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

[Kyle Hall]

I personally like KohaUS ( or should it be KoHaUS ). It indicates it is US
centric, and more importantly, it can be pronounced ( Ko-House ).

Kyle

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:

> I think everyone needs to pause and reflect on what the goal of this
> process is, because we seem to be continuing to dig this hole deeper
> instead of climbing out.
>
> > 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).
>
> The goal of this process is to define the terms of a Koha user group
> which meets within the contiguous United States. This narrow
> definition is of the location of the meetings, not of those who are
> welcome in the group.
>
> This rule about meeting locations is not made in order to be
> exclusionary, but in order to create more opportunities for U.S.
> members to participate. The United States is big, travel is expensive,
> and libraries don't like to spend money.
>
> I would encourage everyone to make suggestions which don't have "North
> America" or "America" as a basis. Both terms include areas which are
> outside the contiguous United States and thus explicitly excluded.
> Take a look at the maps:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
>
> Terms like "North America" and "America" are WHY we're hot water in
> the first place.
>
>  -- Owen
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