[Koha] Thoughts on volunteering (Jared Camins-Esakov)

Claudio Kutufà claudiok at nexusfi.it
Thu Jul 4 20:08:23 NZST 2013


in italian:
GRAZIE 1000 !! :-)

Claudio


At 12.00 04/07/2013 +0530, bineesh kumar wrote:
>thankss....
>
>
>On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> > Jared and the team,
> > My deepest appreciations to you and the rest of the Koha team. You might
> > not know how much you have done especially for Libraries in Africa which
> > cannot afford commercial Library Systems and even if they do the running
> > costs of those systems are overkill. I can attest to that as I work for a
> > University which initially bought a very expensive system with a grant but
> > the running costs and costs of additional modules were too much for my
> > university. When I discovered Koha it was a blessing. I took sometime
> > learning it but when we finally implemented it, it was worth all the time I
> > spent learning it. I am trying to learn one or two programming langauges
> > myself so that I can contribute positively to the open source community.
> > Mesfin
> >
> >
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> > Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 93, Issue 5
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> > Today's Topics:
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> >    1. Learn and Get Koha Live DVD as per your Need (Vinod Kumar Mishra)
> >    2. Thoughts on volunteering (Jared Camins-Esakov)
> >
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: 3 Jul 2013 17:30:25 -0000
> > From: "Vinod Kumar Mishra" <vinod_librarian at rediffmail.com>
> > To: <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, <nmlis at yahoogroups.com>,
> >     <iatlis at yahoogroups.com>, <libtech at yahoogroups.com>,
> >     <Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Subject: [Koha] Learn and Get Koha Live DVD as per your Need
> > Message-ID: <20130703173025.22736.qmail at f5mail-224-142.rediffmail.com>
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> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > With my continues efforts to provide services to LIS community free of
> > cost i would like to inform you that many professionals are willing to
> > implement Koha at their Institute (Particularly New)but they feels
> > helpless. Therefore i would like to inform you that you can personally
> > contact me to learn the same and i will provide you the Pre Configured Live
> > DVD of koha exactly as per your requirements in such a way that you can
> > immediately automate your library with few click of mouse free of cost and
> > make beautiful Library website also. in case of further problem you may get
> > remote support from my side and other community. Please note that all the
> > above process will run perfectly as i have already implemented it at IIT
> > Roorkee Saharanpur Campus and it is running without any problem since one
> > year.
> >
> > Dear friends now a days many new govt and private organizations came into
> > existence so this is right time to prove yourself as a good librarian and
> > play effective role in their setup in a cost effective manner. You start
> > with OSS and later on decide what will suit future requirement. For more
> > details feel free to contact.
> >
> > Koha live DVD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vkmkoha/?source=navbar
> >
> > Thanking You.
> >
> >
> > With regards,
> > Vinod Kumar Mishra,
> > Assistant Librarian,
> > Biju Patnaik Central Library,
> > NIT Rourkela,
> > Mob:91+9439420860
> >     91+6612462103 (O)
> > email: vinod_librarian at rediffmail.com
> >      : mishravk79 at gmail.com
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:34:32 -0400
> > From: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com>
> > To: Koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Subject: [Koha] Thoughts on volunteering
> > Message-ID:
> >     <CALVDfQxfDPKxspZVP8gfx1SdkMWorpY8OPr1ZAVMcaEQv3SbBQ at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >
> > Greetings, fellow members of the Koha community,
> >
> > My name is Jared Camins-Esakov. There are two reasons that name might sound
> > familiar. The first is that in my day job I do a lot of work with Koha
> > (hosting, support, bespoke development, and all that jazz). The second is
> > that just over a month ago I finished my term as Release Manager for Koha
> > 3.12. I am very proud of what we did during my six month term. Koha has
> > more features and works better for more libraries than ever before. I think
> > that's a big deal. During those six months, I spent a lot of time working
> > on Koha, as my wife can attest. I think I could count on my fingers the
> > number of days in the entire release cycle (more than six months!) that I
> > didn't do _anything_ related to the Koha release. I did this because I
> > believe that Koha is important, and a better Koha is better for all of us.
> > >From a business point of view, volunteering my time was a good investment
> > because I am now selling and supporting a better system.
> >
> > But you know what? I don't expect to be paid for all that time I spent
> > volunteering my time for the community. Volunteering my time to build Koha
> > 3.12 was its own (sometimes frustrating) reward. That's what Open Source is
> > all about*, and I am proud to be a member of a community that understands
> > this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jared Camins-Esakov
> >
> > *Not to say that you can't or shouldn't make money from working on Open
> > Source projects. I believe strongly that you can and should (and, of
> > course, my company does), but contributing to an Open Source project like
> > Koha is about more than just money.
> >
> >
> > P.S. Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask everyone in the Koha
> > community to take a moment to thank your friends and family for sharing you
> > with us.
> >
> > --
> > Jared Camins-Esakov
> > Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC
> > (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445
> > (e-mail) jcamins at cpbibliography.com
> > (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
> >
> >
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