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Evergreen Community Survey

Once again Spring comes around and with it the Evergreen International Conference. With the conference a month away we are preparing to do the second Evergreen Community Annual Report to be distributed at the conference and online.

The Outreach Committee is working to make this happen but one of the most important parts is capturing a picture of the libraries who make up our community and that is where we need your help! As we did last year we have a survey for Evergreen libraries to respond to : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YS5RLRG

Whether you are one location, a large consortium, a corporate library or anything else, if you use Evergreen we want to hear from you. We got great responses last year so I hope everyone who responded does so again. However, there are also parts of the community that I know did not get a chance to respond so don’t assume that someone else from your library will. Make sure your library is represented!

Again: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YS5RLRG

Also, if you don’t already follow the community Evergreen account on twitter please do so, @EvergreenILS and follow the #evgils hash tag. Conference tweets are going out with the #evgils17 hashtag including recognizing our great conference sponsors and exhibitors so let them know you care about their support of the conference.

Welcome Julia to the Evergreen OPW Internship Project

The Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women announced the names of interns who will be participating in the program’s December 2014 – March 2015 internship round.

The Evergreen project is pleased to announce that Julia Lima of Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba, Argentina will be working with the Evergreen community during this internship period to create a User Interface Style Guide for the new web client.

Julia is a student studying design at the Universidad Provincial de Cordoba in Argentina. She will work on the style guide during her summer break. As part of her contribution to the project this fall, Julia made three specific recommendations to improve the existing web client User Interface.

The Evergreen OPW mentors selected Julia’s proposal after reviewing proposals from nine potential candidates, several of whom worked with the community during the application period and submitted very good proposals. Bill Erickson, Grace Dunbar, and Dan Wells will serve as project mentors for the UI Style Guide.

Expect to hear more from Julia as she begins working on her project next month.

We also hope to continue hearing from the many candidates with whom we connected during the application period. They brought a lot of enthusiasm and fresh ideas to the project, and we encourage everyone to keep working with us as time allows.

I also want to extend thanks to all the mentors who worked with potential candidates during the application period and reviewed the applications; to others in the community who helped the candidates with installation, answered their questions, and provided feedback to their ideas; and to the Evergreen Oversight Board for supporting the project by funding the internship.

 

 

 

 

Draft rules of governance for Evergreen Software Foundation – for discussion

After a great deal of effort through the summer, the Governance Committee struck at the 2010 Evergreen Conference is pleased to provide for your review and feedback the proposed rules of governance for the Evergreen Software Foundation. These rules can be found at the top of the “governance structure” space of the Evergreen wiki in wiki format, OpenDocument format, and Word format.

The proposed rules of governance describe the purpose of the Evergreen Software Foundation as having the mission to:

(i) promote, support, and advance the Evergreen software;
(ii) support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Evergreen users;
(ii) foster and protect the Evergreen assets;
(iii) serve as a resource and communication device for Evergreen users; and
(iv) serve as a funding and grant seeking source for cooperative
development projects.

Hopefully these goals are self-explanatory, but some explanation of (ii) (the second ii – heh – some editing still required): the “Evergreen assets” are the trademarks, logos, domain names, and some hardware currently held by GPLS PINES and Equinox, as well as copyright over portions of the code, should institutions or individuals for some reason opt to contribute their copyright to the foundation. The assets would also include funds that result from donations to the project, revenues from conferences, etc.

The Governance Committee has chosen to submit a membership application to the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://sfconservancy.org) as the most expedient route to functioning within a 501(c)(3) non-profit structure that offers tax benefits for donations made by residents of the United States. The membership application is also visible at the top of the “governance structure” space of the Evergreen wiki.

These are significant steps for the Evergreen community, and your feedback on the proposed rules of governance for the foundation is genuinely desired. For the foundation to be successful, we need to be sure that we have the confidence and trust of the community to move forward with the proposal. If, after reading the documents, there are aspects of the plans or documents that you find confusing, or that you find worrisome, please raise your concern on the Evergreen General mailing list – you probably won’t be alone! If you have suggestions for amendments, please post those suggestions to this mailing list as well.