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

Fri Jul 5 01:00:43 NZST 2013

Thanks a million. Jared Camins-Esako, because of your efforts and other
members of the Koha community we have been able to automate our library
services. Personally I have been helping other institutions in Zambia to
migrate to Koha. Just like you, I have spent countless hours teaching my
self the internals of Koha and Linux; especially Debian Squeeze and now
Wheezy. I takes a lot of sacrifice; time, energy and the will to carry on.
Unlike you, local support is almost impossible ( I have pioneered Koha in
Zambia) I had to teach myself everything! Koha and the environment it works
in.

My Koha work has been very easy with people like you in the Koha community.

Viva Koha

On 4 July 2013 10:08, Claudio Kutufà <claudiok at nexusfi.it> wrote:

> in italian:
> GRAZIE 1000 !! :-)
>
> Claudio
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> 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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>> >    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<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@**f5mail-224-142.rediffmail.com<20130703173025.22736.qmail at f5mail-224-142.rediffmail.com>
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>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
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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 <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:
>> >     <CALVDfQxfDPKxspZVP8gfx1SdkMWo**rpY8OPr1ZAVMcaEQv3SbBQ at mail.**
>> gmail.com<CALVDfQxfDPKxspZVP8gfx1SdkMWorpY8OPr1ZAVMcaEQv3SbBQ at mail.gmail.com>
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>> > 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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