In Discussion...referring to your last line... Hal Harold Bright Director of Information Services Farmington Libraries - 6 Monteith Drive Farmington, CT 06032 - hbright@farmingtonlibraries.org W 860-673-6791 x 204 - F 860-675-7148 http://www.farmingtonlibraries.org ________________________________________ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] on behalf of Ian Walls [koha.sekjal@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:55 PM To: G. Laws Cc: Koha Listserv Subject: Re: [Koha] Ping KUDOS Greg, Answers in-line (as best I can), then some commentary. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:20, G. Laws <glawson@rhcl.org> wrote:
1. What does KUDOS stand for (the breakout of the acronym, if it is)? I presume Koha Users and Developers xxx xxx?
Legally (that is, in our founding documents), KUDOS doesn't standard for anything, it's just "KUDOS". The original acronym was Koha Users and Developers of Open Source.
2. Is the Google group still active?
No, not really.
3. Is the KUDOS site still intended to be active?
No, not really. KUDOS has had a difficult time getting traction. It was originally proposed back in the LibLime days (by Josh, I believe). After LibLime went off to do it's own thing, KUDOS was split between folks running Koha, and folks running one of the forks, and I think this created some friction towards getting things accomplished. The additional restriction of KUDOS being "North American only" made it seem like it was trying to isolate itself from the global community. There was a very strong focus on obtaining 501c3 non-profit status, but less emphasis on what do actually DO as a group. Yes, we had a very enjoyable conference a couple years ago, but that's really been it. Most everything else was meetings about documents and process and governance. I feel as though KUDOS has squelched itself by putting the cart of governance before horse of real community value. There still seems to be strong interest in the US for getting libraries together for Koha-related meetings. As a community, we already have communications channels in place to help facilitate this; it's just a matter of using them to make a meeting happen. I don't think we need a regional governance entity to organize this for us; those who are willing to help can just help. Following up on that, I'd be happy to assist in the coordination of a New England or Northeast regional get-together, should anyone wish to host such an event (Farmington, I'm looking at you :) ) Cheers, -Ian
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