Amy,
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll repeat here for the General list something that I posted in one of our Evergreen Governance discussions: " I won't speak for other consortia, but I can tell you that PINES is not really set up to work this way, with each of its member libraries having individual Evergreen Foundation memberships. "PINES" as a whole consists of its member libraries, who are represented by a governance body called the "PINES Executive Committee", which represents libraries by size of population served. The PINES Executive Committee speaks on behalf of the entire consortium and so would be in direct conflict of point (b). The PINES staff of GPLS facilitates the business of the Executive Committee and would bring development needs approved by the Executive Committee on behalf of the full consortium." So in PINES' case, we would need to be a single member since we speak with one voice. And GPLS is definitely not a vendor either. :-) Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 [email protected] http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ From: "Amy Terlaga" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:28:00 PM Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Draft rules of governance for Evergreen Software Foundation - for discussion Kathy has a point and I’m sorry I missed the distinction caught up in the wording of (iv) library that is a member of an Evergreen consortium If you look at the make-up of the interim Evergreen Board, you will see that most of us fit into the category that ISN’T defined below. PINES, Bibliomation, Evergreen Indiana, SITKA, others …. The members on the Board are staff members of the consortium, NOT library staff members of an Evergreen consortium. And no, I don’t think that we should stick consortia in with the vendors. We’re a different animal. Amy Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:36:11 -0400 From: "Kathy Lussier" <[email protected]> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** RE: Draft rules of governance for Evergreen Software Foundation - for discussion To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, What a great discussion on the draft rules! I have a question about Section 3.3. Part (d) states: For the purpose of broad representation on the Oversight Board, it is preferred that each of the following is represented on the board: (i) academic library (ii) public library (iii) independent library that is not part of a consortium (iv) library that is a member of an Evergreen consortium (v) library located outside of the United States (vi) state library (vii) vendor (entity or organization that provides Evergreen related services for a fee) Although "library that is a member of an Evergreen consortium" is included on the list, I notice that an Evergreen consortium is not on the list. As Galen mentioned in a previous e-mail, there are many consortia where members expect the central agency to represent them, and this would be the case for the consortia participating in our project. Looking further down the list, I see "(vi) state library" which I expect would have similar interests to consortia that are running Evergreen. Could (vi) be expanded to include consortia? Or was (iv) intended to cover either a library or a representative from the central agency? Thanks to those on the governance group for putting the work into creating this document! Kathy Lussier ------------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) [email protected] IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier ======================= Amy Terlaga Assistant Director, User Services Bibliomation 32 Crest Road Middlebury , CT 06762 (203)577-4070 x101 http://www.biblio.org ---- Bibliomation's Open Source blog: http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/ Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=171935276419
