Hi all,
If you are participating in the search discussions, but aren't entirely
comfortable with IRC, Yamil Suarez will be hosting IRC practice times in
the #evergreen IRC channel in the half-hour preceding the March 8, March
11, and March 16 discussions. If you want to spend a little time
practicing IRC before the discussions, feel free to join us early. The
easiest way to join the session is through the the Evergreen IRC web
gateway at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evergreen.
Also, I'm sending along a reminder to let us know which discussion you
will be joining by signing up at http://doodle.com/poll/62g2nmkszddx4iee
. We have lots of space in next week's session on March 15 and 16.
Thank you!
Kathy
On 03/03/2016 09:43 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
Apologies for the delay in getting this out. We had 19 people who
participated in the poll, and it was much more difficult to find chat
times that would work for everyone than I thought it would be. It
looks like we can accommodate everyone's schedule if we schedule two
chats next week and two chats the following week.
The dates will be:
Tuesday, March 8 at 10 a.m. Eastern, 7 a.m. Pacific
Friday, March 11 at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific
Tuesday, March 15 at 3 p.m. Eastern 12 p.m. Pacific
Thursday, March 16 at 3 p.m. Eastern 12 p.m. Pacific
I'm going to ask everyone to fill out one more poll (sorry!)
http://doodle.com/poll/62g2nmkszddx4iee
Please pick the discussion that you plan to attend. You aren't bound
to whatever choice you make. If things come up and you need to drop in
on another session, that's fine. And, of course, there are people in
IRC at all hours of the day who might chime in as the discussion is
happening.
However, in the interest of keeping the discussion focused while also
hearing multiple viewpoints, I think we want to strive for 5 - 10
people participating in each chat. If several time slots work for you,
and you see one has fewer participants than the others, please go with
the one with fewer participants so we can have balanced attendance
along all of the chat sessions.
If you didn't fill out the first poll, you're certainly welcome to
sign up for any of these time slots.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
Kathy
On 02/29/2016 04:26 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sending out a reminder to fill out the Doodle poll at
http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr if you are interested in
talking about search in Evergreen. I'm going to set some dates tomorrow.
Kathy
On 02/19/2016 05:54 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
During the dev hack-a-way in November, we had a discussion regarding
Evergreen search. The discussion happened at the request of MassLNC
after we had some local discussions regarding what our overall goals
for Evergreen search are. We view search as one of the most
important pieces of the ILS, if not the most important. It's what
allows our users to find those resources we spend so much time
cataloging so that they can then place holds on them, check them out
from the library, or access them in some other way.
I left the hack-a-way with an action item to start a larger
community discussion where we could identify some high-level goals
for what we want Evergreen search to be and where we could define
what we consider to be important factors in search relevance.
I would like to start this discussion with some focus-group-like
discussions in IRC where community members could identify the
features they like about the current search and where they see room
for improvement. My hope is that these discussions can help us
define what we consider to be an ideal search system for Evergreen
and allow the dev community to explore options for making that ideal
search system happen.
I think the discussions will work best if they are not too large, so
I anticipate scheduling two or three or more depending on interest.
If you are interested in participating, please fill out the Doodle
at http://doodle.com/poll/hkdy3u5255u3rpmr. I'll try my best to
schedule these discussions so that anyone who shows interest through
the Doodle poll has a chance to participate.
I have also talked to Yamil Suarez about scheduling some "Intro to
IRC" sessions ahead of time so that people who are unfamiliar with
IRC have a chance to learn about it before the scheduled search
discussions.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
Kathy
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Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
[email protected]
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
