Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org>
I strongly think companies must be at a second level and all being equally presented, as they are now. But I also strongly think that companies activity is a big + for the project itself.
I disagree. We are not all being equally presented yet;
In what way are we not being equally presented yet?
One example is that the paid for support listing is now back to alphabetical, which usually almos no-one wants. Great for Anant and BibLibre - bad for software.coop and Tamil. Thomas Dukleth suggested making the primary listing user-sortable some time ago in http://old.nabble.com/-Koha-announce--Announcing-...-New-koha.org-Website-ba... I know it's possible with Wordpress in several ways (I'm sure it was with Plone too - I just didn't know how). I've taken that up again on IRC and we'll see what comes.
I think the vendor news is interesting and useful. I like the fact that a library evaluating Koha and looking for a support company can look at the news and directly contact a library using that company. That gives the customer more freedom and potentially more accurate information over the option of only contacting references provided by the company.
That's fine, but none of it requires press releases to be reposted on the koha-community site. Also, it's only coming from vendors and vendors usually aren't going to issue a press release saying it's all gone wrong with a client, are they? In fact, I've seen some vendor agreements (non-Koha) specify that clients can't discuss certain things (shall we say challenges?), in public. Either way, I don't think it's a great info source for libraries. Hope that explains, -- 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