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Jan 17, 2010continue reading
Thomas Krichel of Palmer School of Library and Information Science has developed, and is sharing, course material for an intensive course he developed in which students, without any previous system admininstration experience, installed debian, and then installed Koha.
http://openlib.org/home/krichel/courses/lis508p10w/
All 17 of his students were successful...wanna give it a go?
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Jan 3, 2010continue reading
If you're a new developer that wants to obtain more in-depth knowledge of Evergreen, this is a great place to start:
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Dec 31, 2009continue reading
Califa, in partnership with InfoPeople, is pleased to be presenting The Edgy Librarian, an online web conference held on January 20, 2010, featuring many of the new technologies being used in libraries, and show-and-tell sessions from libraries using those new services! Registration information is below, and the sessions are as follows (all times are in Pacific Time Zone):
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Nov 16, 2009continue reading
The OLE Final Report is out and it begins with a "research scenario" that OLE is striving to support. In other words, the library software they are planning to develop (in the next phase which is code named the Kuali OLE Project) could make the following scenario a reality...
An economist is conducting research on the housing market financial collapse.
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Nov 9, 2009continue reading
In Mark Leggott's lengthy response to Stephen Abram's article, he challenges many of Abram's claims and does so from his own relevant experience: Leggott is from the University of Prince Edward Island which migrated off SirsiDynix Unicorn to Evergreen.
The following four issues (fears) often come up for people when they first start looking into an OSLS (open source library system):
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Nov 5, 2009
There's been a lot of chatter in libraryland and now even in the open source community outside of libraryland about a SirsiDynix article written by Stephen Abram. The article had been released over the last few months to a few select SirsiDynix customers but was leaked around Halloween.
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Oct 21, 2009continue reading
"BibLibre wants to push libraries who call us to do development work, for Koha or any other piece of software, to write in the RFP itself or the contract that all the code produced will both: have an open source license; and be accessible on a public repository."
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Oct 5, 2009continue reading
Dan Scott is offering an Evergreen Developer Basics Workshop at the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) being held in Toronto on October 29th, 2009.
Here's the workshop description:
Over the past year, Evergreen has been adopted by a number of libraries in Ontario.
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Sep 21, 2009continue reading
If you are trying to make sense of what is going on with Liblime and Koha. This is the article for you (by Kathryn Greenhill at her blog Libraries Matter Librarians Matter):
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Sep 17, 2009continue reading
The Equinox Promise: An Open Letter to the Evergreen Community
We at Equinox Software feel it is timely to share an evolving document we call the Equinox Promise.
We invite engagement and feedback from everyone, and encourage other vendors to come up with similar statements, or join in on ours.
The Equinox Promise
In 2007, Equinox Software was founded by a group of dedicated people who believe that open source software offers libraries unheralded opportunities to engage in the process of designing the tools they use.
A software company can never speak for the open source communi