[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

Apologies for the delay in getting this out. We had 19 people who 
participated in the poll, and it was much more difficult to find chat 
times that would work for everyone than I thought it would be. It looks 
like we can accommodate everyone's schedule if we schedule two chats 
next week and two chats the following week.

The dates will be:

Tuesday, March 8 at 10 a.m. Eastern, 7 a.m. Pacific
Friday, March 11 at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific
Tuesday, March 15 at 3 p.m. Eastern 12 p.m. Pacific
Thursday, March 16 at 3 p.m. Eastern 12 p.m. Pacific

I'm going to ask everyone to fill out one more poll (sorry!) 
http://doodle.com/poll/62g2nmkszddx4iee

Please pick the discussion that you plan to attend. You aren't bound to 
whatever choice you make. If things come up and you need to drop in on 
another session, that's fine. And, of course, there are people in IRC at 
all hours of the day who might chime in as the discussion is happening.

However, in the interest of keeping the discussion focused while also 
hearing multiple viewpoints, I think we want to strive for 5 - 10 people 
participating in each chat. If several time slots work for you, and you 
see one has fewer participants than the others, please go with the one 
with fewer participants so we can have balanced attendance along all of 
the chat sessions.

If you didn't fill out the first poll, you're certainly welcome to sign 
up for any of these time slots.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
Kathy



On 02/29/2016 04:26 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sending out a reminder to fill out the Doodle poll at 
> http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr if you are interested in 
> talking about search in Evergreen. I'm going to set some dates tomorrow.
>
> Kathy
>
> On 02/19/2016 05:54 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> During the dev hack-a-way in November, we had a discussion regarding 
>> Evergreen search. The discussion happened at the request of MassLNC 
>> after we had some local discussions regarding what our overall goals 
>> for Evergreen search are. We view  search as one of the most 
>> important pieces of the ILS, if not the most important. It's what 
>> allows our users to find those resources we spend so much time 
>> cataloging so that they can then place holds on them, check them out 
>> from the library, or access them in some other way.
>>
>> I left the hack-a-way with an action item to start a larger community 
>> discussion where we could identify some high-level goals for what we 
>> want Evergreen search to be and where we could define what we 
>> consider to be important factors in search relevance.
>>
>> I would like to start this discussion with some focus-group-like 
>> discussions in IRC where community members could identify the 
>> features they like about the current search and where they see room 
>> for improvement. My hope is that these discussions can help us define 
>> what we consider to be an ideal search system for Evergreen and allow 
>> the dev community to explore options for making that ideal search 
>> system happen.
>>
>> I think the discussions will work best if they are not too large, so 
>> I anticipate scheduling two or three or more depending on interest. 
>> If you are interested in participating, please fill out the Doodle at 
>> http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr. I'll try my best to schedule 
>> these discussions so that anyone who shows interest through the 
>> Doodle poll has a chance to participate.
>>
>> I have also talked to Yamil Suarez about scheduling some "Intro to 
>> IRC" sessions ahead of time so that people who are unfamiliar with 
>> IRC have a chance to learn about it before the scheduled search 
>> discussions.
>>
>> Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
>>
>> Kathy
>>
>

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Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
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