There was a recent post that asked for reasons to form a foundation. Here are a few that we think are important: 1. One organization that is granted the right to hold all Koha assets 2. A single Website for Koha 3. An end to further or future controversy or actions regarding name changes, copyrights, trademark issues domain names and any possible enforcement of the use/misuse of any of these assets. 4. A better way to manage and channel the development efforts all involved (corporate and independent) for the benefit of one community version. 5. New governance that will help manage the growth of Koha in a way such that corporate and independent entities will unite and both contribute time. Corporate entities will assist in funding the foundation until it is self supporting. 6. Full time paid staff that concentrate 100% of their time on the product to coordinate and accelerate the pace of development preventing serious delays in future releases as has been experienced since the release of version 3.0. By the way, we understand that there are pieces of Harley in version 3.2 and that the release was unfrozen to incorporate some of the Harley functionality released by LibLime. Amy De Groff adegroff@liblime.com On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov < jcamins@cpbibliography.com> wrote:
It seems, from reading comments so far, that some are in favor of a
foundation and some are not. Many ideas have been shared to the listserv and our initial proposal remains on the wiki.
That seems an accurate assessment. For those of us who were not privy to the foundation-forming discussion of last year, I think it would be helpful if the reasons for establishing a new foundation could be set forth. I read over the wiki, and it seems to talk more about how the foundation should be set up, and less about why. In fact, the comparison chart ( http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Comparison_chart_of_associations_and_fou... ) doesn't even express clearly the pros of the new foundation approach (either of them). I think, for me at least, this discussion would be more coherent if I knew why it was being repeated.
Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov
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