On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Domain Name:OSS4LIB.ORG
Created On:17-Nov-1999 23:05:50 UTC
That's just the domain. The site, and the list, went online in
roughly February 1999, based at yale. Wayback found out about it in
april:
My take: the projects are increasingly international, and now affect all
aspects of library services, at least somewhere. I’m currently analysing my
survey results (you may have received the invitation to participate last year),
and I received responses from people in 33 countries, naming 43
This might be a good time to reflect upon where we've been and where we're
headed. Almost exactly ten years have passed, I think, since open source
software in libraries became self-aware as a movement. Sure, there has always
been open source software, but I would mark the real start as when
At first I was thinking only ten years? Really? But then I realized that
you were talking about true library open source software (as opposed to
librarians involved with open source projects, which clearly predated 1999),
and that it was when the movement became self-aware. So then I became
