[Koha] KUDOS Board meeting minutes, Feb 4, 2010

[Walls, Ian]

MJ,


For our purposes, "institution" includes not only libraries and consortia, but also support companies, co-ops and other such entities.  What it doesn't cover is individuals' installations.  To allow interested parties not otherwise affiliated with an institution, we're putting a sponsorship system in place, so anyone can join on their own, provided they can find another member to sponsor them (which promotes community participation).  All members get voting rights (provided that voting on the matter does not constitute a conflict of interest as laid out in the Conflict of Interest Policy).

So, to be clear:  Anyone (library, consortium, support company or individual developer/user) can join KUDOS if they are located in North America, and have an installation of Koha (or in the case of individuals, are sponsored by another member).  The ALAMW10 'D' bug is squashed.

Good catch on the vendor definition issue.  We'll be sure that "vendor" is clearly defined, so as to avoid ambiguity and confusion.

Our initial choices for webinar hosting are based off what the officers' institutions can provide right now.  A free and open solution would of course be the best, and I'll take a look at Lernid and others.  We're focusing right now on the board strokes of when the virtual conference could happen, and what it should cover, more than the specific technologies to use, but we'll have to deal with that eventually, and having options that are compatible with the spirit of FLOSS is definitely desirable.  More on that as it develops.

I hope this clears things up.  Thanks for your input and assistance!


-Ian Walls
VP of KUDOS

-----Original Message-----
From: MJ Ray [mailto:mjr at phonecoop.coop] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:16 AM
To: Walls, Ian
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] KUDOS Board meeting minutes, Feb 4, 2010

Ian Walls, KUDOS Vice President wrote:
> I hope this clears up some of the questions about where KUDOS is
> going and how we hope to get there.  If there are any ambiguities,
> please let us know, and we'll do our best to clarify.

Just to be clear:

>     * Membership statement approved at ALAMW10 will stand as is:
>     *   "Membership should be for an institution in North America
>     *   with an installation of Koha."

Does this mean that the ALAMW10 bug of excluding Developers (the D in
KUDOS) stands?

I also note that "Vendor" is not defined anywhere - is it left to
members to self-identify their class?

>  [...]  Potential web hosting options are elluminate and Go To Meeting/Webinar.

Please would you consider things that work with free and open source
software, such as Lernid?  I think some options are listed on the
wiki.koha.org tutorials page.

Thanks,
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