Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
Learning koha internals + librarian terms + zebra + ... is not a small thing !
Very interesting analysis Paul. I wonder if it's possible to calculate the approx. number of lines of code contributed by people not obtaining a salary from either a library or a support organization supporting Koha. They'd be the true base of 'volunteers', since everyone else would represent people who were getting paid one way or another to work on the project, right? Probably a hard figure to come up with, but I suspect it'd be pretty low relative to the lines of code contributed by either librarian workers and support companies.
I think it's impossible, and it would not be meaningfull anyway. Let me explain what I did between 2002 and 2007 : I (with hdl since 2004) have invested all my non-paid time into Koha. In fact, during those years, we just had enough incomes for 2, didn't search more money, didn't wanted to grow. I think I could say that half of our time was dedicated to hacking Koha without "obtaining a salary from either a library or a support organization". That's almost impossible for me to separate what was sponsored by a library from what was "self-sponsored" / "self-involvement". In fact, for 5 years, I did not charge what I should have, but what I needed. Now that we have founded BibLibre (we are 8), we try to continue this way. We will publish on http://www.biblibre.com/blog, in the next days, a counter of all those actions. That represent something like 15%-2°% or our time. Cheers -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08