<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I agree with everything Jim says bellow, but especially the personally hostile attacks. I may not agree with everything all the parties involved have done, but continually attacking people and organizations, esp. when they have just reached out, isn't going to lead to them having better relations with your portion of the community. As they say, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.<br><br>Edward<br><br><br><br><br>--- On Wed, 9/15/10, Jim Minges <jminges@nekls.org> wrote:<br><br>From: Jim Minges <jminges@nekls.org><br>Subject: Re: [Koha] Message from PTFS/LibLime<br>To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 7:53 PM<br><br>I welcome John Yokley's statement calling for steps to reduce divisiveness and for creation of a foundation to hold all Koha trademarks and domain names as a very positive step. However
his specific proposal is just a starting point for discussion and I agree entirely with the suggestions for an entirely open discussion by all parties of approaches to a foundation or other umbrella Koha organization that will indeed not be dominated by any single company or organization. I encourage John or Patrick Jones to attend KohaCon as an ideal step toward open discussion.<br><br>However, I am distressed by a few responses that seem personally hostile. We like to speak about the Koha "community." A community is better served through reasonable discussion and exchange of views and I would like to suggest that it will be more productive and professional to seek the high road in our postings to the list.<br><br><br><br>Regards,<br>Jim<br><br>-- <br><br>"NEKLS and its member libraries are leaders and innovators in providing exemplary library services."<br><br>Jim Minges, Director<br><br>Northeast Kansas Library System<br>4317 West 6th
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