[Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

[Scott Kushner]

At first, I thought this was a rant about splinter groups, regionalism, and exclusionary tactics and was going to be a bit snarky and say "what is the problem with people in regions getting together to discuss Koha?" "Why does it have to be world-wide?"

After all, it's hard for some people to travel-especially librarians on limited or strapped budgets these days. Wouldn't more information sharing and the opportunity for non-koha libraries to libraries to learn things without having to travel half-way around the world be a good thing?

Then when I realized that it was really just about the name, I thought, "hey...what about REALLY regional groups like the old CODI (Customers of Dynix) used to do, and break out into Koha Users group Northeast, or Koha Users Southwest, etc., etc? 

As long as everyone shares the information at the end, what is the problem? Maybe more libraries would jump to Koha bandwagon if they had access to more information. 

Anyway...here's my .02 cents....

KohAmerica

KohaAmerica

KohaAmerican Users Group

KohAmerican Users Group Northeast...

KohaAmerican Users Group....well, you get the picture.




-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Alford, Paul
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:49 PM
To: Stebbings, Wade; Christopher Davis; Koha; partners; KohaNA
Subject: Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

"Kohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten"

- Lilo

-----Original Message-----
From: partners-bounces at bywatersolutions.com [mailto:partners-bounces at bywatersolutions.com] On Behalf Of Stebbings, Wade
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 11:24 AM
To: Christopher Davis; Koha; partners; KohaNA
Subject: Re: [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

Just run the letters together: Kohana
This is also the name of a PHP-based web development framework, but that shouldn¹t be too confusing.

<wade
Walker Art Center


On 12/18/15, 10:19 AM, "partners-bounces at bywatersolutions.com on behalf of Christopher Davis" <partners-bounces at bywatersolutions.com on behalf of cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov> wrote:

>Good Day Everyone,
>
>During its first annual meeting, the scope of the Koha North America 
>Users Group (Koha NA) was to form an organization to discuss and 
>support Koha issues native to the U.S. Although everyone is cordially 
>invited to every Koha NA meeting, all face-to-face meetings will be 
>held within the contiguous U.S. to ensure that U.S. Koha users have a 
>better chance to attend them (for many, travel outside of the U.S. is 
>prohibited).
>
>In light of recent discussion on the Koha listservs regarding its 
>extent, the Koha NA has voted to change its name to reflect its scope 
>and we are asking for your help. Please reply to this message with your 
>name suggestions and then join us at our next online meeting to vote 
>for them (Wed, Jan 13th, 2016 @ 11 am Central Time).
>
>All the best,
>
>Christopher Davis
>Secretary, Koha NA
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