104fa_fact?currentPage=all

*Zak Greant* is a Canadian technologist, professional speaker and
electronic frontier advocate, probably best known for his work with the
Mozilla Foundation, MySQL AB and other key free software and open source
organizations. Greant’s public advocacy and speaking work has focused on
free software and open source evangelism, internet literacy, digital civil
liberties and as well as free software and open source licensing.

*Program Advisory Committee
*Thank you to the following people who are serving on this year's program
advisory committee:

   - Anoop Atre, Equinox Software
   - Shauna Borger, Indiana State Library
   - Matt Carlson, King County Library Systems
   - Dan Scott, Laurentian University
   - Chris Sharp, Georgia PINES
   - Shirley Lew, Vancouver Community College (Co-Chair)
   - Tara Robertson, Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Co-Chair)

The call for submissions will go out by the end of this month.

*Register now*
The earlybird rate of $200 is on until September 15th, register now!
http://eg2013.eventbrite.com

While you're at it, book your hotel too!
http://www.deltawebsupport.com/websupport/en/group_accounts/booking/1830/1042c9c681e5c8478306c39dfa8e12c8b2cedb5a

These links are both on our website: http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org

On behalf of the organizing committee,
Tara Robertson

Follow us on Twitter: @egcon2013
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