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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

Our first discussion starts at in about 15 minutes in the #evergreen IRC 
channel.

For those who will be participating, I have written up some ground rules 
for the discussion that are available at 
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=scratchpad:search:focus_groups.

Please take a little bit of time to read them over before we begin.

Thanks!
Kathy

On 03/07/2016 02:01 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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Kathy Lussier
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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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