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The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software

Volume 2, Issue 6 — June, 2009

As a reminder, we will also post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion list. Cross-posting and forwarding is encouraged.

In This Issue…

Evergreen Out and About (including Evergreen at ALA Annual 2009), MFHD Webinar, Evergreen Conference Recap, MLA Honors Ruth Dukelow, Evergreen Development Update, Evergreen Jobs, Evergreen Hires, Lyrasis Evergreen Classes, Planet Evergreen, New Evergreen Libraries, Newsletter Administrivia

Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar

Also see: http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar

If you have Evergreen-related events to add (talks, conferences, etc.), just email events@evergreen-ils.org.

American Library Association Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois, July 9-15). Evergreen folks from all over will be exhibiting, presenting, meeting with people, and so forth!

Some highlights:

• Equinox Software will be at the ALA exhibits at Booth # 4051 [note, this is a correction]. If you’d like to schedule an appointment for a one-on-one conversation about Evergreen, email events@esilibrary.com. Shae Tetterton will be demoing Evergreen a few times, and there might even be another slot for “Open Source Jeopardy.”
• Equinox Software is also hosting an Evergreen social function on Sunday, July 12, 5:30-7:30 at the Wine Cellar Room of the Chicago Firehouse Restaurant, 1401 S. Michigan Avenue. Please RSVP to events@esilibrary.com if you think you might show up so we have a good head count.
• In Chicago, at (but not part of) the ALA Annual 2009 Conference, there will be an open source unconference on Saturday, July 11, 9:30am-12:15pm. “This event is being put on by King County Library System and The Galecia Group who have been working together on some OS projects for the last year and a half. Our enthusiasm for Open Source Library System software continues to grow and we recognize that it is one of those “the more the merrier” kinds of situations. We want to hear what others are doing, tell people what we’re doing, and get more people involved.” Interested? Request an oss4pl2009 wiki account
• Also try to catch this program (Catherine Lemmer of Evergreen Indiana will be a panelist): Saturday, July 11, 1:30 - 3:00: What Can $930 Million Do for Library Services Nationwide? The Impact and Future Directions of LSTA. Sponsored by ASCLA SLAS. How do states use their LSTA dollars to improve library services? In an IMLS study, Himmel and Wilson examined all of the states’ five year evaluations, and reported on the observed major trends. A panel of speakers will present new directions of states’ projects.

WilsWorld (Madison, Wisconsin, July 28-29). Karen Schneider to do a plenary session and a couple other spots. Karen spoke at one of the earliest WilsWorld conferences and is excited to return!

Webinar: Evergreen ILS and MARC Format for Holdings Data (MFHD)

By popular demand — if you didn’t see this program at Evergreen International Conference, or you did but you’d like to see it again, here’s a live version to attend!

Presenter: David J. Fiander, Web Services Librarian, University of Western Ontario
Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET
Reserve your Webinar seat now

This talk will provide some real-world examples of serial publication patterns that can be challenging to interpret, show how those patterns can be described using the MARC Format for Holdings Data, describe how most integrated library systems currently implement MFHD, and discuss the challenges faced in implementing MFHD for Evergreen open source library automation software.

Recap: Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009

Program slidesets and videos are on the Conference wiki. To date videos have been uploaded for the opening remarks and opening and closing keynotes.

These blog posts, tweets, and pictures also wrapped up events:

http://www.librarian.net/tag/eg09/
http://hashtags.org/tag/eg09
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eg09/
http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=206

And the Documentation Interest Group was formed, and since then has developed a 90-day timeline with tasks, deliverables, and a lot of volunteers!

Ruth Dukelow Honored by Michigan Library Association

The Michigan Library Association 2009 Librarian of the Year is Ruth Dukelow, of the Michigan Library Consortium. MLA noted, “Ruth has been involved in many statewide projects.” Indeed, like Michigan Evergreen! Read more about Ruth’s successes on MLA’s Professional Awards page

Evergreen Development Update

Evergreen 1.6 is imminent, and it has some terrific features. Some of the highlights include shelving locations displayed in the copy summary; a new events and notifications framework; a toggle-able button bar in the staff client for common search functions; “fast item add” in the MARC editor; billing enhancements; a tool for exposing additional MARC elements in the OPAC record display; initial MARC Format for Holdings Data (MFHD) functionality; and much more.

Plus, Release 1.6 exposes the acquisitions functionality completed to date in the Admin menu, so you can explore, review, discuss, and provide feedback!

Also see the Evergreen Roadmap for a full list of enhancements in 1.6 and for a top-level view of what’s coming in 2.0.

Evergreen Jobs!

See this posting about several job openings for Evergreen-related work—all new positions! Have a listing? Share it with the newsletter or post it to the Evergreen list!

Evergreen People!

Equinox Software Inc., “The Evergreen Experts,” recently hired Steve Callender as a Technical Support Specialist and Grace Dunbar as a Project Manager. These are both new positions within Equinox. Steve is originally from Anaheim and has 8 years of experience in technical support and development. Grace has considerable library experience, most recently as the head librarian for Savannah College of Art and Design.

Lyrasis Rolls Out More Evergreen Training Classes

Evergreen classes are offered online by Lyrasis (nee Solinet) on the following dates and times:

6/30/2009 10a.m.-11 a.m. Lyrasis Evergreen Guided Tour. FREE!

Since October, Lyrasis (created from a merger of SOLINET and PALINET) has taught close to 25 Evergreen classes, with over 100 students! Lyrasis is dedicated to training and instructing Evergreen, and they welcome your comments and suggestions for courses. All of their current course offerings are continuously updated, and Lyrasis plans to add more courses in the future. For comments or questions, contact Lyrasis instructors Jennifer.Bielewski@lyrasis.org or Jenny.Liberatore@lyrasis.org

Planet Evergreen

Can’t get enough news about Evergreen open source software? Subscribe to or read Planet Evergreen, an aggregator for Evergreen-related posts, at http://planet.evergreen-ils.org . Have a blog that talks about Evergreen? To add your blog to the Planet Evergreen blog aggregator, send email to Dan Scott

Evergreen on Facebook

Evergreen has a growing Facebook group. We are post events to this group, well as press releases for new Evergreen libraries and systems and other related news. The group now has close to 300 members. If you’re on Facebook, join our group. If you aren’t on Facebook and you don’t think you’re the Facebook “type,” give it a try. You might be surprised by who’s on Facebook!

