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[email protected] 610-519-4158 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anoop Atre Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:25 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Cc: Dan Scott Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy Dan, That's great news! Many thanks to you & everyone else involved who put in the time and effort to make this happen. Cheers On 06/16/2011 09:25 AM, Dan Scott wrote: > 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. The project homepage is > http://evergreen-ils.org/. -- Anoop Atre IS Developer & Integrator, MnPALS PH: 507.389.5060 OF: 3022 Memorial Library (Office-ML 3022) -- "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens" ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
