Very basic foundations

There are a bunch of core technologies that Evergreen has in common with thousands of applications.
- LAPP
  - Linux
  - Apache
  - PostgreSQL
  - Perl
Occassionally Evergreen inspires work on core projects
- Pg
- Mozilla XUL
Nothing special, though

Library application foundations

Yaz & IndexData
Library::Callnumber::LC
MARC::Record

Direct code sharing

SIPServer
(eventually) NCIPServer

Coopetition

Each F/LOSS ILS has focuses
But…
Koha is used by consortia
Evergreen is used by small libraries
Some Koha libraries have switched to Evergreen
… and vice versa

Bragging on Evergreen

Collegial community
Strive to quality

Bragging on Koha

International focus
Keeping barriers to entry low

Process idea exchange

Evergreen has a lot to learn from Koha
- Dashboard
- QA process
- Toolbuilding, particularly with the bug tracker
- Bug-wrangling days
- Web-based installer; ease of installation
Koha has a lot to learn from Evergreen
- Decentralization of commit responsibility
- Architecture

Sharing ideas

Conferences
- free conference
- conference + hackfest

Sharing people

Folks who have contributed code to both Evergreen and Koha
- Galen Charlton
- Jason Etheridge
- Dan Scott
Folks who participate in discussions
- Chris Cormack
- Jason Stephenson
- Ben Shum

Future directions

There should be some sort of joint Koha and Evergreen conference
Let’s make it happen

What unifies us

Serving libraries and their patrons
Licensing
F/LOSS philosophy

What divides us

Time is not infinite
There are plenty of areas of difference of opinion
Not calling for a merge
- No EverKoha
- No KohaGreen

Not just Evergreen & Koha

Linked Data
Protocol support
ERMS projects

Call to action

Joint conference
Cross-subscribe to mailing lists
Join each other’s mailing lists
Pop in on each other’s local conference sessions