Re: [Koha] Senayan Library Management System: Sorry for the wrong submission
Salvete!
Krishnan M <kmlist@yahoo.in> wrote:
I don't see why just an announcement about another open source ILS is unfair on the list.
Because this list is (indirectly) funded by Koha work. The announcement would be better over on CODE4LIB, which I heartily recommend to everyone interested in FOSS LMSes in general.
Planning - do we want to be an open project that swaps innovations and information with other projects, or are we gunning for proprietary innovation? I'd like to see us foster cooperation with other ossils products; I bang my head against my keyboard wondering how many wheels are reinvented on each OS project and why. Cheers, Brooke
Hi, 2009/6/16 BWS Johnson <mhelman@illinoisalumni.org>:
Planning - do we want to be an open project that swaps innovations and information with other projects, or are we gunning for proprietary innovation? I'd like to see us foster cooperation with other ossils products; I bang my head against my keyboard wondering how many wheels are reinvented on each OS project and why.
The original message was not quite on-topic for this list, which after all is primarily for the discussion of Koha, and I second MJ's recommendation of CODE4LIB. I also recommend submitting such news to http://www.oss4lib.org/. That said, I don't mind if occasional announcements of major milestones in other F/OSS ILS projects are posted here. I agree that cooperation with other F/OSS library software projects, including ILSs, is a good thing, but I don't think we should be driven by a fear of reinventing wheels. Different projects have different emphases and there isn't a global consensus on how to build the One True ILS. What we should strive for is avoiding *unnecessary* wheel-reinventing. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton@liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt
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