Salve!
I recently saw that the Mellon Foundation is giving awards to groups which have contributed significantly to Open Source projects which help the typical constituency of the Mellon Foundation (this includes libraries!).
Hooray! This is totally a librarian project :D I am more than happy to submit a nomination, if it's okay with you all. I'd like to point out that they'll take multiple nominations, so it won't preclude other folks from nominating Koha if I nominate it. I intend to state how much money Koha has saved me as well as highlighting how very well suited Koha is to this award. It really does all of the stuff the foundation is looking for. There's a deadline of 4 August on this, so we should come together quickly to get something in. One final observation - the application calls for identifying 1-2 individuals most responsible for the project. This is one reason why it would be ideal to have more than one person nominate. We could identify more than 2 people that way :D (I wouldn't go past say 4, that way we don't look unorganised.) Because in my mind, the people that are most responsible for things and would be our best spokespeople would be Stephen Hedges Paul Poulain and Joshua Ferraro. I don't think Chris, Pate or any of the other folks that really laid the foundations for Koha are out of the question, of course. I do very much appreciate everyone elses efforts, but this application would force us to pick 2 people for the contact role so I feel very much pressed to do just that. I'm sure that the panel will realise that there are more than two people to contact and have contributed significant amounts to the project. Would you three be willing to be mentioned on the nomination petition as contacts? If none of you have the time, we really ought to find someone that can serve, but you all have always been there for me for the least of questions :D 1,000 words is very short, so this shouldn't take too long if you guys really want to nominate the project. Thanks so much for the excellent suggestion! I always knew that grants were out there that would be perfect for this project, but I never had the time to research those on top of my own library duties. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale MA