[Koha] Koha demo links on koha.org

[Nicole Engard]

I'm with Owen on this - this isn't a political issue - it's a
practical one.  If someone visits the Koha demos and then downloads
Koha based on them, we're going to get a bunch of questions on list
and IRC about features we know nothing about.  Also, from a
documentation manager's point of view, I don't want people thinking I
didn't document something I was supposed to.  When you visit koha.org
you should see Koha demos, when you visit OPALS' site you should get
OPAL and when you visit LibLime you can see the LEK demos.  Makes
perfect sense to me.

Nicole

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>> LEK is more recently Koha based which should make integration of LEK
>> into Koha fairly easy at the present time.
>
> ...although that is purely speculation at this point. LibLime has not
> responded to my questions about database changes in their version.
>
>> LibLime obviously wants the
>> association with the Koha name and that at least should be used as an
>> inducement for them to participate in the community.
>
> Unfortunately I think LibLime wants the association with the Koha name
> because it lends them a credibility they are rapidly losing on other
> fronts.
>
>> I have always thought that the English demonstration should have been
>> hosted on the community website without any subtle advertising.  Failing
>> to correct the issue in the past has become a small problem for the image
>> of Koha as free software which is not dependent upon any particular
>> company.
>
> This is easy enough to say, but as you can see from the difficulty in
> setting up a Koha Foundation, harder to accomplish in reality. Who
> would have hosted this community website? Who would have owned the
> domain name? There wasn't, and still isn't, any entity which could
> have accomplished this.
>
> What I'm asking of LibLime is something that they would ask of any
> other Koha support company: Don't advertise a proprietary version on
> the community site. Does anyone believe LibLime would have allowed
> other companies to even post *news* about their own proprietary
> versions of Koha?
>
>  -- Owen
>
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