<shaking fist> Damn you, Eyjafjallajökull! As a US attendee, I'm very sad to hear that we will have no Europeans. I'm sure I'm not the only one very disappointed.
Lori Ayre On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Afelonne Doek <a...@iisg.nl> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > > Here we are, behind our desks at the International Institute of Social > History, instead of being up in the air on our way to Grand Rapids… > > As you may have heard, there has been an eruption of the > Eyjafjallajökull-volcano in Iceland, causing ash clouds over the North > Atlantic. These clouds are resulting in the closure of all European airports > and the cancellation of thousands of flights worldwide since last Thursday > April 14th. Our flight has also been cancelled and the first available > flights are expected on Friday, so there is no way we can attend. > > Therefore no Evergreen conference for the Dutch! For consolation we have > already eaten all the stroopwafels, drop and Wilhelmina peppermints we > bought to share with you at the conference. > > > > We are really sorry to miss all the interesting talks, workshops and > opportunities to meet the Evergreen community and are hoping that we can get > as much information as possible that is going to be shared and presented at > the conference. > > Besides meeting the developers and other Evergreen users we were looking > forward to attend a lot of sessions. > > We would really appreciate it if presentation slides or other material > could be send to us, and maybe if presentations are being taped we can see > that online. > > Written down below are sessions we were and are still especially interested > in: > > > > - Authority roundtable (Hackfest: Shea Tetteron) > > - Slinging Data: Data loading and Cleanup in Evergreen (Galen > Charlton) > > - So can I change the code? (Kate Sheehan) > > - Evergreen Acquisitions Roundup (Bill Erickson) > > - The lifecycle of an OSRF Request (Scott McKellar) > > - Getting there from here (Cheryl Gould) > > - My brain ‘urts! Or Evergreen SQL 101 (Mike Rylander) > > - Migration and Training: Preparing your Data and your staff for > Transition to Evergreen (Sally Fortin and Shea Tetteron) > > - Managing Serials with Evergreen (Steven Putt and Daniel Wells) > > - Each One Train One (Jennifer Bielewski and Jenny Liberatore) > > > > > > Not being able to attend the conference faces us with the challenge how to > continue our work on Evergreen. > > Of course we still intend to put resources and work into enhancements > (Authorities, Record id, Serials…) and having Evergreen as our new library > system up and running by the end of 2010. > > Right now we are discussing the possible other options to meet EG > developers. Any suggestions? > > > > Kind regards, > > Afelonne, Marjolein and Ole > > International Institute of Social History > > > > > > .......................................................................... > > > > Afelonne Doek > > *Senior Information Analist* > > International Institute of Social History** > > > > Postbus 2169, 1000 CD Amsterdam > > Visiting address: Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam > > * * > > Tel: +31 20 66 858 66 > > a...@iisg.nl > > www.iisg.nl > > > > [image: IISG75years] > > > > >
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