A Few Reminders

Webinars and videos: Don’t forget the section on the Evergreen wiki devoted to community-contributed documentation and tutorials.

Evergreen also has a Flickr set

New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!

Also see the growing list of Evergreen libraries

Natural Resources Canada

• Calgary
• Edmonton
• Fredericton
• Ottawa
• Quebec
• Sault Ste. Marie
• Varennes
• Vancouver
• Victoria

SITKA (British Columbia)

Their first multibranch site, Lillooet Area Library Association, went live on May 26. It includes the Lillooet, Gold Bridge, Bridge River and a Book Bus.

Project Conifer

• Algoma University
• Laurentian University
• Northern Ontario School of Medicine
• University of Windsor
• And others

Michigan Evergreen:

Oscoda Public Library

Evergreen Indiana:

Huntington Public Library

South Carolina LENDS:

South Carolina State Library
Beaufort County Library
Union County Public Library
Columbia Bible College

If you’d like to follow along as libraries join the Evergreen community, you can subscribe to the Equinox press release feed, which will announce most known Evergreen implementations (or follow the Facebook group mentioned above).

Newsletter Administrivia

Feel free to forward, share, etc.!

We try to get this out by mid-month (it’s still June, isn’t it?).

The co-wranglers for this newsletter are Karen Schneider, Equinox Community Librarian and John Fink, Digital Technologies Development Librarian at McMaster University.

Back in December, Laura McFarland joined Equinox Software as a full time software developer for all things Evergreen. Though her primary focus is user interface design and development, which she is also studying as part of her computer science program, she is pretty much up for anything when it comes to writing code.

For those of you who have not met Laura in person or on IRC, you can learn a little bit about her from her welcome interview on the Equinox blog. In the interview, we learn, among other things, that she has a chihuahua named Linux and that she alternates her time between knitting and beating people up (OK, I’m paraphrasing). Seriously, though, we have been quick to challenge her, but not to cross her

Over the past 6 months, as one of the lead developers, I’ve had the pleasure of being one of Laura’s Evergreen mentors, working with her on a number of Evergreen user interface projects, and committing the majority of her 65+ patches. She dove into Dojo and has, by all accounts, survived unscathed. She has navigated a wide array of Evergreen web interfaces, patching as she went. And she is currently directing her attention to the XUL markup language and staff client development.

It seems fitting that we should celebrate Laura’s 6 month anniversary at Equinox by announcing her acceptance of the core Evergreen team’s offer to become a committer to the Evergreen project. As with all Evergreen developers, she will not work alone. She is part of the growing family of Evergreen developers, users, and advocates — like you!

Michigan Library Consortium and Equinox Software are hiring, for a total of five Evergreen-related jobs. Come be part of the open source renaissance!

MLC is hiring for a training and support librarian, while Equinox Software has one-each position open for system administration, software developer, migration specialist, and technical support.

If you know of other Evergreen-related positions, we’re happy to blog them and give them airtime elsewhere (Twitter, Facebook, the Evergreen lists, etc.).

This is a summary that was posted to the three Evergreen discussion lists (general, documentation, and development) about the exciting momentum gathering around Evergreen documentation.

The key take-away: the Evergreen community now has a Documentation Interest Group!  There will be an online meeting 3 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday, June 10, to discuss initial roles and tasks — if you’re interested, sign up.

Most day-to-day discussions about the Evergreen documentation project will take place on the Evergreen documentation list (though news of note may be posted to this blog and other lists on occasion). To subscribe to open-ils-documentation (or other Evergreen lists), see http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php

More about the DIG Project
On Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at the Evergreen International Conference, close to two dozen members of the Evergreen community participated in a documentation planning discussion.

Following a presentation about documentation (see notes below), the group took the following actions and (unanimously) made the following commitments:

* Established an Evergreen Documentation Interest Group, aka DIG, or even, the DIGgers
* Agreed to meet regularly to plan and implement the Evergreen documentation project
* Agreed that core Evergreen documentation should be based on one single-source, standards-based, open format
* Agreed that DocBook was the format of choice for Evergreen documentation
* Agreed that community members could contribute documentation in any format, and the DIG would convert to DocBook format as required
* Agreed that the initial organizing meetings should clarify roles and tasks
* Agreed that Karen Schneider and Paul Weiss would lead this project at this point in time

Some of the earliest activities for the DIG will include establishing a timeline and a regular meeting schedule, and identifying initial tasks for project participants and recruiting for each role. Some of the preliminary groundwork for the project, once volunteers have committed to specific areas, will include identifying a core DocBook subset of tags for Evergreen documentation, writing an Evergreen style (markup) guide, developing heavily-annotated model templates, and providing toolset advice.

Documentation News of Note

The evergreen-ils.org website has been updated so that the Documentation list stands on its own, rather than being listed under Development. (See http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php )

Slides from the May 20 discussion are also on Slideshare. These slides spell out in greater detail why (and how) the Evergreen community is moving in this direction.  Questions? Post away!

http://www.slideshare.net/evergreenils/evergreen-docs-planning-session-2009 (full set)

http://www.slideshare.net/evergreenils/evergreen-documentation-lightning-talk (short set)

A holiday weekend immediately followed “eg09,” as we tagged it, so it will be next week most likely before we see all the slides, pictures, blog posts, and whatnot associated with Evergreen International Conference 2009.

In some ways the Evergreen conference felt like a joyous family gathering, the kind where you connect with relatives you have only heard about through family folklore. For the first time ever, that which is “Evergreen” was in one place at one time, sharing common goals and interests. This will happen again many more times, but it will never happen again for the very first time.

It was a terrific event by all accounts, with a remarkable level of energy and excitement that began building in Wednesday’s “anyfests” for coding, sysadmin training, and documentation planning, then moved smoothly into a terrific opening-night reception.

On Thursday, Lamar Veatch, state librarian for Georgia, set the tone for the conference by beginning his opening remarks with the international recording of Stand By Me. (Sounds as if Evergreen now has a theme song?) Joe Lucia then gave an amazing opening keynote address, “Song of the Open Road.” We then all moved into a day and a half of bogglingly wonderful programs, table talks, Birds of a Feather sessions, keynotes, dine-arounds, pub crawls, and more.

