[Koha] LibLime Thoughts

Fri Apr 30 18:33:02 NZST 2010

David,
Thank you for a thoughtful post.
There are a number of aspects to this.  I don't want to bore readers of the
list with lengthy arguments.

As a member of the committee I had agreed to a meeting on Friday night
(Sydney time).  I then learnt that the meeting was to be at 6am on Saturday
my time.  That was not practical for me and I apologised.  Concurrently
there was an exchange about agenda and the committee generally drew back.

The invitation to dialogue remains open as the post to koha-community.org
states.  Please bear in mind the limited role of the Committee (it is a
Committee of Horowhenua Library Trust, not of the community as such).  It
has little bearing on the established methods for participating in the Koha
community.  These are and remain open to PTFS, Liblime or whoever.  Open
(fortunately, in my opinion) means open.

Regards,
Bob Birchall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On
> Behalf Of David Schuster
> Sent: Friday, 30 April 2010 3:12 PM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] LibLime Thoughts
> 
> 
> Two things.
> 
> With the blog post on the koha-community site and this email and comments
> from the community I am not seeing two parties trying to work together.
> 
> PTFS - is a company and has run on a corporate model - they "purchased"
> assets so they need to decide how to handle those assets.  In that same
> concept the community WANTS some of those assets so I don't think these
> discussions on the list are going to help us gain what we all want.  A
> system we can all work together to make better.
> 
> If all of these people were sitting in a room together they would have
been
> able to work this out, but due to distance and time communication is
harder
> to achieve.
> 
> From my understanding the HLT committee had agreed to a phone call which
is
> more along the standard communication in which PTFS was comfortable but
> backed out.  At which point things started to degrade and positions
started
> to be posted on the web to the community.
> 
> I know this doesn't look like a business transaction, but for PTFS it is
and
> that is how they have known how to do business in the past.  They will
need
> to become comfortable in talking and working with the community but it
can't
> happen over night.
> 
> The LibLime purchase has only been about a month or a little more, we need
> to work together to resolve our differences to come to a common
> understanding.
> 
> I hope both parties read this and can pull back rethink how this will be
> approached and try again.  We are all very attached to this emotionally so
> we need to be careful on how we react to postings and emails in a
> professional manner.  I would hate to see this return to the situation we
> had 8 months ago.  At least PTFS was willing to talk with HLT which is
more
> than we had gotten previously.
> 
> David Schuster
> 
> Sherman, Kelly wrote:
> >
> > LibLime Thoughts
> >
> >
> >
> > LibLime (a division of PTFS) is disappointed to learn that the HLT Koha
> > Committee has chosen to cancel our scheduled conference call.  We
thought
> > that we would discuss issues important to the ongoing development of
Koha
> > and that we would form a partnership that would permit us to work
together
> > globally to build a better open source ILS solution for libraries.
> >
> >
> >
> > LibLime wants to assume the best and understands that the HLT Committee
is
> > new to business matters, acquisitions, and financial transactions on the
> > scale required to move the Koha project to the next level.   Perhaps the
> > newness of these experiences has resulted in their one-sided point of
> > view;
> > their conflicting and inaccurate web posts; and their decision to
> > participate in a conference call, only to decline it the next day.
> >
> >
> >
> > The PTFS acquisition of LibLime *will* take the Koha project to the next
> > level by utilizing agile software development and systems engineering
> > methodologies.  Working closely with libraries, this effort will result
in
> > advancing Koha into the ultimate open source ILS solution.
> >
> >
> >
> > We will support Koha through the koha.org website and we will continue
to
> > work towards our goal of developing and deploying a true next generation
> > system that manages both print and digital collections in a single
> > application.  We are asking for participants from Koha libraries that
may
> > want to partner with us to maintain documentation, design new
development
> > features, catalog bug issues, and promote Koha successes world-wide.
If
> > you are ready to help build a better Koha please contact
> > ksherman at ptfs.com.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kelly Sherman
> >
> > [image: cid:image001.jpg at 01C93493.7636F5C0]
> >
> > Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc.
> >
> > 6400 Goldsboro Rd., Suite 200
> >
> > Bethesda, MD  20817
> >
> > 301-654-8088, ext. 176
> >
> > 301-654-5789 (fax)
> >
> > http://www.ptfs.com
> >
> >
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