Posted on Sat 02 February 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Well, despite getting less than four hours of broken sleep before my 9:00 am presentation, I think I successfully delivered an update on Evergreen:State of the Open ILS to approximately 45 people at the OLA Super Conference today. There were some great questions from the audience that kept …
Posted on Tue 08 January 2008 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen
My employer, Laurentian University, issued a press release today announcing that we have selected Evergreen as our future library system. I wrote more about this on the Evergreen blog, but what I didn't say was ... yay!
We still have a long road ahead of us, but knowing that we'll be …
Posted on Fri 16 November 2007 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen
Wow. Eileen R. Kontrovitz, a board member of CODI (Customers of Dynix, Inc.) wrote, as part of her summary of the recent CODI conference:
Many very nice things happened at the conference but the buzz, the thing everyone who was not there wants to hear about is the unannounced, invitation …
Posted on Fri 12 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
This is slightly in advance of our official press release, which is currently in translation, but I will be giving / have given a lightning talk at Access 2007 on this subject and have decided to make the following materials available:
Posted on Sun 09 September 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Yesterday, over on the Evergreen blog, Mike announced that I am now a full committer to the Subversion repository for Evergreen. (It was blog post #100 for Evergreen, by the way - two milestones in one!). The road to getting here was pretty standard fare for open-source projects: submit patches that …
Posted on Fri 31 August 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Karen G. Schneider has a great post on Enterprise Open Source on the ALA TechSource blog:
But the truly significant activity in LibraryLand technology hasn't been vendor-driven. It has been the maturation of what I call "enterprise open source": products such as Evergreen and Koha that are robust, well-implemented library …
Posted on Tue 24 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Well, I'm finally back from Atlanta and the Evergreen AcqFest. I'll apologize right off the top for not providing more blog updates over the course of the weekend, but the requirements and design discussions were pretty intense so I didn't want to risk continuously missing subtle but important details and …
Posted on Wed 18 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So I'm taking off tomorrow for Atlanta to spend four days deeply immersed in discussing, designing, planning, and implementing Evergreen's acquisitions and serials support. At least that's the plan. In our spare time (heh), we're going to tackle the internationalization infrastructure as well. The spirit of the event is modelled …
Posted on Sat 07 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So, yesterday afternoon Mike Rylander from the Evergreen (a.k.a Open-ILS) project pushed out the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.2.0. Hurrah! If you tried installing Evergreen before, but got hung up on some of the build, install, or configuration steps, I think you'll find this release …
Posted on Sun 24 June 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Correction update: 2007/06/26Wow. I am incredibly embarassed. Somehow, I made a very stupid mistake in my summary of the State Library
of Ohio ILS Options Discussion Meeting Minutes - April 24, 2007. The mistake was that I incorrectly attributed Joshua Ferraro of LibLime with making statements about Evergreen …