Welcome (General Session)

Welcome (General Session) Thursday, April 26, 2012

 Welcome o Jim Corridan . Thank you to the members of the local and international community who contributed their time to planning the 2012 conference including the following members of the program committee: Kelly Ehinger, Ben Shum, Ben Hyman, Jason Boyer, John Craig, Kay Martin, Lynn Mehringer, Emily Schaber, Shae Tetterton, Tim Daniels and Jennifer Turner . At this year’s conference we have 303 attendees registered, up from 180 last year. I guess everyone wanted to see what was left of the city after they took down the Super Bowl zip line. o Governor’s Office  Housekeeping [Jim] o Review day’s schedule . Changes for today  Acquisitions in Evergreen Indiana which was scheduled for 3 o’clock today has been moved to tomorrow at 1 p.m.  In its place will be Alphabet Soup: RDA, FRBR, and the Future of Evergreen in Regency C today starting at 3 o’clock . Changes for Saturday?  The International Governance Board session on Saturday Morning will begin at 8am rather than 9 a.m. as listed on the program.  Continental breakfast will still be served starting at 8 a.m.

o Room locations [Map in program] o Lunch on your own [Map and list of restaurants] o LEU form [blue handout in packet] o The Governance Board meets today at 4pm in Concept AD across the bridge on this level. o Don't forget to sign up for the lightening talks at the registration table.

1 o On Saturday we’ll have an Acquisitions and Serials Discussion and working group. Sign up for at the registration table for a 5-10 minute slot to discuss your experience with these modules. o At 6:30, there will be a walking tour of downtown Indianapolis, featuring many historic buildings, but sorry, no zip line this time. o Have more questions? See staff at registration desk outside this room or anyone wearing a Volunteer ribbon.

 State of Evergreen o Opening Slide: The State of the Evergreen Community

. Grace D.: Opens with a 8 minute history of Evergreen, recap of the past

year, and call to connect with one another personally in order to strengthen

the community [8 minutes]

o Second slide: Evergreen World Map

. Dan S.: Development community. [5 minutes]

. Kathy L.: Consortia and their contributions. [5 minutes]

. Ben H.: International library growth and contributions. [5 minutes]

o All the rest of the slides - Unsung Heroes

. Tara R.: Small library adoption and contributions - and ends by

referencing the Unsung Heroes and reiterates the call to connect

personally. [7 minutes]  Keynote Introduction: Jono Bacon [Jim]

Our keynote speaker today is Jono Bacon. “Jono,” I am told this is pronounced like “Bono”, but with a J at the beginning. Jono is a nationally recognized community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author. Currently, he works as the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, growing and inspiring the global Ubuntu community. In 1983 he launched the free software movement and started the development of the Ubuntu operating system, a free operating system which is freely available to use, copy and redistribute. His software is currently in use on tens of millions of computers today.

For his work in this field, Jono has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award, and a 10 meter swimming badge and several honorary doctorates from the University of Wolverhampton.

Jono Bacon is a prominent author and speaker on community management and best practice, most recently The Art of Community, which he has promised not to promote too heavily in today’s presentation. He swears to me that his talks are not technical. In fact, he claims that they really aren’t talks at all. In fact, his presentations are often considered beautiful pieces of performance art using the medium of dance.

So here, without any further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce Jono Bacon to kick off our conference by sharing his passion for open source software and his experience in working with open source communities around the world.

3 Welcome (General Session) Friday, April 27, 2012

 Welcome o Jim Corridan  Housekeeping [Jim] o Review day’s schedule . Changes for today  The session on Acquisitions in Evergreen Indiana will be held in Regency C today starting at 1 o’clock, which was switched yesterday with Alphabet Soup: RDA, FRBR and the Future of Evergreen due to a scheduling conflict. . Changes for Saturday?  The International Governance Board session tomorrow will begin at 8am rather than 9 a.m. as listed on the program.  This includes the continental breakfast will still be served starting at 8 a.m. o Room locations [Map in program] o Lunch on your own [Map and list of restaurants] o LEU form [Blue form in packet] o I want to remind you that tomorrow; we will have the Acquisitions and Serials discussion in this room starting at 10:30, and don’t forget to sign up at the registration desk for this afternoon’s lightening talks and the Acquisitions and Serials discussion on Saturday. o For the Indiana contingent, I need to remind you that the Evergreen Indiana Membership Meeting will be held in the Indiana History room of the state library starting at 11:30. o Tonight, at 5 o’clock, we hope that you will all join us for a reception in the great hall of the Indiana State Library. The state library is located just two blocks from here, and our 1934 building is a nationally recognized classic Art Deco structure. The State library is marked on your maps (on this color paper) and ISL staff will be in the lobby at 4:45 to walk groups to through the State Capitol and to the State Library. o After the reception, you have an evening free to see go a play, continue networking with your counterparts, or hopefully, you will join us on a pub crawl of some of our city’s hotspots. o As always, there will be someone available at the registration desk if you need help or direction.

5  Keynote Introduction: Galadriel Chilton

Our keynote speaker today is Galadriel Chilton

Galadriel is the Electronic Resource Management Librarian at University of Connecticut, where she co-designed and supported an open source electronic resource management system called ERMes, that used by more than 50 institutions from around the world, such as the Loyola University Health Science Library, seven campuses of the University of Wisconsin, The Irish Research eLibrary and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.

Galadriel is a strong believer in and advocate for open source in general, and especially open source for libraries. She joins us today to offer an evolutionary biologist’s study of the importance of open source projects for animal survival. The habitat she is discussing, of course, is libraries and the species which inhabits there are librarians and library staff.

In this day and age, for libraries at least, the survival of the fittest is a very real battle, so please join me in welcoming Galadriel Chilton to hear how we can not just survive, but actually thrive thanks to open source systems like Evergreen.

# # # Welcome (General Session) Saturday, April 28, 2012

 Welcome o Jim Corridan  Housekeeping [Jim] o Review day’s schedule . Changes for Today?  Remember, that the International Governance Board session begins now rather than 9 a.m. as listed on the program. o Thank you for coming, and thank you for making this year’s conference successful. o Next year we will see you in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 10- April 13 2013.