I haven't looked at the Equinox website but if you have a page lusting your Evergreen services that we could link to that's all the web team would need, not a link back from there.
Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis > On Sep 8, 2014, at 9:23 PM, "W. Brad LaJeunesse" <b...@esilibrary.com> wrote: > > Speaking as one of the vendors, I don't see a link back requirement as a > burden, but rather it seems a simple reciprocal gesture. It seems totally > reasonable to me. It's not like you're asking us to cut down the largest tree > in the forest with a herring. [1] > > I couldn't remember, so I just took a look at our website, and while we don't > have a link back from any of our "services" pages, we do have a link back > from our dedicated Evergreen page. We support multiple open source products, > and our services are at least very similar across all of them, so we created > a page for each open source community (that don't mention our services, > actually) and link back to each community website from there. > > So, there are some changes required on our website in order to fully comply > with this proposal (as I read it, at least), but we're fine with that. > > Thanks for asking for input. > > [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DopGxUAoAY > > -- > W. Brad LaJeunesse > | President > | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: b...@esilibrary.com > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Kathy Lussier <kluss...@masslnc.org> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This has been a great discussion so far! >> >> In addition to hearing from the general user community, I'm also interested >> in hearing from the vendors who are part of our community. Please let us >> know what you think because I think we ultimately want to strike a balance >> between providing useful information to our users while also not imposing an >> undue burden on our vendor community. >> >> Thanks! >> Kathy >> Kathy Lussier >> Project Coordinator >> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative >> (508) 343-0128 >> kluss...@masslnc.org >> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier >> #evergreen IRC: kmlussier >>> On 9/8/2014 1:28 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: >>> No, I thank you for bringing up those points and I think you're right we do >>> seem to have a slightly differently view of the intent and so these >>> discussions are good to have. I hope we will hear from more folks! >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Sharp, Chris <csh...@georgialibraries.org> >>> wrote: >>>> Thanks again, Rogan, for the continued discussion on this. I'm glad we're >>>> able to air our respective opinions. >>>> >>>> > There was some discussion during the meeting about it being suggested >>>> > versus required. To me those elements that make it more user >>>> > friendly should be required or we start diluting the purpose. >>>> >>>> Ah, here is where I think we're disagreeing. From my perspective, the >>>> purpose of the vendor page is to provide a simple directory that gives our >>>> project's end users pointers toward potential vendors for support. What >>>> happens after the user sees these listings is beyond the scope of that >>>> purpose, as I see things. I think our responsibility from the Evergreen >>>> community side ends at making sure to the best of our ability >>>> that the listings *on the page itself* are up-to-date and accurate. I see >>>> a clear dividing line between that responsibility and the responsibility >>>> of the vendors to keep their web pages up to date. I'm not generally for >>>> laissez faire policies, but in this case, it seems that vendors will do >>>> what's best to communicate their services to users without us needing to >>>> add requirements to do so. >>>> >>>> Having said that, I'm satisfied that I've been heard and I'll be quiet now >>>> and let community consensus decide whether or not this requirement becomes >>>> part of our vendor listing policy. >>>> >>>> Thanks for hearing me out, >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Chris Sharp >>>> PINES System Administrator >>>> Georgia Public Library Service >>>> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 >>>> Atlanta, Georgia 30345 >>>> (404) 235-7147 >>>> csh...@georgialibraries.org >>>> http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA >>> Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, >>> York County Library System >>> >>> “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit >>> me.” >>> ― C.S. Lewis > >
