Ever wondered where the logs from the Evergreen IRC channel live?  Well, I just found them.  Here they are:

http://open-ils.org/irc_logs/evergreen

Seems like printer problems often come up on the Evergreen mailing list so I thought I'd pull out this little exchange that seems to solve the problems with at least one printer, the SP200. May be be relevant to Evergreen 1.6 only but if you have an SP200, you'll probably want to check out this quick fix!

Hello,
Is anyone printing to a Star SP200 receipt printer using Evergreen 2.1? If you can print successfully to the SP200 from Evergreen can you tell me the driver you are using? We have tried the sp212 driver but have not had success.The printer uses a USB connection.

Good news for all Evergreen Users!

The Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project as its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects.

Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians, developers, and documenters, are excited to announce that Evergreen is now a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

By joining the Conservancy, Evergreen obtains the benefits of a formal non-profit organizational structure while keeping the project focused on software development and documentation. Some benefits of joining the Conservancy include the ability to collect donations, hold assets on behalf of the project, and some protection of the lead developers of the project from personal liability when engaging in the activities of the project.

Marshall Breeding has published the results of his ILS satisfaction survey, Perceptions 2010.  

This year two open source ILS products earned top marks. OPALS, targeting K-12 school libraries and Koha when supported by ByWater Solutions.

 Marshall Breeding announced the results of his 2010 ILS Survey and two of the big winners in this year's report are Koha and Evergreen.  And, interestingly, the big loser was none other than SirsiDynix.  

Grace Dunbar of Equinox recently posted a note to the Documentation List a link to the first draft of Release Notes for 2.0.

They are available here:  http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=feature_list_2_0

I tried to update the KCLS Requirements to reflect those that made it in 2.0 but I only got as far as the circulation requirements!  Some are clearly the same requirements and others have changed a bit so it was a bit hard to match.  

Lots of great, new features in 2.0!!!  If you want to try it out, the source code is available here:  http://www.open-ils.org/downloads.php.  Currently on alpha 5 release.  Beta will be next!

Other people have struggled with how to get fines and fees into Evergreen from their old system.  So I thought many would benefit from seeing how KCLS handled fines and fees in their migration from Millennium to Evergreen.

This is the headline for a short snippet by a LJ blogger:  King County Goes Live with Customized Evergreen ILS.

Now why would he say that?  Makes me a tad cranky that they make it sound like KCLS is off on their own unique version of Evergreen when nothing could be farther from the truth.  So, I submitted this comment to that blog post:

Did you know that there is an Evergreen committee that was formed at the last Evergreen Conference that has been working on developing a foundation (or other kind of entity) for the purposes of protecting Evergreen assets?  Well, there is.  It's called the Governance Committee and I'm one of the members so I wanted to make sure you knew what is happening and to give you a chance to provide feedback to the committee on what they (we) are doing.

Two important activities are in the works.

In keeping with my migration metaphor - that it's more like the tide coming in than switching on the light - we are now in the second wave.  The punch list is not short but there are no big, scary show stoppers on it.  And honestly, the expectation is that the punch list will continue to expand and contract over the next several weeks and maybe even months.  And then after that, there will be new development projects underway. Okay, let's be honest, I'm sure the development projects will be ongoing for the foreseeable future.  And that's totally awesome.