Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Chinese version of EG Re: IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

[Faith Chao]

Thanks so much. We will look into it.
Faith

From: Jason Etheridge <ja...@esilibrary.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 8:36 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group; Faith Chao
Subject: Chinese version of EG Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on 
Evergreen search

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Faith Chao <fc...@ggu.edu> wrote:
> Dear All,
> Is there anyone who is working on a Chinese version of Evergreen? We are a 
> non profit organization (also named Evergreen) supporting a number of rural 
> libraries in rural China and are in need of finding a good workable software 
> like Evergreen.
> Thanks,
> Faith Chao
> President,
> Evergreen Education Foundation

Hi Faith, there was effort in the past to translate EG to Chinese, but
I believe it languished.  See:

http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:customizations:chinese

It may be worth reaching out to Jason Zou and Grace Liu.  The good
news is that Evergreen was built with internationalization in mind,
but we don't know what we don't know, and a good bit of effort would
probably be needed to make it shine with Chinese.  It may be worth it,
though, if you'd like to help jump start that effort.  That's one of
the beautiful things about open source software and communities, that
you can get stuff done.

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Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

[Faith Chao]

Dear All,
Is there anyone who is working on a Chinese version of Evergreen? We are a non 
profit organization (also named Evergreen) supporting a number of rural 
libraries in rural China and are in need of finding a good workable software 
like Evergreen.
Thanks,
Faith Chao
President,
Evergreen Education Foundation 

From: Open-ils-general <open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org> on 
behalf of McCanna, Terran <tmcca...@georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 7:07 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

Thank you for coordinating this, Kathy!!!


Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmcca...@georgialibraries.org
- Original Message -
From: "Kathy Lussier" <kluss...@masslnc.org>
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 5:54:11 PM
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] IRC Discussions on Evergreen search

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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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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