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<h1>The Evergreen Community</h1>
<p class="content">The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library
-system) used by approximately 800 libraries. The software, also called
+system) used by over 1000 libraries around the world. The software, also called
Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog
interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as
circulation (checkouts and checkins), acquisition of library materials,
groups of libraries.</p>
<p class="content">The Evergreen Project was initiated by the Georgia Public Library System
in 2006 to serve their need for a scalable catalog shared by (as of now)
-approximately 250 public libraries in the state of Georgia. After
+more than 275 public libraries in the state of Georgia. After
Evergreen was released, it has since been adopted by a number of library
consortia in the US and Canada as well as various individual libraries,
and has started being adopted by libraries outside of North America.</p>
-<p class="content">The Evergreen development community is relatively small, with about nine
-active committers and roughly 50 individuals who have contributed
-patches (as of March 10th, 2011). However, the Evergreen community is
+<p class="content">The Evergreen development community is still growing, with about eleven
+active committers and roughly 65 individuals who have contributed
+patches (as of March 3, 2013). However, the Evergreen community is
also marked by a high degree of participation by the librarians who use
the software and contribute documentation, bug reports, and
organizational energy. As such, Evergreen is very much about both the