On Friday we closed out our conference with a development update, three lightning talks, the last programs, and Jessamyn West’s closing keynote.  Then we adjourned.. and it was all over, for the very first time!

The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software

Volume 2, Issue 5 — May, 2009

Cross-posting and forwarding is encouraged.

In Just Two Days, Trees Dance in the Forest

Or at least, the first-ever Evergreen International Conference will commence in Athens, Georgia (May 20-22, 2009). More below!

In This Issue…

Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen Conference Preview, Lyrasis Evergreen Classes, PINES Survey Results, Planet Evergreen, New Evergreen Libraries, Newsletter Administrivia

Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar

There now really is such a thing as an Evergreen Calendar! Its website: http://evergreen-ils.org/calendar

If you have Evergreen-related events to add (talks, conferences, etc.), just email events@evergreen-ils.org.

Evergreen International Conference (Athens, Georgia, May 20 – 22, 2009). Our first conference! Joe Lucia and Jessamyn West will be keynoting! See more about this exciting event below.

American Library Association Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois, July 9-15). We’ll be exhibiting, meeting with people, and so forth!

WilsWorld (Madison, Wisconsin, July 28-29). Karen Schneider to do a plenary session and a couple other spots. Karen spoke at one of the earliest WilsWorld conferences and is excited to return!

Past Conferences: A big thank you to Sharon Herbert and all the other folks at the British Columbia Library Association conference. Karen Schneider of Equinox gave a talk about open source and creativity that was well-attended. The informal chats with Evergreeners and fellow travelers were wonderful too. Also a shout-out to Indiana where Karen did a development update at their regional Evergreen conference.

PINES Users Heart Evergreen

Georgia PINES, the first statewide consortium powered by Evergreen open source library software, has achieved the highest-ever user satisfaction ratings in the five-year history of its annual survey. Based on the 2009 survey, 19 out of 20 respondents (95.6 percent) would recommend the Evergreen-powered PINES system to friends.

(Source: Equinox press release)

Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009

Questions? Email events@evergreen-ils.org. Also see the registration website and the wiki.

We’re almost there! This conference (social tag eg09) will bring together close to 150 Evergreen users, Evergreen advocates, people evaluating Evergreen or in the market for a new ILS, open source advocates, etc.!

In addition to the conference registration website, also see the growing conference wiki where you can sign up for rides, dine-arounds, table talks, and more (there will also be paper signup forms at the conference).

By now, if you’re attending, you know many of the specifics of the conference — the programs, keynotes, Birds of a Feather, table talks, dine-arounds, lightning talks, and so forth. Here is some information gleaned from our pre-conference survey and other sources:

1. At least half of all attendees report that they will be blogging, tweeting, Flickring, emailing, or otherwise reporting on the conference.

2. Six of the sessions, plus the lightning talks and keynotes, will be videotaped, and these tapes will be later uploaded to the web.

3. At least ten attendees are vegetarians, about a dozen are international, and 8 had questions for the keynote speakers.

4. The top question for the committee was “how do we get from the Atlanta airport to Athens?” (The answer, on the wiki, is to take a shuttle or share a ride. The wiki also has a ride board.)

5. Hackfest turnout has been outstanding. Over 30 people are signed up for Sysadmin Survival Skills. Close to 20 people will gather to discuss documentation. A dozen people have signed up for half-hour Meet with a Developer sessions. And there are a good dozen folks who want to just get together and code!

7. In keeping with an early goal to keep the conference “Ever-GREEN,” there will be SWAG bags (donated by Equinox) which you can proudly use later on for your groceries, while the (very slick-looking) SWAG mugs, donated by Nelinet, will help us all reduce waste.

7. Speaking of sponsors, let this be the first but hardly the last time we thank our conference sponsors! Gold sponsors: Ebsco/Novelist, Unique Management, Equinox Software, and STAT. Silver sponsors: BWI, ITG, 3M, Envisionware, Brodart, Lyrasis, Nelinet, and Georgia Public Library Service. Thank you!

The 2009 Evergreen Conference is jointly coordinated by Georgia Public Library Service, Equinox Software, and Lyrasis. Also, special thanks to Karen Collier at Kent County Library, Maryland, for participating in the program review process.

Lyrasis Rolls Out More Evergreen Training Classes

Evergreen classes are being offered online by Lyrasis (nee Solinet) on the following dates and times:

May 27th Evergreen Guided Tour and Demo (Free).

June 4th Evergreen Admin and Stats Module. Two hour course, 10:00am-12:00pm

Since October, Lyrasis, formerly known as SOLINET and PALINET, has taught close to 25 Evergreen classes with over 100 students! Lyrasis is dedicated to training and instructing Evergreen and welcomes your comments and suggestions for courses. All of our current course offerings are continuously updated and we plan on adding more courses to our catalog on future topics. Feel free to contact Lyrasis Instructors at Jennifer.bielewski@lyrasis.org or Jenny.Liberatore@lyrasis.org for comments or questions about Evergreen courses. We will be at the Evergreen Conference in Athens, GA and are excited to meet those of you attending!

Planet Evergreen

Can’t get enough news about Evergreen open source software? Subscribe to (or just read) Planet Evergreen, an aggregator for Evergreen-related posts. Have a blog that talks about Evergreen? To add your blog (or blog subset) to the Planet Evergreen blog aggregator, send email to Dan Scott at dan@coffeecode.net

Evergreen on Facebook

Evergreen has a growing Facebook group that features events and news related to Evergreen.  The group now has over 280 members. If you’re on Facebook, join our group. If you aren’t on Facebook and you don’t think you’re the Facebook “type,” give it a try. You might be surprised by who’s on Facebook!

A Few Reminders

Webinars and videos: Don’t forget the section on the Evergreen wiki devoted to community-contributed documentation and tutorials.

Evergreen also has a Flickr set.

New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!

Also see the growing list of Evergreen libraries.

