The State of

Evergreen Conference 2018

Evergreen Oversight Board

The Software

• 2 Major Releases with the web client
• 70 new features
• 279 Documentation Commits
• 18 bugs fixed as noted in release notes

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Stuff we accomplished

• Hackaway produced 4X the number of commits as an average day
• Held over 30 community meetings for development, governance, documentation, outreach, & more
• Session at ALA Annual and Midwinter
• Participated in “It Takes a Village”, an IMLS grant program to study open source projects hosted by Lyrasis
• Successful annual conference in Covington, KY

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The Community

“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work towards the same goals”

-Idowu Koyenikan

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• 41 Code Contributors
• 27 Documentation Authors

New Contributors and Authors

• Alex Cautley (Catalyte)
• Rogan Hamby (EOLI)
• Skye Howard (Catalyte)
• Linda Jansova
• Jakub Kotrla (The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Sam Link (Greater Clark Hills Regional Library, GA)
• Jeanette Lundgren (CW MARS)
• Andrea Neiman (EOLI)
• Nawras Othman
• Jillianne Presley (Linn-Benton Community College)
• Cesar Velez (EOLI)

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Evergreen Users

Evergreen users span 4 continents.

We have 2000 sites using Evergreen and 900 municipalities and organizations.

69 new libraries including urban high schools, European universities, government agencies and public libraries of all sizes

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2018 Annual Report

The Outreach Committee produces the third annual report.

Available at https://evergreen-ils.org/about-us/annual-reports/

Thank you Outreach Committee

Kathy Lussier, MassLNC, Chair�Ruth Frasur, Hagerstown Library, Evergreen Indiana�Ron Gagnon, NOBLE�Rogan Hamby, Equinox Open Library Initiative�Kris Maas, Maine Balsam Libraries�Meme Marlow, Worch Memorial Library�Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation�

The report was sponsored by

Changing Governance

• Evergreen project becoming its own 503(c)
• Evergreen Organization contracting financial and support services from MOBIUS
• Evergreen Community continues to control Evergreen

Evergreen Oversight Board

Leaving the Board�

• Ruth Frasur, Hagerstown Public Library
• Sharon Herbert, BC Libraries Cooperative
• Tim Spindler, CW MARS

Joining the Board

• Jason Boyer, Evergreen Indiana
• Anna Goben, Evergreen Indiana
• Jessica Woolford, Bibliomation

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Continuing on the Board

• Holly Brennan, Homer Public Library
• Garry Collum, Kenton County Public Library
• Ron Gagnon, NOBLE
• Terran McCanna, PINES (Secretary)
• Mike Rylander, EOLI (Chair)
• Scott Thomas, PaILS (Vice Chair)

Thank You Local Hosts and Organizers

Thanks Everyone for Meeting us in St. Charles

Join us next year hosted by

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in Valley Forge, PA