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 [[http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/2009/10/evergreen-demonstration-massachusetts.html|Friday, December 11, 2009  How's It Going?: An Inside Look at Bibliomation's Migration to Evergreen 9:30 coffee, 10:00-noon meeting Middlebury PL]]: Online Registration coming soon at www.ctlibrarians.org.
+The **2010 Evergreen International Conference** will be held April 21-23, 2010 at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids Michigan. The Conference website contains general information, schedule, exhibitor information, sponsorship information, a link to the Grand Rapids Convention and Visitors Bureau, a link to the Amway for online reservations, and a link to the registration site.  Please join us for an exciting 3 days of  learning, sharing, networking, and fun in Grand Rapids!  [[http://www.evergreen2010.org/|http://www.evergreen2010.org/]]
 ===== Evergreen Development and Documentation Update =====
-  * LibraryThing for Libraries is now available for Evergreen. As announced by LibraryThing, "We've integrated both the Catalog Enhancements (tags, tag browser, recommendations, other editions and translations) and the Reviews Enhancement (300,000 LibraryThing reviews, patron reviewing, Facebook app, blog widgets)."
+  * LibraryThing for Libraries is now available for Evergreen. As stated in the announcement from LibraryThing, "We've integrated both the Catalog Enhancements (tags, tag browser, recommendations, other editions and translations) and the Reviews Enhancement (300,000 LibraryThing reviews, patron reviewing, Facebook app, blog widgets)."
-    *For more information, check out [[http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2009/09/ltfl-now-available-for-evergreen.php | the original announcement on the LibraryThing Blog]] and see it in action on the [[http://catalog.kentcountylibrary.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=46595&d=0&hc=1&adv=0375400117&rt=isbn | Kent County Public Library's catalogue]].
+    * For more information, check out [[http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2009/09/ltfl-now-available-for-evergreen.php | the original announcement on the LibraryThing Blog]] and see it in action on the [[http://catalog.kentcountylibrary.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=46595&d=0&hc=1&adv=0375400117&rt=isbn | Kent County Public Library's catalogue]].
-  * First Developer Meeting on IRC on October 16, 2009.
+  * The first Developer Meeting on IRC took place on October 16, 2009. All members of the community with an interest in contributing to the development of Evergreen were invited to attend and attendence on the #evergreen hit 53 participants at its peak. The priority item, the upcoming 1.6 release, was the top item on the agenda, and other issues, such as lowering the barriers to participation, quality assurance, and future developments were also tackled. All in all, it was a very productive first meeting and future ones are planned. If you missed it, meeting notes are now available online.
-    * [[http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=270 | Announcement]]
+    * [[http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=270 | The origianl announcement]]
-    * [[http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=276 | Stats]]
+    * [[http://evergreen-ils.org/blog/?p=276 | Stats for the meeting]]
     * [[http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:meetings | Agenda and Meeting Notes]]
-  * Dan Scott giving an Evergreen Developer Workshop and Presentation at [[http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2009/ | FSOSS 2009]] in Toronto, ON, Canada.
+  * Dan Scott gave an Evergreen Developer Workshop and Presentation at [[http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2009/ | FSOSS 2009]] in Toronto, ON, Canada at the end of October. Dan has made his tutorial available online, both as a [[http://evergreen-ils.org/~denials/workshop.html | web page]] and as [[http://evergreen-ils.org/~denials/workshop.tar.gz | a tarball]] containing the notes from the web page, presentation slides, and code samples used during the presentation. These resources are very valuable for new Evergreen developers and will evolve as Dan incorporates feedback. Dan also notes that he'll be offering an extended version of this workshop at OLA 2010 next February.
-  * Video of Mike Rylander's talk at [[http://vre2.upei.ca/access2009/program | Access 2009]] in P.E.I. is [[http://hosting2.epresence.tv/UPEI/1/watch/74.aspx | available online]].
+  * The very popular Access 2009 conference took place in Prince Edward Island, Canada at the start of October. Equinox's Mike Rylander gave a tag-team presentation with Roy Tennant of OCLC called "ILS in the Sky with Diamonds." Mike talked about cloud computer in general, Evergreen's Service Oriented Architecture, and how Evergreen can be used in Software as a Service (Saas) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) setups. A video talk is [[http://hosting2.epresence.tv/UPEI/1/watch/74.aspx | available online at the Access 2009 website]].
   * The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group (DIG) had their monthly meeting on October 21st and discussed, among other things, licensing issues for documentation, how to organize the documentation being written, how best to help volunteers learn DocBook, and the progress being made so far.  Anyone interested can listen to [[http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig_meetings|recordings of past meetings]] online.
     * To learn more about DIG, please visit our [[http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig|wiki page]]. We're always looking for people interested in helping out with our documentation efforts, whether by writing new documentation, testing and editing existing documentation, converting documentation to DocBook format, or any number of other essential tasks both big and small.  If you think you might be interested in helping out, contact the DIG facilitators at **docs@evergreen-ils.org**.
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 ===== Lyrasis Evergreen Classes =====
-Lyrasis is offering two Evergreen classes in the near future:
+Lyrasis is offering one Evergreen class in the near future:
-Evergreen Acquisitions Module (Live Online)
-/11/2009 and 11/12/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST
 Evergreen Administration and Statistics Module (Live Online)
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 ===== New Evergreen Libraries: Welcome Aboard! =====
   * [[http://evergreen.lib.in.us/ |Evergreen Indiana]]
-    * [[http://evergreen.lib.in.us/ |Jay County Public Library]] migrated to Evergreen October 8, 2009.
+    *  On October 7, Roachdale-Franklin Township public library (previously non-automated) migrated to Evergreen. On October 8 and October 29, Jay County Public Library and Westfield Washington Public Library, respectively, migrated to Evergreen. These three migrations bring to 43 the number of [[http://evergreen.lib.in.us/ |Indiana libraries online]] with Evergreen. These 43 libraries serve over 480,000 Indiana residents and provide a shared resource catalog holding over 2.7 million items. The Evergreen Indiana consortium has 69 members.
   * [[http://sclends.lib.sc.us/ |SC LENDS]]
     * [[http://sclends.lib.sc.us/ |Calhoun Public Library]] went live on Oct 15, 2009.