As usual, while I know where you're coming from ... are we saying we should all refrain from answering the survey and showing that Koha is used worldwide simply because the results aren't submitted as open source? Seems like shooting ourselves in the foot to me. Nicole On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:29 PM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com>
Marshall Breeding has published his annual Library Automation Perceptions Report: http://www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2009.pl Koha came out pretty darn well when independently hosted. What I'm surprised about is that the non-US Koha support companies are missing. This means that next year we need to get more international Koha libraries to answer the survey!!
Some already answer, but they were classified as Koha -- Independent even when they are hosted by us (and not just us installing and/or supporting their server).
The big problem I have with that survey is that libraries give Marshall Breeding their data, but the survey results are not given back under any free and open source software terms. It seems rather unjust to ask librarians to spend their time on something unequal like that, doesn't it?
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