[Koha] Foundation conversation

[DeGroff, Amy]

There was a recent post that asked for reasons to form a foundation.  Here
are a few that we think are important:



   1. One organization that is granted the right to hold all Koha assets
   2. A single Website for Koha
   3. An end to further or future controversy or actions regarding name
   changes, copyrights, trademark issues domain names and any possible
   enforcement of the use/misuse of any of these assets.
   4. A better way to manage and channel the development efforts all
   involved (corporate and independent) for the benefit of one community
   version.
   5. New governance that will help manage the growth of Koha in a way such
   that corporate and independent entities will unite and both contribute
   time.  Corporate entities will assist in funding the foundation until it is
   self supporting.
   6. Full time paid staff that concentrate 100% of their time on the
   product to coordinate and accelerate the pace of development  preventing
   serious delays in future releases as has been experienced since the release
   of version 3.0.



By the way, we understand that there are pieces of Harley in version 3.2 and
that the release was unfrozen to incorporate some of the Harley
functionality released by LibLime.


Amy De Groff
adegroff at liblime.com

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov <
jcamins at cpbibliography.com> wrote:

> It seems, from reading comments so far, that some are in favor of a
>> foundation and some are not.  Many ideas have been shared to the listserv
>> and our initial proposal remains on the wiki.
>>
>
> That seems an accurate assessment. For those of us who were not privy to
> the foundation-forming discussion of last year, I think it would be helpful
> if the reasons for establishing a new foundation could be set forth. I read
> over the wiki, and it seems to talk more about how the foundation should be
> set up, and less about why. In fact, the comparison chart (
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Comparison_chart_of_associations_and_foundations )
> doesn't even express clearly the pros of the new foundation approach (either
> of them). I think, for me at least, this discussion would be more coherent
> if I knew why it was being repeated.
>
> Regards,
> Jared Camins-Esakov
>
> --
> Jared Camins-Esakov
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> (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445
> (e-mail) jcamins at cpbibliography.com
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>
>


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Amy Begg De Groff
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