On 17/02/18 16:33, Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
Hi Farasat,
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Farasat Shafi ullah <farasat.shafi@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Vinod
My personal views as koha community user and part of volunteer LIS for koha it is not really a fit solution rather it will kill the spirit of community , contribution and volunteerism I.e many koha support providers are doing and free to do customization as per local need and if they think it is use full after some period they can push their customized features to community version QA to add if needed I would rather welcome if some koha support companies in India took you idea and do as I mentioned aforesaid Taking nothing away from your FOE and personal opinion, crowdfunding is actually one of the *good* ways to get new features / functionalities aboard Koha. Especially for libraries in developing countries that can not afford to foot the enter cost of development of a new feature. And it is not applicable only for developing countries, see http://devs.bywatersolutions.com
Even as community, we do work on ways to raise funds for future developments. Sponsorship / co-sponsorship of features is one of the major forward. Sponsors are also duly acknowledged in Koha's About Koha (about.pl) page.
FWIW, most major features of Koha that exist today do so because these were funded or sponsored by their original end users. Free Software does not mean a free lunch OR writing software for free. The "Free" bit is about the freedom that the software offers, in this case GPLv3.
cheers indranil,
-- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies
Well said Indranil. Just a reminder to everyone that when replying to the Digest, its best to change the subject line so that others can find your post in the archives. Cheers, Bob Calyx