Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project as its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects.
Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians, developers, and documenters, are excited to announce that Evergreen is now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a home to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. As a fiscal sponsor for FLOSS projects, the Conservancy provides member projects with financial and administrative services and FLOSS project policy and non-profit oversight. This allows software developers and documenters to focus on those activities exclusively.
By joining the Conservancy, Evergreen obtains the benefits of a formal non-profit organizational structure while keeping the project focused on software development and documentation. Some benefits of joining the Conservancy include the ability to collect donations, hold assets on behalf of the project, and some protection of the lead developers of the project from personal liability when engaging in the activities of the project. A full list of Conservancy member project benefits is available on Conservancy’s website. The Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, incorporated in New York State.
About Evergreen
The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software, also called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as circulation (checkouts and checkins), acquisition and cataloging of library materials, and sharing resources among groups of libraries and consortia on the same Evergreen system. Evergreen is designed to be scalable and supports library operations ranging from a small high school to large state-wide consortia. Evergreen is released under the GPL version 2 or later.
2021 Evergreen International Online Conference
We are just a couple weeks away from the 2021 Evergreen International Online Conference! The conference is taking place Tuesday, May 25th through Thursday, May 27th 2021. A separate preconference event will be held Monday, May 24th and a documentation and developer hackfest is planned for Friday, May 28th. We encourage you to use the conference hashtag #evgils21 in any social media posts.
Registration for preconference & main conference events will be open until Monday, May 17th. Registration for the hackfests, which are free, will remain open though the conference.
There’s a great lineup of sessions planned, so please see the full Conference Schedule and Program Descriptions pages. All preconference and regular conference sessions will be recorded and made available within a few weeks after the conference. Recordings will be posted on the community YouTube page. All sessions except interest groups & roundtables will also have live captioning available.
As a reminder to all attendees, this event is subject to the community Code of Conduct and Photography/Audio/Video Policy. There are designated Responders for this event as well as a form to report Code of Conduct violations.
Last but not least, a huge thanks to our Sponsors and Exhibitors for making this event possible! We are so grateful for your support of both the conference and the larger Evergreen community.