Evergreen Indiana:

Greenwood Public Library

Michigan Evergreen:

Laingsburg Public Library

If you’d like to follow along as libraries join the Evergreen community, you can subscribe to the Equinox press release feed, which will announce most known Evergreen implementations (or follow the Facebook group mentioned above). The Equinox press release feed was recently tweaked to make it easier to track and share the releases.

Newsletter Administrivia

Feel free to forward, share, etc.!

The deadline for the Evergreen newsletter is the last working day before the first of the month… feel free to submit items earlier. The co-wranglers for this newsletter are Karen Schneider, Equinox Community Librarian and John Fink, Digital Technologies Development librarian at McMaster University.

Just two weeks from tomorrow, Evergreen users will convene in Athens, Georgia for the first-ever Evergreen International Conference. (Gulp… two weeks?!) As of last Thursday, we had 133 registrants, not including exhibitors!

The conference committee conducted a survey to measure interest in various programs and activities. The results are fascinating…

* Nearly half of all attendees (or about 90% of the survey respondents) plan to report out the conference through social engagement channels such as Twitter, blogs, mailing lists, and Flickr. (Six of the programs will be videotaped, as well.) The Classic Center has free wifi, and we’re also working hard to ensure attendees have electrical power at their chairs and tables.

* Birds-of-a-Feather/Table Talk interest was very high, with some proposed topics getting nearly 40 votes. In descending order of interest, here’s the list from the survey (more can be proposed at the conference, of course!):

Migrations
Evergreen in Consortia
Training
Custom Development
Documentation (there is also a half-day discussion on documentation on 5/20)
Starting an Evergreen User Group
Starting an Evergreen Special Interest Group
Starting an Evergreen Foundation
Evergreen in Small Libraries
Internationalization
Telephony
Reports
System Administration

* Documentation is the leading hackfest topic (that may change when registration closes for Sysadmin Survival Training), with other topics being Meet with a Developer, and hands-on coding.

This is going to be one great conference!

William Jessup University, in California’s Sierra Foothills, is one of a number of sites that install and maintain their own Evergreen implementations. They went live in January 2009, at the beginning of their spring semester.

It’s often said that you don’t have to go it alone with Evergreen — there are commercial support options — but another way to express this is that you CAN go it alone with Evergreen. The software is free to download, free to use, free to modify — and your data also remains free, rather than sequestered in some vendor’s system or “cloud.”

Kevin Pischke, Jessup’s library director, added some thoughts about Evergreen. “We were in need of a new ILS from the standpoint that our old ILS no longer met our needs as a growing academic library. We looked into various proprietary and open source options for a replacement. Ultimately, we choose Evergreen because it is a well-supported open source project with a growing focus on the needs of academic libraries.”

Going it alone with open source software requires good resources — and of course, good software. Library director Kevin Pischke said, “we could never have done it without our IT staff [particularly Jeff Green] and of course the quality of the Evergreen project. We are a small library with a solid IT staff to rely on for support; however, as a library director I had the peace of mind that I could always contract with Equinox if we need further professional support.”

Kevin shared some last thoughts about what they hope to get out of Evergreen International Conference. “I am hoping to connect with and learn from others using Evergreen,” said Jeff. “We have been doing so much on our own that to spend time with others in the same boat should be refreshing and exciting.”

(Editorial note: the Evergreen community needs a better name for these implementations than “self-implemented site!” Ideas?)

We recently spoke to George Duimovich about what he hopes to get out of the Evergreen International Conference (May 20-22, Athens, Georgia) and about his thoughts about open source in general. (Note: George is at Natural Resources Canada, which recently signed a contract with Equinox Software for Evergreen development, but his comments are his own, not NRCan’s.)

(Also see the Evergreen conference wiki for programs, keynotes, and other conference events.)

About the conference, George said,”This conference will be a major milestone for the Evergreen community and one for the history books I’m sure!” He added, “I think the conference is going to be an essential opportunity to talk about the present and future status of the Evergreen project, but also to further establish personal contacts and awareness of the user and developer communities. ”

About Evergreen’s advantages: “What many libraries want is to hit that ’sweet spot’ between the classic turn-key solution as well as having unrestricted developer-oriented possibilities when required. We view Evergreen as being the best-positioned to offer the better of both worlds, and ultimately, we anticipate that our staff and patrons will be best served by a system that we can better control, influence and support.”

About he benefits of participating in an open source community: “[This] has helped us to reach out to other libraries doing interesting and dynamic work. Our interest in collaborative technology at NRCan is more about supporting people working together than it is about the technology, and the open source model is one of several effective ways to achieve this. We also like the fact that Evergreen has an established and growing presence among Canadian academic and public libraries. For example, we were able to work with Laurentian University on contributing to the French language edition of Evergreen, and the results are now shared at no cost with the global Evergreen community.”

George added, “It’s also been incredibly refreshing to work with an ILS that from the get-go allows us to work with independent, local IT suppliers, allowing for a broader and more competitive network of service providers to rely on.”

Evergreen’s future: “One of the positives about moving to Evergreen is that you don’t have to be worried as much about the future of your ILS. Realistically, there are going to be concerns no matter what ILS you chose, but consider a practical example. One of the hottest and mosting interesting trends in library systems is the decoupling of your online catalog from your ILS. Evergreen comes with a built-in indexing engine that is very good and getting better all the time; nevertheless, your library may have local requirements to explore other open source or proprietary discovery alternatives (e.g. vuFind, Blacklight, Endeca, BiblioCommons, etc.). Since many ILSs offer only restricted access or have weak API ‘hooks’ into your data, many libraries face the prospect of having to “gamble” up front on a bet with a single vendor to do it all. And if their vendor’s search engine strategy falters, you’re left with limited, often costly options to improve upon the situation.

“Since we want to keep as many doors open as possible, we’re able to sit more comfortably with the knowledge that our data is stored in a vendor-neutral repository - and already, we see the marketplace is advancing with connector drivers for both open source and proprietary search solutions that can work with Evergreen (e.g. vuFind & Endeca). This also meant that we didn’t have to determine in advance the ‘ultimate’ discovery solution for our users right now, when we’re more focussed on short term challenges such as completing our first migration.”

“In the short to medium term, we’re hoping to see some key gaps filled (serials control for example), and longer term, we’d like to see how the community exploits the powerful, underlying general platform upon which Evergreen is built (for example, as a possible platform for non-MARC-compliant datasources, etc.).”

