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A massive thank you to all of those who attended one of our Opportunity Links User Groups over the last week (22^nd June – Exeter, 23^rd June - Newcastle, 28^th June – Manchester and 29^th June – London).  I would like to give a special mention to all of our guest speakers, Gary Todd and Martin Trude from Digital Public, Peter Gaca from Wandsworth, and all of those who presented their FSDs – Rebecca Nuttall from Cornwall, Jonathan Gilroy from Newcastle, Nicola Hall from Redcar and Cleveland, Kate Meek from Manchester and Ruth Davies from Redbridge (apologies to anyone I have forgotten).

I hope you all found it useful and enjoyable, certainly myself, Jess, Hans, Mark, Barry, Mariko and Mike found it very informative – we would be nowhere without your feedback.  Materials from the day have now been emailed to the attendees; however, if you were unable to attend a group, all materials will also go out to members of our ‘evince release’ group once the items below are ready:

1. Usability spreadsheet updated with all of the refinements and new suggestions from the groups.  If you brought a list of requests to the user group, feel free to email this too, however, please continue to use evincesupport@opp-links.org.uk as your main point of contact regarding bugs or other comments/issues with our products.
2. An update on some major issues raised, for example ‘Field by Field Acceptance in the QM’.
3. An update from Gary Todd (Digital Public / FIDy) so far as he is able to give!
4. An update on ‘Favourite Reports’ which will soon be added to the evince blog.
5. A list of FSD urls and their owners favourite features so that you can get exploring (not just Opp Links ones).
6. Peter Gaca’s updated presentation from the London user group.
7. A short document explaining how searches work on FSDs (e.g. relevance). 

And possibly more besides.

For items 4 and 5 above, please could you please reply with:

a) Your favourite evince reports (just one or two is fine).  You might want to consult other evince users in your LA; essentially something written especially for your LA which you think other evince users could make use of.  Please could you let me know the name of the report, the folder it’s in and roughly what you use it for.

b) The web address for your FSD (doesn’t matter who built it), and what you like about it.

Kind regards

Simon