Buster wrote:
On a recent visit to a library consortium in Texas that uses LibLime, the director of that system told me about a LibLime listserv. Figuring I might receive different information from that list (and thus allowing me to pass on pros and cons to our director, instead of just cons), I attempted to sign on to the list, only to receive the the below rejection notice. So much for "open source". Why the secretive approach if the system is not proprietary?
I agree that PTFS appears to have a strange approach that looks like coralling their users into a private discussion space. In some ways that's good, because it means users of the LL-specific forks aren't confusing everyone on the community lists, but I guess it has more drawbacks for potential users. The co-op has an email list for co-op-specific announcements which I feel wouldn't be appropriate here (upgrades, service notices, special offers and so on), but I'll subscribe potential users on request. Like most support companies I think, we encourage our users to participate in the main koha-community discussions. One of our clients started the smaller UK-specific LIS-KOHA email list at jiscmail but I think it's still vendor-neutral and open to all. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha