[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Anyone using Syndetics enriched content on EG 2.x?

[Yamil Suarez]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:.
> 
> You might be interested in one or both of the hackfest ideas I've
> proposed for EG 2012 at
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:hackfest:eg2012
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> 1) The current limitation of doing added content lookups via ISBN
> might prevent you from getting any useful info from Syndetics for
> music recordings
> 
> 2) Overcoming that limitiation and hooking up MusicBrainz as an added
> content provider might make you reassess Syndetics.
> 
> Two big ifs, though: we need to solve #1 before moving on to #2. But
> I'm interested in hacking away at it :)
> 
> Also, aside: anyone who wants to propose development hackfest
> projects, feel free to edit the wiki page accordingly! There's no
> formal process, I just made this up, but right now the idea is that
> you can just identify something you want to work on and might want to
> work with others on, allocate a block of time (in an ideal world) and
> a timeslot if that makes sense, and hit "Save".

Thanks for the heads up Dan. I am definitely interested in both ideas, and would like to help out anyway way I can. I currently do not know the EG code base or Perl well enough to contribute code, but there should be other ways to help like providing test records, running tests, etc.

Yamil