The newsletter for Evergreen open source library software 

Volume 2, Issue 4 — April, 2009

April Means it’s Almost May!

And you know what that means — it’s less than 50 days to the first-ever Evergreen International Conference! Read more about it below.

As a reminder, we will also post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion list (see all Evergreen lists) and to the Evergreen blog. Cross-posting and forwarding is encouraged.

In This Issue…

Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen 1.4.0.4 Released, Evergreen Conference Highlights, Lyrasis Evergreen Classes, Documentation Update, Planet Evergreen, New Evergreen Libraries, Newsletter Administrivia

Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar

Let us know and we’ll add your “out and about with Evergreen” events to this calendar!

British Columbia Library Association (Burnaby, April 16-18) will feature a talk by Karen Schneider on creativity and open source. 

Evergreen International Conference (Athens, Georgia, May 20 - 22, 2009). Our first conference! Joe Lucia and Jessamyn West will be keynoting! See more about this exciting event below.

American Library Association Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois, July 9-15). We’ll be exhibiting, meeting with people, and so forth!

WilsWorld (Madison, Wisconsin, July 28-29). Karen Schneider to do a plenary session. Karen spoke at one of the earliest WilsWorld conferences and is excited to return!

Past Conferences: The Computers in Libraries panel was a big success. It featured Ruth Dukelow of Michigan Evergreen, Karen Collier and Andrea Buntz-Neiman of Kent County Library, and Karen Schneider of Equinox Software, and we were all magnificent! The VTLS Users Group was also a fine event, and thanks again to VTLS for the opportunity to share about open source. Meanwhile, Equinox Software had a grand old time at the Texas Library Association conference, and many current and possibly future Evergreeners stopped by to say hi or share their Evergreen stories.

Evergreen 1.4.0.4 Released

Evergreen 1.4.0.4 (the latest in the 1.4.0* series) was released March 26, 2009 (see the feature list). 

Kent County, which is running a patched version of 1.4.0.3, played an instrumental role in testing the code that became 1.4.0.4. Kent is a relatively small Evergreen site, and their willingness to be guinea pigs helps everyone.

Karen Collier says, “There were two factors that prompted our early upgrade to the 1.4.x series. First, we wanted Vandelay, the new MARC importer feature within the staff client. Our Technical Services Librarian already loves the new capabilities. Secondly, we wanted a Z39.50 server so we could fully participate in our state’s resource sharing network. There’s a little more development required before that happens, but the Z server is a big step toward that goal.” A big thank you to Kent!

See the Evergreen download page for source code, staff client, images, and more. Have fun with the MARC record importer-exporter, the locale picker, and other great features — it’s a blast!

Remember that the Evergreen staff client needs to match the server version — a 1.4 staff client will not work with a 1.2 series server.

Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009

Register at http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen

Also see the growing conference wiki where you can sign up for dine-arounds, table talks, etc.! 

Here are the top ten tidbits about this wonderful, can’t-miss conference:

1. Takes place May 20-22, 2009 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia, a very attractive university town with great restaurants and pubs, just one hour from the Atlanta airport. Accommodations are delightfully reasonable business hotels a comfy walking distance to the Classic Center.

2. Outstanding program lineup! You can see the full track on the conference wiki 

3. Fascinating keynote speakers: Joe Lucia of Villanova University (and Vufind fame), and Jessamyn West, noted librarian, technology advocate, blogger/writer, and champion of open source!

4. User led 5-minute lightning talks will spark up the conference, while Birds of a Feather sessions and breakfast Table Talks offer even more opportunities to commune with like-minded peers about topics of interest. Even if you don’t have a full 45-minute program to offer, you may have 5 minutes for sharing a great idea.

5. Wednesday, May 20 is an all-day Hackfest (no additional registration fee) in the comfortable environs of the Classic Center. Don’t be dissuaded by the word “hack”! If you have an idea and want quiet, wired space to explore it it with other colleagues, just plan on it. We already have several happening–including at least a half-day high-level discussion on documentation, and possibly a “survival skills” camp for sysadmins.

6. The conference kicks off the evening of May 21 with a Vendor Reception — just enough food to replenish you before you head out into the adorable environs of downtown Athens, with its pubs and restaurants. If you’re a vendor, note that the reception is a no-conflict event, so we can give your products lots of attention!

7. Sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities abound — sponsor at a specific level (Gold, Silver, Platinum), sponsor one of our many events, or just exhibit!

8. Add to all this, affordable accommodations in a very attractive walking town, superb local meal values, and free wifi at the Classic Center!

The 2009 Evergreen Conference is jointly coordinated by Georgia Public Library Service, Equinox Software, and Lyrasis. Also, special thanks to Karen Collier at Kent County Library, Maryland, for participating in the program review process.

Lyrasis Rolls Out More Evergreen Training Classes

Evergreen classes are being offered online by Lyrasis (nee Solinet) on the following dates and times:

May 6-7th Evergreen Cataloging Module. Two hours each day at 10:00am-12:00pm EST

May 27th Evergreen Guided Tour and Demo (Free).

June 4th Evergreen Admin and Stats Module. Two hours from 10:00am-12:00pm

Since October, Lyrasis, formerly known as SOLINET and PALINET, has taught close to 25 Evergreen classes with over 100 students! Lyrasis is dedicated to training and instructing Evergreen and welcomes your comments and suggestions for courses. All of our current course offerings are continuously updated and we plan on adding more courses to our catalog on future topics. Feel free to contact Lyrasis Instructors at Jennifer.bielewski@lyrasis.org or Jenny.Liberatore@lyrasis.org for comments or questions about Evergreen courses. We will be at the Evergreen Conference in Athens, GA and are excited to meet those of you attending!

Planet Evergreen

Can’t get enough news about Evergreen open source software? Subscribe to (or just read) Planet Evergreen, an aggregator for Evergreen-related posts, at http://planet.evergreen-ils.org . Have a blog that talks about Evergreen? To add your blog (or blog subset) to the Planet Evergreen blog aggregator, send email to Dan Scott at dan@coffeecode.net

Documentation Update

McMaster University intern Betty Ing has produced draft documentation for an Evergreen style manual and reserves documentation (yes! reserves is in work, along with serials and acquisitions). She produced this in Docbook XML. Karen Schneider will walk people through these proofs-of-concept at the conference “hackfest” on the afternoon of May 20.

