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

[Sarah Childs]

Hi, Kathy.
We had an "emergency" closing of our library this afternoon, and in the
hubbub, I completely forgot about the chat I was signed up for today. I
will plan to join tomorrow's instead.  (It was an issue with our fire
suppression system, which went down, causing the fire alarm to go off. Then
we have to close the building and send everyone home until the system is
back online. Mainly a huge hassle.)

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Kathy Lussier  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sending along a reminder that our next search chat is scheduled to
> begin in the #evergreen IRC channel in 15 minutes.
>
> Our final search chat is scheduled for tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m.
> Pacific.
>
> Thanks!
> Kathy
>
>
> On 03/11/2016 12:35 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If you'll be joining us for our search discussion in about 30 minutes and
>> are unfamiliar with IRC, I want to send along a reminder that Yamil Suarez
>> is in the #evergreen channel right now to help any newcomers become
>> familiar with IRC.
>>
>> You can join us at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evergreen
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Kathy
>>
>> On 03/08/2016 09:44 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Our first discussion starts at in about 15 minutes in the #evergreen IRC
>>> channel.
>>>
>>> For those who will be participating, I have written up some ground rules
>>> for the discussion that are available at
>>> http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=scratchpad:search:focus_groups
>>> .
>>>
>>> Please take a little bit of time to read them over before we begin.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Kathy
>>>
>>> On 03/07/2016 02:01 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
>>>
 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 

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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

I'm sending along a reminder that our next search chat is scheduled to 
begin in the #evergreen IRC channel in 15 minutes.


Our final search chat is scheduled for tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 
p.m. Pacific.


Thanks!
Kathy

On 03/11/2016 12:35 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:

Hi all,

If you'll be joining us for our search discussion in about 30 minutes 
and are unfamiliar with IRC, I want to send along a reminder that 
Yamil Suarez is in the #evergreen channel right now to help any 
newcomers become familiar with IRC.


You can join us at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evergreen

Thanks!
Kathy

On 03/08/2016 09:44 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:

Hi all,

Our first discussion starts at in about 15 minutes in the #evergreen 
IRC channel.


For those who will be participating, I have written up some ground 
rules for the discussion that are available at 
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=scratchpad:search:focus_groups.


Please take a little bit of time to read them over before we begin.

Thanks!
Kathy

On 03/07/2016 02:01 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:

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 

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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

If you'll be joining us for our search discussion in about 30 minutes 
and are unfamiliar with IRC, I want to send along a reminder that Yamil 
Suarez is in the #evergreen channel right now to help any newcomers 
become familiar with IRC.


You can join us at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=evergreen

Thanks!
Kathy

On 03/08/2016 09:44 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:

Hi all,

Our first discussion starts at in about 15 minutes in the #evergreen 
IRC channel.


For those who will be participating, I have written up some ground 
rules for the discussion that are available at 
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=scratchpad:search:focus_groups.


Please take a little bit of time to read them over before we begin.

Thanks!
Kathy

On 03/07/2016 02:01 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:

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 

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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

Our first discussion starts at in about 15 minutes in the #evergreen IRC 
channel.


For those who will be participating, I have written up some ground rules 
for the discussion that are available at 
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=scratchpad:search:focus_groups.


Please take a little bit of time to read them over before we begin.

Thanks!
Kathy

On 03/07/2016 02:01 PM, Kathy Lussier wrote:

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









--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative

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

[Kathy Lussier]

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







--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

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

[Kathy Lussier]

When I say Thursday, March 16, I really mean Wednesday, March 16.

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







--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

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

[Kathy Lussier]

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





--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

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

[Kathy Lussier]

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



--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

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

--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

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

[McCanna, Terran]

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

-- 
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

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

[Kathy Lussier]

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

--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier