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Discover key insights from the State of Evergreen report for Q2 2011! Learn about the growth in the Evergreen ecosystem, more libraries joining, and opportunities for development. Find out what's working well and where improvements are needed.
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The State of EvergreenQ2 2011 [tables slightly revised]
Summary of the SoE, 2011 • Lots of good news • And some places that need work
Themes: • Spread of Evergreen • Critical mass • Scale • Community
Evergreen ecosystem • Growth in the community • More libraries • And more hands do make lighter work • More nodes • More types of nodes • More support options Commercial and non-commercial • Superconsortial evolution
EGMaps! • http://www.molyneux.com/EGmaps/
Stirling and East Dunbartonshire Councils choose Evergreen open source library management system February 16th, 2011
OTOH • This month Evergreen had its first library migrate from Evergreen to another ILS • We need Evergreen developers and we do not have a predictable means to develop/find them • IMHO, the current weakest link
Conclusions • We have reached critical mass in most areas • The day when basic functionality is lacking is fast upon us. • The areas where we will see FUD are narrower • The dream of what open source development can do is being realized
Now what? I believe our speed of development will be hard to match—the open source model works well in libraries What will we do? What can we do?