[Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider
David Cook
dcook at prosentient.com.au
Mon Jun 30 14:20:54 NZST 2014
I also struggled to find the link back to the Koha community, although I
notice that it is in the same style as the other links on the page. While I
think this has web accessibility/usability issues, I suppose it's no less
visible than the other links on the page.
Personally, I don't really like the description of the community or the
history, but that might just be in regard to my own preferences. I would
probably include a reference to the Horowhenua Library Trust as the original
sponsor, and make the reference to the Koha Community a bit more obvious.
Rather than saying "With a large community of active users, the emphasis is
on sharing information across all Koha users", I might say something like
"Koha is developed internationally by the Koha Community [link here] where
the emphasis is on collaboration and cooperation." With the exception of the
late mention of "Over 120 developers world-wide" and an earlier mention of
"support companies", it sort of sounds like the "community" might just be
Interleaf's client base.
Another idea might be to replace the following "Development is sponsored by
libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies
worldwide. Developed in New Zealand, the first system went live in 2000.
There are over 10,000 systems in operation world-wide" with something like
"Originally developed by Katipo for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New
Zealand, the first system went live in 2000. There are now many systems in
operation in many languages on every continent, except perhaps Antarctica.
The Koha Community [link here] (a global community of libraries of varying
types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies) now develops Koha
collectively and provides two major releases a year and maintenance releases
every month."
Like I said though, that might just be personal preference. That's what I
think when I think about "Companies must show their support of the Koha
Community". I think Interleaf does add a visible link (even if it is a bit
tough to spot) and genuinely offer Koha services, so it's probably all right
to list them. I'll leave that one up to the volunteers who manage the
listing.
I am curious how it was decided there are 10,000+ Koha systems (I'm sure
there are, and I think I've seen that number before, but the actual number
of Koha systems is a mystery to all, I think) and that there are 120+
developers (I believe that docs/history.txt states that there have been 246
developers as of the writing of this email, so while 120+ is true...it just
seems an odd number to choose recently).
I don't know if it's worthwhile to revisit the rules about what constitutes
support for the community by adding a visible link. After other issues
regarding the Koha support vendor listings, I would be curious to find out
how many people chose their vendor based on that page...
In any case, +1 for adding Interleaf to the listing based on the existing
rules.
-David
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:17:37 +0000
From: Martin McGovern <mmg at interleaf.ie>
To: "'koha at lists.katipo.co.nz'" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider
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We would like to resubmit our application to be included in the list of Koha
support providers.
We have been providing Koha support for some time now and have over 75 Koha
customers.
We have a link to http://www.koha-community.org on our main Koha web page so
we are fulfilling our obligations as per the "How to get listed" page on
koha-community.org.
Regards,
Martin McGovern
Interleaf Technology
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[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Martin McGovern
Sent: 09 February 2014 18:08
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Subject: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider
Interleaf Technology was established in 1998 and have been providing
technology to libraries since. We provide expertise in all aspects of
technology in libraries from Rfid systems to full Library Management System
support. We have recently switched our focus to Open Source Library systems,
specifically Koha, and are supporting several customers including special,
corporate and academic libraries. And we have a large number of schools
operating on a single Koha consortium system. We have completed many data
conversions to Koha from a selection of legacy LMS and offer support for
hosted or in-house Koha systems. We have development expertise in Koha and
expect this activity to grow as we build our Koha customer base.
Company Name: Interleaf Technology Ltd
Contact Person: Martin McGovern
Contact email: mmg at interleaf.ie<mailto:mmg at interleaf.ie>
Website: www.interleaf.ie<http://www.interleaf.ie>
Telephone: +353-1-2865855
Address: 55-57 Southern Cross Business Park
Boghall Road,
Bray,
Co. Wicklow
Ireland
Regards,
Martin McGovern
Interleaf Technology
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:26:23 -0400
From: Paul A <paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider
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At 11:17 AM 6/29/2014 +0000, Martin McGovern wrote:
>[snip]
>We have a link to http://www.koha-community.org on our main Koha web
>page so we are fulfilling our obligations as per the "How to get
>listed" page on koha-community.org.
On your page
<http://www.interleaf.ie/Products-and-Services/Library-Management-Systems/Ko
ha>,
the link is there, but pretty well hidden...
In "With a large community of active users..." the word 'community' is just
a hair different (color: #62667a; compared to color: #131342;) than the rest
of the text, and I had to go to "Page source" to find that this was your
link.
The four other "Koha" links on that page are back to yourself.
I (personally, others may have much better eyesight than I do) would suggest
that you ask your web designer to review the lack of visibility ...
and you could perhaps put an <A HREF> tag around the Koha logo.
Best -- Paul
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:52:29 -0700
From: BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix at yahoo.com>
To: "koha at lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider
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Salvete!
??? I saw the link just fine and I consider myself to have olde lady eyes on
a crummy monitor at this point. Perhaps you needs turn up the contrast on
your own?
Cheers,
Brooke
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