One of the major goals of the IMLS grant is the creation of resources that allow us to collaborate on new development. 

The purpose of RSCEL is as much about creating a thriving development community as it is creating a collaborative user community.  The one won't really go anywhere without the other.

So we have an RFP hitting the street in the next couple of weeks, on behalf of the grant, to develop a shared enhancement database where we can

• Enter new software and enhancement ideas
• Review them as a community
• Endorse or modify
• Prioritize
• Offer to contribute toward cost-sharing
• Convert the ideas into a specification format that a developer can easily work from
• Publish requests to the development community
• Track request progress

There are already a couple of new enhancement ideas out there percolating.  We posted about the Grand Rapids RFID idea earlier in the week.  Bibliomation is leading a collaborative effort on an enhancement for a kids catalog.  (See the Bibliomation open-source blog link below).

http://biblio-os.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00...

KCLS and Bibliomation are working together on the Enhancement Database, and will be presenting a program on this topic at the upcoming Evergreen conference in Grand Rapids.  Presenting with us will be Lori Ayre, an IMLS grant principal and our partner with the Galecia Group.

We'll post a copy of the RFP here when it is ready for public consumption.

In the meantime, hop on RSCEL and post about Evergreen enhancement ideas that are surely weighing on your mind!