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+==== Evergreen International Conference 2009: High-level Information ====
+This wiki is a growing, dynamic tool for attendees of the Evergreen International Conference 2009. The conference also has an [[http://lyrasis.org/evergreen|"official" site]] maintained by LYRASIS where you can register for the conference. **Note: if you run into problems with the conference website registration process, please report them to [[events@evergreen-ils.org]].**
+Consider this wiki a place to add information, learn more about Athens (or share what you know!), find out who's going, find a roommate, sign up to do lightning talks or lead birds-of-a-feather sessions, find a pub crawl or dine-around group, hunt down some good free conference wifi, and much more.
+All conference registrants are invited to edit and create pages in this section of the Evergreen wiki. Please feel free to to [[events@evergreen-ils.org|request an account]].
+==== What is Evergreen? ====
+Evergreen is open source, consortial-quality library automation software. [[http://evergreen-ils.org|Read more about it!]]
+==== Conference Date, Place, Theme, Location, Logo, and Organizers ====
+The first-ever Evergreen International Conference will take place **May 20-22, 2009, at the [[http://www.classiccenter.com/index.php|Classic Center]] in Athens, Georgia.**
+The conference will feature hackfests, lightning talks, formal presentations and panels on three tracks (Admin, Frontline Staff, and Tech), a topic-table breakfast, a Birds of a Feather luncheon, and keynotes from Joe Lucia of Villanova University and noted library technologist and pundit Jessamyn West.
+This conference is jointly produced by [[http://esilibrary.com|Equinox Software Inc.]] ("The Evergreen Experts"), [[http://solinet.net|SOLINET]], and the proud founders of Evergreen, [[http://georgialibraries.org|Georgia Public Library Service]].
+==== Who is this conference for? ====
+Evergreen users, Evergreen developers, open source advocates, people interested in Evergreen, and much more! You will have the chance to meet and interact with a wide variety of people: the original Evergreen developers, representatives from Evergreen libraries, people from libraries considering Evergreen, and much more.
+==== Social Tagging, Bookmarking, Blogging, Recording, Etc. ====
+=== Tagging, Blogging, Tweeting ===
+The all-purpose tag for this conference is **eg09** As the conference approaches, and especially during the conference, watch social networks for these tags and use **eg09** for your own blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, and so forth.
+  * [[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23eg09|Twitter - #eg09 hashtag]]
+  * [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eg09|Flickr photos/video - eg09 tag]]
+=== Recording Sessions ===
+We will offer speakers and presenters a chance to be video-recorded (there will be a recording release form). At this point we are planning on recording five to six events. If you would like to help record a session, or to process recorded sessions, email [[mailto:events@evergreen-ils.org]].