"Scott Kushner" <skushner@mtpl.org> wrote:
Yes, indeed...
Sometimes "users" and "developers" are at opposite poles...
In the old proprietary software barons marketplace, perhaps. We should do better. Another world is possible!
I think this is more about giving the "users" more of a voice than they've traditionally had in the past, no?
Koha was initiated by users, all the work is paid for by users, the users are in control. So I feel that the silence of some users is of their own choosing (and that frustrates some of us) - I rejoice that there are some outspoken users in the Koha community. I think it's particularly brilliant that some more users/purchasers seem to be developing into developers, both personally and organisationally.
But, I don't think this is to the exclusion of the developers...imo.
As written, it was clearly excluding developers from decision-making. I really hope that users and developers can work in partnership. But I'm told KUDOS didn't unfold quite like that, so I wait to see what the people who were there report. Best wishes, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op