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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

If you are participating in the search discussions, but aren't entirely 
comfortable with IRC, Yamil Suarez will be hosting IRC practice times in 
the #evergreen IRC channel in the half-hour preceding the March 8, March 
11, and March 16 discussions. If you want to spend a little time 
practicing IRC before the discussions, feel free to join us early. The 
easiest way to join the session is through the the Evergreen IRC web 
gateway at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evergreen.

Also, I'm sending along a reminder to let us know which discussion you 
will be joining by signing up at http://doodle.com/poll/62g2nmkszddx4iee 
. We have lots of space in next week's session on March 15 and 16.

Thank you!
Kathy

On 03/03/2016 09:43 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>

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