Evergreen on Facebook

Evergreen has a growing Facebook group. We are now posting events to this group, such as the Evergreen conference and the ALA Midwinter get-together, as well as press releases for new Evergreen libraries and systems and other related news. The group now has over 280 members. If you’re on Facebook, join our group. If you aren’t on Facebook and you don’t think you’re the Facebook “type,” give it a try. You might be surprised by who’s on Facebook!

A Few Reminders

Webinars and videos: Don’t forget the section on the Evergreen wiki devoted to community-contributed documentation and tutorials. Dan Scott from Laurentian just added a video about reports.

Evergreen also has a Flickr set (don’t miss Bob Molyneux posing with two giant cats at TXLA): 

New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!

This is a surprisingly quiet month for migrations, but hang on — there’s more coming down the pike! Also see the growing list of Evergreen libraries 

Self-implemented Sites:

William Jessup University, Rocklin, California (go Golden State!)

Up and Coming:

Evergreen open source library software will power SC LENDs (South Carolina Library Evergreen Network Delivery System), a statewide consortium for a massive shared catalog and other services spearheaded by the South Carolina State Library. 11 libraries will go live in 2011, making SC LENDS the second-largest Evergreen consortium. As noted earlier, King County Library System (in Washington State), Natural Resources Canada, and North Texas Regional Library System have signed contracts with Equinox. Welcome aboard!

Newsletter Administrivia

Feel free to forward, share, etc.!

The deadline for the Evergreen newsletter is the last working day before the first of the month… feel free to submit items earlier. The co-wranglers for this newsletter are Karen Schneider, Equinox Community Librarian and John Fink, Digital Technologies Development librarian at McMaster University.

Dear folks, were you planning to register for the 2009 Evergreen International Conference and then realized the Early Bird deadline had slipped by? Or did you try to register last week and you ran into a glitch or two? Well, you’re in luck, because we just extended the Early Bird registration deadline to Monday, April 13!

So just mosey on over to the conference registration website (can you tell a bunch of us just got back from Texas Library Association’s conference?) and get yourselves registered. Note that the website URL has changed to http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen .

We have close to 100 people registered already, an outstanding program lineup, fabulous keynote speakers (Joe Lucia and Jessamyn West), and many opportunities to make this first Evergreen conference truly YOUR conference!

Don’t delay — we’re holding this to 150 attendees and if you’ve been meaning to register, now is your golden opportunity to get a great deal and make sure you can attend Evergreen International Conference 2009!

Also see the conference wiki, with the program lineup, local activities, and much more.

Early bird registration for the Evergreen International Conference ends close of business tomorrow, Friday, April 3. Do not tarry, save $10 and register now at the NEW (note: I said NEW) conference web address:

http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen

We have 18 great programs, two great keynotes (Jessamyn West and Joe Lucia), and a slew of user-generated activities such as lightning talks, table talks, Birds of a Feather, dine-arounds, hackfests, and more! See the conference wiki for all kinds of eg09 goodness (to invoke the conference social-awareness tag).

Some of us are planning to have a high-level discussion about documentation on 1-4 p.m. on May 20 (the “hackfest” day). If you’re interested, give a holler. If you have other ideas, share them here, on the list, or elsewhere!

Hope to see you at the conference — which is jointly sponsored by Georgia Public Library Service, LYRASIS, and Equinox Software.

Interested in open source technologies, public libraries, and working with an agile team of software designers and developers? In this position, a software developer will work on site with public library staff and also work with Evergreen’s support and development company to assist in the development of the Evergreen Integrated Library System. This is a great opportunity to work closely with one of the largest public libraries in the nation and become an influential participant in Evergreen’s growing development community.

See this announcement for the full job description and contact information.

Today’s webinar, Understanding Open Source, went smashingly, particularly with the assistance of Jason Etheridge (Evergreen developer, Equinox software) and Randy Metcalfe (Program director, eIFL-FLOSS). It was a big crowd (over 60 folks) and we moved through a lot of examples, comments, and questions. We truly had the luck o’ the Irish: Jason lost Internet access… half an hour after the webcast ended!

Here’s the recording, and here’s a link to a blog post mentioned in the discussion, The Foundations of Openness. Thanks to those who attended, and please do post follow-up questions here or to the Evergreen lists.

For those of you who couldn’t be there, the recording should be a help, but if you’d like this webinar presented again… well, heck, it took a while to make those slides and I wouldn’t mind getting a second use out of them!

Volume 2, Issue 3 — March, 2009 … The newsletter for the Evergreen community!

Evergreen International Conference May 20-22, 2009

Evergreen: A Perfect Color for St. Patrick’s Day!

‘Tis the luck o’ the Irish to be an Evergreen user! As a reminder, we will post this newsletter to the Evergreen general discussion list (see all Evergreen lists). Cross-posting and forwarding is encouraged.

In This Issue…

Evergreen Out and About, Evergreen 1.4.0.3 Imminent, Evergreen Conference (Program Lineup now available!), Mark Jordan’s nifty Drupal tool, Evergreen Webinars, SOLINET Evergreen Classes, Documentation Update, New Evergreen Libraries, Newsletter Administrivia

Out and About: An Evergreen Calendar

Let us know and we’ll add your “out and about with Evergreen” events to this calendar!

VTLS Users Group (Blacksburg VA, March 19): Karen Schneider from Equinox will be keynoting about open source and creativity.

Computers in Libraries (D.C., March 30 - April 1): will feature a rock-out, boffo panel of Evergreen Divas: Karen Schneider from Equinox; Ruth Dukelow from Michigan Library Consortium; Karen Collier and Andrea Neiman from Kent County Library in Maryland.

Texas Library Association (Houston, March 31 - April 3): We’re exhibiting there, so scoot your boots over to booth 1115 and sit a spell with Shae, Karen, Bob, and Brad!

British Columbia Library Association (Burnaby, April 16-18) will feature a talk by Karen Schneider on creativity and open source.

Evergreen International Conference (Athens, Georgia, May 20 - 22, 2009): Our first conference! Joe Lucia and Jessamyn West will be keynoting! Program lineup now available! See more about this exciting event below.

