How exciting! Welcome. Are you sending anyone to the Evergreen Conference in Indiana this April?
Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // [email protected] Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre <[email protected]>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Olli-Antti Kivilahti < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello again Evergreen mailing list! > > Just wanted to make a public announcement that the regional library of > Joensuu has decided to have Evergreen as our ILS-of-choice. We will have > EG in production by/during the year 2014. It was a tough battle between > Koha and Evergreen, where according to our requirements specification, > Evergreen lost by 1 point of 470. Regardless of the much larger > technical difficulties perceived in adapting, maintaining and developing > Evergreen, we found the consortial model to be crucial for our library > needs. Our consortium will include the whole province of North-Carelia > (ca. 200 000 residents). We have around 20 branches and 4 municipal > libraries that need to be joined together, with the promises of Southern > Central Finland joining us with equal amount of branches. > We are already starting the localization process by outsourcing the > Launchpad translation and aim to complete it by the end of June. > Hopefully by then our Fenno-American cousins can enjoy their Evergreen > in Finnish. > Currently the main challenges are to finish with our Software > Requirements Specification(SRS), which is around 55% complete. Make more > detailed plans for the database migrations, for which we need to migrate > three different systems, and have more expertise in understanding the > Evergreen development workflow. To that end I was planning to > participate in the Google Summer of Code. > We will host the servers and databases, do the migrations and set up > Library settings by ourselves. > Community support will however play a critical role with the success of > our project. And we are willing to pay for it. It is unclear as to what > extent, but propably will require participation during UTC/GMT +2 > working hours or even moving to Finland. It might be possible to hire a > Evergreen specialist for the duration of 6 months to 1 year. > We also have plans for Evergreen improvements and would like to discuss > about how to integrate them to the master branch. We have reserved > 47000€ for the improvement of services and it might be best to start > thinking ahead on how to implement, and in what timeframe, the changes > we prioritize, if possible. And possibly make joint efforts with > existing development teams. > Once the SRS will come closer to completion, I will translate it to > English and publish it. > > -- > Olli-Antti Kivilahti > Open Library 2013 > Library of Joensuu >
