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.
Press releases have a poor signal-to-noise ratio. I think this information is best provided in a table that shows the names of Koha libraries, the version of Koha they are using, and, if they are using a support vendor, which one they are using. This way, the information is provided, but the puffery is not. -- Stacy Pober Information Alchemist Manhattan College Library Riverdale, NY 10471 stacy.pober@manhattan.edu
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober@manhattan.edu> wrote:
Press releases have a poor signal-to-noise ratio.
I think this information is best provided in a table that shows the names of Koha libraries, the version of Koha they are using, and, if they are using a support vendor, which one they are using.
This way, the information is provided, but the puffery is not.
Having a channel on the site that gathers these raw commercial announcements has value. It's certainly correct they should not take primary placement on the community site. For someone considering Koha, a review of the press release history from all the related vendors can tell a lot about the health of the commercial support community over time -- something a current status board or any other summary cannot. -reed (disclaimer- I work for a Koha support vendor)
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober@manhattan.edu> wrote:
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.
Press releases have a poor signal-to-noise ratio.
The noise floor of news in general is pretty high in any case. :-) Kind Regards, Chris
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