Le 05/03/2010 12:11, MJ Ray a écrit :
"Lenora Oftedahl" <OFTL@critfc.org>
I concur with this summary of how the press releases should be handled. I understand the vendors plight as well and would like for them to have separate space. But on a number of websites, the real news gets lost in the "We signed a contract" type stuff which is irrelevant to all but those seeking a vendor and the vendors.
Personally, I think it should be irrelevant to those seeking a vendor too. If a vendor needs to should that loudly about what contracts they're signing, rather than reporting afterwards in journal articles and so on, then something seems a bit wrong to me. "X signed Y" is not clear news - it might just mean X's sales/negotiators are good.
yes and no: I think it's important for someone to know that a french university has choosen Koha and BibLibre. If you're a university, you may find this information usefull. And if you investigate to choose or not koha: important to see it's a project heavily supported by companies. 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. my 2cts -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08