PTFS Koha Community Support and the Koha.org Website
As you know, PTFS acquired LibLime and is integrating the LibLime operation into our existing open source software business unit. With this acquisition, PTFS inherited quite a few tasks, all to be performed simultaneously, and our work is not near complete. However, we want to increase our involvement within the community now, at this early phase of the transition. As promised, PTFS will continue to support the Koha open source community. We understand that the http://koha-community.org/ website was set up as a temporary measure before our purchase of LibLime, out of concerns that the content of koha.org was out of date and was not under the control of official members of the community. To resolve this issue PTFS would like help in updating and supporting koha.org. * * To that end, we email to solicit community volunteers to support and update portions of the koha.org web site in a collaborative fashion similar to how it worked about a year ago. We understand that people in the elected Koha roles had editing rights to the following areas on the site: 1. Documentation 2. Downloads 3. Release Manager and Maintainer 4. Translation Manager 5. etc. If the current or former persons in these or other roles are interested in taking over these website responsibilities again, and returning to a collaborative model for support of the koha.org site, please contact Kelly Sherman at ksherman@liblime.com. In addition, PTFS is happy to remain the host of the git repository and have already set up a ‘new_features’ branch for the next version with permissions to push granted to Chris Cormack. PTFS looks forward to continuing our work with the community to mutually advance the goal of producing the world’s best open source ILS system that can truly go head-to-head with the legacy proprietary systems. Best Regards John Yokley P | T | F | S Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088, ext. #111 FAX: 301-654-5789 Cell: 240-447-8970 jyokley@ptfs.com www.ptfs.com
2010/4/23 John Yokley <jyokley@ptfs.com>
If the current or former persons in these or other roles are interested in taking over these website responsibilities again, and returning to a collaborative model for support of the koha.org site, please contact Kelly Sherman at ksherman@liblime.com.
As a followup, the email server is not completely configured yet; please use the email address of ksherman@ptfs.com instead. -- Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner@ptfs.com
Should we interpret your message to mean that PTFS does not intend to turn over the koha.org domain to the community? -- Owen -- Web Developer Nelsonville Public Library http://www.myacpl.org
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
Should we interpret your message to mean that PTFS does not intend to turn over the koha.org domain to the community?
-- Owen
Yes that's how it should be. Entire domain, not parts. Else we risk repeating the whole story somewhere down the line. Till that time I vote for continuing koha-community.org and all subdomains like git.koha-community.org and bugs.koha-community.org Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2
John, Thank you so much for communicating with us all!! I just wanted to reply to let you know that I think you might have a misunderstood the purpose of koha-community.org. This site was not set up as a temporary site, but as the new official Koha site. Our reason for doing this was that as an open source community we wanted an open website where anyone can sign up and add/edit content. Since koha-community.org is open to anyone, you and Kelly and anyone can sign up and start adding content to it today. Much effort has been put in the new site to provide all the things that community want in a website and we did not have any plans on abandoning it. What would make the most sense would be for koha.org to be redirected to koha-community.org. We look forward to your content on the koha-community.org website. Thanks again, Nicole C. Engard Koha Documentation Manager 2010/4/23 John Yokley <jyokley@ptfs.com>:
As you know, PTFS acquired LibLime and is integrating the LibLime operation into our existing open source software business unit. With this acquisition, PTFS inherited quite a few tasks, all to be performed simultaneously, and our work is not near complete. However, we want to increase our involvement within the community now, at this early phase of the transition.
As promised, PTFS will continue to support the Koha open source community. We understand that the http://koha-community.org/ website was set up as a temporary measure before our purchase of LibLime, out of concerns that the content of koha.org was out of date and was not under the control of official members of the community. To resolve this issue PTFS would like help in updating and supporting koha.org.
To that end, we email to solicit community volunteers to support and update portions of the koha.org web site in a collaborative fashion similar to how it worked about a year ago. We understand that people in the elected Koha roles had editing rights to the following areas on the site:
Documentation Downloads Release Manager and Maintainer Translation Manager etc.
If the current or former persons in these or other roles are interested in taking over these website responsibilities again, and returning to a collaborative model for support of the koha.org site, please contact Kelly Sherman at ksherman@liblime.com.
In addition, PTFS is happy to remain the host of the git repository and have already set up a ‘new_features’ branch for the next version with permissions to push granted to Chris Cormack.
PTFS looks forward to continuing our work with the community to mutually advance the goal of producing the world’s best open source ILS system that can truly go head-to-head with the legacy proprietary systems.
Best Regards
John Yokley P | T | F | S Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088, ext. #111 FAX: 301-654-5789 Cell: 240-447-8970 jyokley@ptfs.com www.ptfs.com
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote: [snipped] Since koha-community.org is open to anyone, you and Kelly and anyone
can sign up and start adding content to it today. Much effort has been put in the new site to provide all the things that community want in a website and we did not have any plans on abandoning it. What would make the most sense would be for koha.org to be redirected to koha-community.org.
We look forward to your content on the koha-community.org website.
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John Yokley wrote:
As promised, PTFS will continue to support the Koha open source community. We understand that the http://koha-community.org/ website was set up as a temporary measure before our purchase of LibLime, out of concerns that the content of koha.org was out of date and was not under the control of official members of the community. To resolve this issue PTFS would like help in updating and supporting koha.org. *
Too little too late. Community members have decided to make koha-community.org the long-term home, started changing links and so on. I beg PTFS to do the right thing now: redirect *.koha.org to *.koha-community.org immediately (continuing to host bits if the community agrees) and transfer the domain to HLT as a long-term resolution. It is incredible to ask, after that painful decision, for everyone to reverse it and then also start working directly for PTFS for free! I feel we should not risk losing control of the domain again in the future while PTFS is being bought by someone else. Only the unbuyable common sector (trusts, foundations, community companies, some cooperatives and similar) can offer long-term stability for Koha. Furthermore, I think how koha.org worked "about a year ago" was already after most of the long-time webmasters like me and Russel had been booted out and - despite the best efforts of some good workers who still had access - the site was already starting to rot. Koha has a better user-generated site now, thanks to all those who have contributed, which we should cherish and keep improving. Regards, -- 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
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