[Koha] KUDOS - ALA—Boston Public Library at 3 PM on Saturday, January 16. Proposed Agenda

[Nicole Engard]

I know it's too late since this meeting was held already, but I'm with
Brooke & MJ on this - seems like things are being run a bit too much
like a proprietary users group - which is what we all know and are
comfortable with - but which is not how an open source project works.
Also - the name should be KUG (Koha Users Group) if it's going to just
be a users group and not include developers - which is also silly
because many developers are actually users as well ... sorry - I'm
going around in circles because that's kind of how I feel when reading
through all of this.

I hope to see that some clarity came out of the meeting.

Nicole

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, M. Brooke Helman
<abesottedphoenix at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Salvete!
>
>>>>
> Standard, voting membership:(sorry these may not line up right via the
> email.)
>
> Number of Biblios    Annual cost      Votes
> 1 - 49,999      $5                    1
> 50,000 - 99,999    $10                    2
> 100,000-149,999 $15                3
> 150,000-199,999    $20                  4
> 200,000-249,999    $25                  5
> 250,000-299,999    $30                 6
> 300,000-349,999    $35                   7
> 350,000-399,999    $40                 8
> 400,000-449,999    $45                 9
> 450,000-499,999    $50                     10
> 500,000 - 549,999    $55        11
> 550,000 - 599,999    $60           12
> 600,000 - 649,999    $65         13
> 650,000 - 699,999    $70        14
> 700,000 - 749,999    $75        15
> 750,000 - 799,999    $80         16
> 800,000 - 849,999    $85        17
> 850,000 - 899,999    $90            18
> 900,000-                    $100            19
>>>>
>
>         Is a plutocracy based on Library size really the way to go on an Open Source project? While it's nice to implement a sliding cost scale so that small Libraries can afford a membership (which should probably be free with a suggested donation for all Libraries) I can't see a rationale behind a Library 18 times as large as the smallest bracket getting 19 votes for a payment that is 20 times more costly. About 3/4s of the US Libraries are small rural Libraries, and again about 3/4s of those have collections of about 10,000, depending on where you get your statistics.
>
> Cheers,
> Brooke
>
>
>
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