American Library Association Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois, July 9-15). We’ll be exhibiting, meeting with people, and so forth!

WilsWorld (Madison, Wisconsin, July 28-29). Karen Schneider to do a plenary session. Karen spoke at one of the earliest WilsWorld conferences and is excited to return!

Past Conferences: Code4Lib, for which Equinox was a Gold Sponsor, was a terrific event. Mike Rylander and Karen Schneider were there waving the Evergreen flag. Karen monitored one of the two camcorders, swapping out 18 tapes (can you tell she was a Campfire Girl?), and when the videos are up we’ll let you know.

Evergreen 1.4.0.3 Imminent!

Evergreen 1.4.0.3 (the latest in the 1.4.0*) series is imminent. See the 1.4.0 series feature list and the Evergreen software download page for source code, staff client, images, and more. Have fun with the MARC record importer-exporter, the locale picker, and other great features — it’s a blast!

Remember that the Evergreen staff client needs to match the server version.

Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009

See the official conference page where you can register for the conference and the growing conference wiki where you can sign up for dine-arounds, table talks, etc.!

Questions? Sponsorship and exhibits requests? Program submissions? Email events@evergreen-ils.org

The first-ever Evergreen International Conference is just two months away! Here are the top ten tidbits about this wonderful, can’t-miss conference:

1. Takes place May 20-22, 2009 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia, a very attractive university town with great restaurants and pubs, just one hour from the Atlanta airport. Accommodations are delightfully reasonable business hotels a comfy walking distance to the Classic Center.

2. Early Bird Registration continues through March 31, 2009 on the conference website — We are holding this conference to a comfortable 150 attendees, so spaces will fill fast — don’t delay!

3. Fascinating keynote speakers: Joe Lucia of Villanova University (and Vufind fame), and Jessamyn West, noted librarian, technology advocate, blogger/writer, and champion of open source!

4. Outstanding programs! Wow! We had great submissions. Please don’t forget you can also do a 5-minute lightning talk, a Birds of a Feather or breakfast table talk, or just hang with folks and discuss issues. (Dine-arounds will be great mingling opportunities as well.)

You can see the full track on the conference wiki, but here are the programs in a nutshell:

The Big Picture
Emily Almond, GPLS: You’re Live… Now What?
Evette Atkin, Michigan Library Consortium: Ready, Fire, Aim!
Lori Ayre, Galecia Group: Out of the Frying Pan
Bielewski-Gregory-Tetterton, SOLINET-PINES, Equinox. Migration Nation: Planning for Success
Elizabeth McKinney, GPLS: The Emotional Impact of Open Source
Karen Schneider, Equinox: TCO of Open Source Software

Front-Line Staff

Karen Collier, Kent County, MD: Evergreen and Small Libraries
Dawn Dale, GPLS: Evergreen: Easy to Learn, Easy to Use
Elaine Hardy, PINES: Bibliographic Database Integrity
Chris Sharp, GPLS: Voices of Experience
Jim Bartram Veatch, Trail Regional Library: Electronic Government Publications for PINES
Tigran Zargaryan, Fundamental Scientific Library, Armenia: Evergreen in Armenia

Technology Track

George Duimovich, NRCan: Electronic Resource Management
Bill Erickson, Equinox: Building New Interfaces
David Fiander, University of Western Ontario: Predicting the Future with MFHD
Grant Johnson, University of Prince Edward: Island Bits and Pieces
Mike Rylander, Equinox: OpenSRF and Jabber
Dan Scott, Conifer Project: Evergreen Globalization

5. May 20 is an all-day Hackfest (no additional registration fee) in the comfortable environs of the Classic Center. Don’t be dissuaded by the word “hack”! If you have an idea and want quiet, wired space to explore it it with other colleagues, just plan on it. We already have several happening–including at least a half-day session on documentation.

6. The conference kicks off the evening of May 21 with a Vendor Reception — just enough food to replenish you before you head out into the adorable environs of downtown Athens, with its pubs and restaurants. If you’re a vendor, note that the reception is a no-conflict event, so we can give your products lots of attention!

7. May 21 - 22 features fascinating programs, long breaks where you can network with peers, a Birds of a Feather luncheon (sign up in advance to sit with folks with common interests) and a Table Talk Breakfast.

8. User-led 5-minute lightning talks will spark up the conference, while Birds of a Feather sessions and breakfast Table Talks offer even more opportunities to commune with like-minded peers about topics of interest. Even if you don’t have a full 45-minute program to offer, you may have 5 minutes for sharing a great idea.

9. Sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities abound — sponsor at a specific level (Gold, Silver, Platinum), sponsor one of our many events, or just exhibit!

10. Affordable accommodations (we just lined up two great but also great-priced hotels within walking distance), superb local meal values, and the Classic Center has free wifi!

The 2009 Evergreen Conference is jointly coordinated by Georgia Public Library Service, Equinox Software, and SOLINET. Also, special thanks to Karen Collier at Kent County Library, Maryland, for participating in the program review process.

Drupal Module for Evergreen: ILS Authentication

Mark Jordan of Simon Fraser University Library in Burnaby, British Columbia has written a Drupal module called ILS Authentication that allows people to log into a Drupal website using their Evergreen credentials. The module is intended to make it as easy as possible to write drivers (simple PHP authentication scripts) for other library systems as well.

Mark commented about ILS Authentication, “What I find cool about this type of module is that it shows how easy it is for disparate apps to talk to each other if they are both open.” If you want to write a driver for your ILS, Mark would be happy to hear from you (mjordan@sfu.ca). For more information, visit http://drupalib.interoperating.info/ilsauthen .

Evergreen Webinar Update

Watch for a separate announcement on the lists and blogs, but due to popular demand, there will be two free half-hour webinars in March available to anyone who wants to attend:

Webinar on Webinars: This was a huge success! See the slides and video of the presentation.

There’s still room in Understanding Open Source, rescheduled to March 17, 2 p.m. Eastern Time.
SOLINET Rolls Out More Evergreen Training Classes

SOLINET continues to offer free online Evergreen demos! The next one is March 31st (11am-noon).These free demos provide overviews of Evergreen’s popular features and gives participants a chance to ask questions in a training environment.

