Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] May 2012 Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition
Excellent Amy! Thanks for pulling all this together and for doing it so promptly! I'm still not caught up from being away! As I read this, I realized there was probably lots more that people might want to contribute to the collected stories about the conference. Can we add this as a blog post and invite comments there and here? Lori On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Amy Terlaga terl...@biblio.org wrote: Hello, friends – here is our May Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition ** ** Amy ** ** May 2012 Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition ** ** Two-hundred-and-seventy-one members of the Evergreen community convened in Indianapolis during the last week of April for our fourth annual Evergreen International Conference. This was a sizable increase from last year’s number of 180 attendees. Our community continues to grow up and out, with representatives from Mexico, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, Wales, and the U.S. in attendance. ** ** Jim Corridan, Shauna Borger and their crew from the Indiana State Library kept us all busy, informed, and entertained during the four days of the conference. Here are some of the highlights: ** ** Hackfest / Interest Group Day (Wednesday) ** ** The Wednesday Developer Hackfest proved to be very fruitful. A number of projects were tackled including making Syndetics content appear in TPAC and a Mexican-Spanish translation of the catalog. Dan Scott showed the others how to sign off on patch contributions, too. ** ** The Documentation Interest Group (DIG) meeting was led by *Yamil Suarez*of Berkeley College of Music in Boston. DIG is looking for proof-readers to review the documentation that has been approved for the website. If interested, you can email documentat...@evergreen-ils.org. ** ** IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Reports Interest Group, by Jenny Turner, PALS Over 30 individuals interested in reports in Evergreen met ; attendees were from a variety of libraries with various experience using Evergreen's reports interface. Meeting attendees broke into groups according to interest. Jenny Turner (PALS) convened a QA session for Evergreen Reports newbies and investigators. Jessica Venturo (Bibliomation) lead a group that discussed staff client report ideas, new features in 2.2, and brainstormed items to add to the Taskforce's wish listshttp://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:taskforce_wish_lists. Amy Terlaga (Bibliomation) met with current and interested SQL reporters to share ideas on how this form of reporting may be used. Following the small group meetings, Darrell Rodgers of Emerald Data Systems shared wireframes of development his company intends to do for GPLS to create a user-friendly interface for management-level reporting. These wireframes are now available on the Evergreen website: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:reports_wireframes. Notes from the Reports Interest Group's meeting will be made available on the Reports Taskforce's website in the near future. Watch the Evergreen Generalhttp://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-generaland Reportshttp://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-reportsmailing lists for news about our upcoming meeting - all are welcome! Interested in learning more about our work? Contact Jenny Turner at repo...@evergreen-ils.org. ** ** Conference Opening Remarks: The State of Evergreen (Thursday) ** ** IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The State of Evergreen, by Tara Robertson, Systems and Technical Services Librarian, Emily Carr University of Art + Design I was asked to participate in The State of Evergreen because of the unsung heroes project. I loved the series of blog posts that Chris Cormack has been doing to highlight Koha community members and adapted his idea for the Evergreen community. I learned two things. First, people were reluctant to promote themselves and write bios listing all their accomplishments. I shouldn’t have been surprised by this. It was more effective to ask someone’s coworker, colleague or boss to highlight their contributions. I like that our community values humility, but know that most people enjoy being recognized for work that they are proud of. Second, some people felt that the work that they did was insignificant and not worthy of being recognized. Almost all of these people were women who had been nominated by other people in the community. After an email or two all of these people agreed to be profiled. I want to help foster a culture where we recognize and value all sorts of contributions that are key to making the community strong, sustainable and an enjoyable place to be. What do you want this community to look like? Why do you put your time and energy into making Evergreen better? ** ** User Programs (Thursday and Friday) The user programs
[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] May 2012 Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition
Hello, friends - here is our May Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition Amy May 2012 Evergreen Newsletter: Conference Edition Two-hundred-and-seventy-one members of the Evergreen community convened in Indianapolis during the last week of April for our fourth annual Evergreen International Conference. This was a sizable increase from last year's number of 180 attendees. Our community continues to grow up and out, with representatives from Mexico, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, Wales, and the U.S. in attendance. Jim Corridan, Shauna Borger and their crew from the Indiana State Library kept us all busy, informed, and entertained during the four days of the conference. Here are some of the highlights: Hackfest / Interest Group Day (Wednesday) The Wednesday Developer Hackfest proved to be very fruitful. A number of projects were tackled including making Syndetics content appear in TPAC and a Mexican-Spanish translation of the catalog. Dan Scott showed the others how to sign off on patch contributions, too. The Documentation Interest Group (DIG) meeting was led by Yamil Suarez of Berkeley College of Music in Boston. DIG is looking for proof-readers to review the documentation that has been approved for the website. If interested, you can email documentat...@evergreen-ils.org. IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Reports Interest Group, by Jenny Turner, PALS Over 30 individuals interested in reports in Evergreen met ; attendees were from a variety of libraries with various experience using Evergreen's reports interface. Meeting attendees broke into groups according to interest. Jenny Turner (PALS) convened a QA session for Evergreen Reports newbies and investigators. Jessica Venturo (Bibliomation) lead a group that discussed staff client report ideas, new features in 2.2, and brainstormed items to add to the Taskforce's wish lists http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:taskforce_wish_l ists . Amy Terlaga (Bibliomation) met with current and interested SQL reporters to share ideas on how this form of reporting may be used. Following the small group meetings, Darrell Rodgers of Emerald Data Systems shared wireframes of development his company intends to do for GPLS to create a user-friendly interface for management-level reporting. These wireframes are now available on the Evergreen website: http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-reports:reports_wire frames. Notes from the Reports Interest Group's meeting will be made available on the Reports Taskforce's website in the near future. Watch the Evergreen General http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general and Reports http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-reports mailing lists for news about our upcoming meeting - all are welcome! Interested in learning more about our work? Contact Jenny Turner at repo...@evergreen-ils.org. Conference Opening Remarks: The State of Evergreen (Thursday) IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The State of Evergreen, by Tara Robertson, Systems and Technical Services Librarian, Emily Carr University of Art + Design I was asked to participate in The State of Evergreen because of the unsung heroes project. I loved the series of blog posts that Chris Cormack has been doing to highlight Koha community members and adapted his idea for the Evergreen community. I learned two things. First, people were reluctant to promote themselves and write bios listing all their accomplishments. I shouldn't have been surprised by this. It was more effective to ask someone's coworker, colleague or boss to highlight their contributions. I like that our community values humility, but know that most people enjoy being recognized for work that they are proud of. Second, some people felt that the work that they did was insignificant and not worthy of being recognized. Almost all of these people were women who had been nominated by other people in the community. After an email or two all of these people agreed to be profiled. I want to help foster a culture where we recognize and value all sorts of contributions that are key to making the community strong, sustainable and an enjoyable place to be. What do you want this community to look like? Why do you put your time and energy into making Evergreen better? User Programs (Thursday and Friday) The user programs were varied, covering a wide range of topics - everything from Evergreen Basics for newbies to the nitty gritty of circulation rules settings with Down the Rabbit Hole: In-Database Approach For Circulation/Hold Policy Configuration. Tony Bandy of OHIONET had this to say about the Template Toolkit OPAC Customizations: Nuts and Bolts program on Friday: Learning about the Template Toolkit OPAC and all of the coming options for our consortium, (COOL, http://www.cool-cat.org), I'm excited about the many changes on the way. IN THE SPOTLIGHT: PROGRAM - Resource Sharing in Evergreen Grace
