[Koha] Liblime, Koha, BibLibre and FLOSS

[Nicole Engard]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > I would prefer banning all mention of paid support services from the
> > community website to the nonsensical treatment which has come regarding
> > listing support service companies in the past year.  I am not
> recommending
> > such a ban but merely identifying what a problem the issue has been.
>
> I like Chris's idea better. List everyone who applies, without
> judgment. Maybe even randomize the list on each view.
> I believe that removing the vendor list would definitely hurt the
> project itself. Right now, if a library is interested, they have one
> page where they can find every koha vendor ( at least all the one's
> serious enough to get listed. )
>
>
Just to add another idea about the organization of the vendor listing page -
why not create a map - then it's not random and it's not alpha - you zoom
into your country and see who's there - just an idea since I just finished
teaching my mashups workshop and we talked about map mashups :)


> > The very thing we should avoid is grandfathering, meaning exempting,
> > anyone from the rules.  Any rules worth having are rules which should be
> > applied equally to all.
>
> As long as Liblime is the only entity with complete control over
> koha.org, that's not going to happen.
>

The idea is that this is going to change - we're going to form a committee
and work with the group we choose in the survey to control Koha assets.

Nicole
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