SOLINET also offers three fee-based online classes on Evergreen modules. All class times are Eastern Standard:

Evergreen Circulation: OPAC searching, navigating the staff client, creating and maintaining patron accounts, using tools and options, check in/check out and other circulation procedures such as creating and maintaining holds. Offered March 31st (2-4pm).

Evergreen Cataloging: This is now a 2-day class that covers creating, editing and merging records; transferring items; using buckets; and importing/exporting records. Offered March 24th-25th (10am-noon).

Evergreen Local Administration and Statistics: A more advanced class that covers configuring Evergreen locally, setting user permissions, creating templates for printing receipts and running reports. Offered March 25th (10am-noon).

To register for SOLINET’s Evergreen training (including the free demo), just visit Solinet’s Educational Services Registration website

For questions, contact SOLINET trainers Jennifer Bielewski and Jenny Liberatore, 1-800-999-8558 or jbielewski@solinet.net

Documentation Update

McMaster University intern Betty Ing has been working closely with Karen Schneider of Equinox and John Fink of McMaster on a proof of concept for generating documentation in Docbook, an XML format. Watch for more about this on the list and the newsletter!

Evergreen on Facebook

Evergreen has a growing Facebook group. We are now posting events to this group, such as the Evergreen conference and the ALA Midwinter get-together, as well as press releases for new Evergreen libraries and systems and other related news. The group now has over 270 members. If you’re on Facebook, join our group. If you aren’t on Facebook and you don’t think you’re the Facebook “type,” give it a try. You might be surprised by who’s on Facebook!

A Few Reminders

Webinars and videos: Don’t forget the section on the Evergreen wiki devoted to community-contributed documentation and tutorials.

Evergreen also has a Flickr set recently updated with pictures from Code4Lib.

New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard!

Below are the newest Evergreen libraries - the Evergreen installations known to have taken place since our last newsletter in mid-January. Quite a batch! Also see the growing list of Evergreen libraries.

Evergreen Indiana:

Hagerstown Public Libraries
Madison-Jefferson County
Noble County
Otterbein
Thorntown

British Columbia SITKA:

Rossland Public Library
Salmo Public Library

Self-implemented Sites:

The Law Society of British Columbia has gone live with Evergreen. The bulk of the work was accomplished by Jeremy Buhler, a graduate student from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. Buhler developed the main page and migrated the data. Buhler recently began working with British Columbia SITKA as a trainer/help desk specialist.

Up and Coming:

Natural Resources Canada and North Texas Regional Library System have both committed to migrating to Evergreen. Welcome aboard!

If you’d like to follow along as libraries join the Evergreen community, you can subscribe to the Equinox press release feed, which will announce most known Evergreen implementations (or follow the Facebook group mentioned above). The Equinox press release feed was recently tweaked to make it easier to track and share the releases.

Newsletter Administrivia

Feel free to forward, share, etc.

The deadline for the Evergreen newsletter is announced on the general Evergreen mailing list. The co-wranglers for this newsletter are Karen Schneider, Equinox Community Librarian and John Fink, Digital Technologies Development librarian at McMaster University.

The Webinar on Webinars was a lot of fun! Thanks to the folks on the PUBLIB discussion list who gave it the thumbs-up and encouraged me to do it.  Consider this one more way to share information with our communities of interest — including Evergreen, of course!

I’ve pasted in the slides, and here’s a link to the video. Bon appetit!

I missed that the previously scheduled (and since canceled) webinar on open source had been announced on this blog (and I put it there…).Hence:

Note new date and time!

Understanding Open Source, Tues, March 17, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. ET

Join us for a Webinar on March 17 about open source software! Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/813256302

This webinar will answer the most commonly-asked questions about open source software, such as…

* What does “free” mean?
* Why are libraries using open source software?
* What kind of open source software is available for libraries?
* Do we have to maintain it ourselves? (Quick spoiler: no.)
* What are the characteristics of good open source software?
* What are some easy ways to learn more about open source software?

Bring your own questions, as well!

This webinar offers flexible access options. You can:

1. Use a computer headset with a microphone to both listen and speak

2. Phone in to a toll-based conference line, or

3. Listen in on computer speakers and text your thoughts in a chat window.

The session will open up 15 minutes early for people who want to practice their webinar skills or test their equipment.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements

(Note: we have had trouble finding affordable webinar software that supported Linux workstations — let alone a satisfactory product that was itself open source. If you have suggestions, we’re all ears.)

PC-based attendees:

Required: Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh-based attendees:

Required: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or newer

Now that I have moved webinar times twice and canceled a third, I believe I have invoked the magic “rule of three” and at least in the short-term future can anticipate few or no wrinkles in these events.

(Cross-posted to the Evergreen blog, list, and Facebook group.) Hear this very short podcast of Jessamyn West on the value of open source software in libraries — a quick preview of Jessamyn’s talk at the upcoming Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22 in Athens, Georgia.

Coming soon: a short recording of Joe Lucia, our other keynote speaker!

Program proposals for Evergreen International Conference 2009 are due Monday, March 2.  We’ve seen some great proposals flow in, but we’re looking and hoping for more. Send yours in!

Please don’t worry about the category — a really good program will find a home. I’m at the Code4Lib 2009 conference right now — a single-track conference in one large room — and it’s making me wonder if some of the proposals we’ve seen wouldn’t fit well as all-conference programs!

We on the Evergreen Conference planning committee have had some very good questions about the conference programs, and I’ll quote one (almost) verbatim:

“Would attending this first Evergreen conference likely be useful for someone who doesn’t use Evergreen now, but would like a sort-of crash-course?  I’m more interested in seeing and hearing basic implementation stories and technical issues that tend to crop up in early stages of Evergreen deployment; will that be a part of the tracks?”

The answer: absolutely! Consider this a track-within-a-track that can cross functional lines (staff, tech, admin). Success stories, getting-started stories, how and why you selected Evergreen, the value of using Evergreen, how you made the pitch — consider these for full programs, as well as lightning talks and even Birds of a Feather sessions where you can swap tales and tips.

If you’re trying to persuade stakeholders of the economic and technical feasibility of Evergreen, the Evergreen International Conference is a great conference to attend.