Hi again, My goal is to profile at least 50 community members in a slideshow at the Evergreen Indiana conference. Right now I have 2.
I know people are reluctant to raise their hand and say that they are awesome. Also people tend to downplay their own contributions. I'd really like to profile a wide variety of people who make a wide variety of contributions. So, if you can ask an awesome colleague or community member if you can profile them that would be a huge help. To keep things simple I'd like to license this content under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Let me know if you have a problem with this, I suspect that the biggest issue will be with the photos. I want to be clear about how we can use this content as we'd like to do something creative with it for the Evergreen 2013 conference in Vancouver. This information is also on my blog: http://www.tararobertson.ca/evergreen-unsung-heros-an-invitation-to-participate/ Cheers, Tara ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tara Robertson <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM Subject: Evergreen community unsung heroes: an invitation to participate To: Evergreen Discussion Group <[email protected]> Hello, I'm so excited about the Evergreen community. There are a lot of smart people who work hard and do really excellent work. I've really enjoyed Chris Cormack's blog posts about the unsung heroes in the Koha community: http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/tag/unsung-heroes/ I really appreciate the hard work that the core developers do. I also appreciate all the other people who do work in this community. It's inspiring to see people working on documentation, translation/internationalization, governance, testing, submitting bugs, teaching Evergreen in library school and library tech programs, doing design work and contributing in other ways to make the software better and the community more stable and functional. It's really exciting to see where Evergreen libraries have sprung up: it takes guts to be the first one in your country to migrate to Evergreen, or to be one of the new Evergreen libraries in a specific sector (government, K-12, corporate, etc.). I want to create a slideshow showing lots of awesome people in our community. Please send me: - a photo of the person (print quality if possible) - their email address (I want to get permission from the person profiled) - city, state/province/whatever - library name - information about how they contribute to the community, in less than 100 words You are also welcome to submit information about yourself--please don't be shy. The Evergreen International Conference organizers in Indiana have agreed to show this slideshow (Thanks Shauna). I'm part of the organizing team for the Vancouver conference and we'd like to build on this--perhaps with a longer slideshow, posters, or perhaps an ebook. The deadline is Friday, March 16th. Cheers, Tara
