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- | * Have you ever had funds held by the project, or by any individual | + | * Have you ever had funds held by the project, or by any individual on behalf of the projects? |
- | on behalf of the projects? | + | |
- | funds? | + | |
As was noted above, the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) was awarded the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC), worth $50,000. GPLS invested the funds in hiring technical writers to create documentation for the project. | As was noted above, the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) was awarded the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC), worth $50,000. GPLS invested the funds in hiring technical writers to create documentation for the project. | ||
- | There have been two Evergreen conferences, | + | There have been two Evergreen conferences, |
* Brief history of the project, including past governance decisions. | * Brief history of the project, including past governance decisions. | ||
- | The Evergreen project was created by the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) in 2004 and employed all of the initial developers and systems personnel. GPLS currently holds legal collateral such as the Evergreen trademark and logo and still holds a significant proportion of the copyright over the Evergreen code base. Shortly after the Evergreen International Conference in 2009, Elizabeth McKinney of GPLS announced their attention | + | The Evergreen project was created by the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) in 2004 and employed all of the initial developers and systems personnel. GPLS currently holds legal collateral such as the Evergreen trademark and logo and still holds a significant proportion of the copyright over the Evergreen code base. Shortly after the Evergreen International Conference in 2009, Elizabeth McKinney of GPLS announced their intention |
- | Since the project began focusing on being applicable to libraries outside of GPLS, most project decisions have been made by gaining the informal consensus of interested parties via the mailing lists and/or the IRC channel. This is, for example, how the decision to switch from CVS to Subversion occurred; how bug and enhancement tracking went from a Bugzilla instance to a read-only Trac instance to an open Launchpad instance; and how we have set up conference site selection committees. People who define a problem in the project and offer to provide a solution are generally given whatever power we can give them to achieve their goal. | + | In practice, since the project began focusing on being applicable to libraries outside of GPLS, most project decisions have been made by gaining the informal consensus of interested parties via the mailing lists and/or the IRC channel. This is, for example, how the decision to switch from CVS to Subversion occurred; how bug and enhancement tracking went from a Bugzilla instance to a read-only Trac instance to an open Launchpad instance; and how we have set up conference site selection committees. People who define a problem in the project and offer to provide a solution are generally given whatever power we can give them to achieve their goal. |
At the Evergreen International Conference in 2010, Elizabeth McKinney of GPLS solicited participation from a broad set of representatives to go forward with forming that Evergreen Software Foundation. Many discussions of potential governance models and membership structures have been held since then, and there is overwhelming support to seek a membership within the Software Freedom Conservancy while continuing these discussions. We understand that the Software Freedom Conservancy has experience in setting up governance structures with open source projects, and if the Conservancy accepts our application we would welcome your insight and suggestions. | At the Evergreen International Conference in 2010, Elizabeth McKinney of GPLS solicited participation from a broad set of representatives to go forward with forming that Evergreen Software Foundation. Many discussions of potential governance models and membership structures have been held since then, and there is overwhelming support to seek a membership within the Software Freedom Conservancy while continuing these discussions. We understand that the Software Freedom Conservancy has experience in setting up governance structures with open source projects, and if the Conservancy accepts our application we would welcome your insight and suggestions. | ||
- | * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, | + | * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, |
- | relationships, | + | |
- | have with other organizations. | + | |
Most of the committers to the Evergreen and OpenSRF repositories are or have been employees of Equinox Software, Inc (http:// | Most of the committers to the Evergreen and OpenSRF repositories are or have been employees of Equinox Software, Inc (http:// | ||
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The King County Library system (Issaquah, WA), in partnership with the Galecia Group (Petaluma, CA), won a $1 million IMLS grant in September 2009, entitled “Powered by Open Source.” King County has partnered with six other library systems to provide a peer-to-peer support model for open source libraries. The grant-funded website for their open source project, RSCEL (Resource & Sharing Cooperative of Evergreen Libraries) is at http:// | The King County Library system (Issaquah, WA), in partnership with the Galecia Group (Petaluma, CA), won a $1 million IMLS grant in September 2009, entitled “Powered by Open Source.” King County has partnered with six other library systems to provide a peer-to-peer support model for open source libraries. The grant-funded website for their open source project, RSCEL (Resource & Sharing Cooperative of Evergreen Libraries) is at http:// | ||
- | * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past | + | * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past and present. |
- | and present. | + | |
http:// | http:// | ||
- | * Information about any past for-profit or non-profit organizational | + | * Information about any past for-profit or non-profit organizational affiliations the project has had. |
- | affiliations the project has had. | + | |
+ | In 2006, GPLS contracted the development of the initial SIP 2.0 support (realized in http:// | ||
Evergreen was one of two free software library systems that participated in the Electronic Information For Libraries Free and Open Source Software (eIFL-FOSS) ILS project: http:// | Evergreen was one of two free software library systems that participated in the Electronic Information For Libraries Free and Open Source Software (eIFL-FOSS) ILS project: http:// | ||
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+ | Lyrasis (formerly Solinet) helped organize the 2009 Evergreen International Conference and offered Evergreen training and other services at http:// | ||
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+ | Finally, on the subject of contributing a percentage of our funds to the Conservancy, | ||
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+ | If you have any questions, of course, please feel free to address them to me at dan@coffeecode.net. | ||
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+ | Many thanks, | ||
+ | Dan Scott |
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