{"id":4,"date":"2007-10-25T19:45:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T01:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2017-03-28T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:11:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Galen Charlton. I am a programmer and manager working on library software, including <a href=\"http:\/\/koha-community.org\/\">Koha<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen-ils.org\">Evergreen<\/a>, and other open source projects. This blog is for my musings on libraries, software, metadata, and anything else that comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"disclosure\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Disclosure<\/h3>\n<p>Some people firmly separate their personal lives from their professional work when they blog.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t; my work is part of the continuum of my life that doesn&#8217;t admit of separate little boxes (or, alternatively, I&#8217;m a boring git who talks about work too much, take your pick).\u00a0 While nothing I say on this blog should be considered an official statement of my employer or any of the groups I&#8217;m affiliated with, they are of course influences.\u00a0 Caveat lector.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, 28 March 2017, my professional affiliations are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am a manager at the Equinox Open Library Initiative.\u00a0 Equinox has a commercial interest in various open source projects for libraries, including Koha and Evergreen.<\/li>\n<li>I am a contributor to both Koha and Evergreen.<\/li>\n<li>I am release manager for Evergreen 3.0.<\/li>\n<li>I hack on various small F\/OSS projects related to libraries.<\/li>\n<li>I am a member of the American Library Association and its LITA and ALCTS divisions.<\/li>\n<li>I am active in the LITA Open Source Systems and Patron Privacy Technologies interest groups.<\/li>\n<li>I am active in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashcat.info\/\">Mashcat<\/a>, including helping to organize Mashcat activities.<\/li>\n<li>I can be found on the #code4lib IRC channel.<\/li>\n<li>I am chair of the Code4Lib Fiscal Continuity Interest Group.<\/li>\n<li>Like everybody else in the library automation industry, I have friends and acquaintances at most or all of the big firms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Past affiliations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was release manager for Koha 3.2, 3.14, and 3.16.<\/li>\n<li>Employment by Endeavor, Ex Libris, and LibLime.<\/li>\n<li>I participated in the DLF ILS-DI meetings.<\/li>\n<li>I was chair of the Evergreen Oversight Board<\/li>\n<li>I was release manager for Evergreen 2.10.<\/li>\n<li>I was the Debian packaging manager for Koha 16.05.<\/li>\n<li>I was also a minority shareholder in Equinox Software before it converted to a nonprofit.<\/a>\n<li>I was on the local planning committee, the scholarship committee, and the budget and sponsorship committee for the 2017 Code4lib conference. I also served as a duty officer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 14px;\">In 2013, I was named one of Library Journal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lj.libraryjournal.com\/2013\/03\/people\/movers-shakers-2013\/galen-charlton-movers-shakers-2013-tech-leaders\/\">Movers and Shakers<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Accountability<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I have signed the <a href=\"http:\/\/neveragain.tech\">Never Again<\/a> pledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Galen Charlton. I am a programmer and manager working on library software, including Koha, Evergreen, and other open source projects. This blog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3gJ9y-4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}