[Koha] Update on International Koha Fund

[Greg Lawson]

This is just a quick observation on my part, but THT as an abbreviation
for Te Horowhenua Trust is almost never broken out. That's probably fine
for the mailing lists where the audience could reasonably be expected to
know the association, but even in the Memorandum of Understanding THT is
not explicitly identified as Te Horowhenua Trust, despite it being used
three times in the block diagram (or maybe I didn't read well enough and
missed it?).


Greg Lawson

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On 05/20/2015 04:14 PM, Brendan Gallagher wrote:
> Hello All -
>
> I have been quite busy lately and I haven't been able to get an update
> out.  (You'll notice that I have not even been present in IRC)  We had some
> family trips.
>
> Anyways, the updates you've all been waiting for.
>
> 1. From Joann - the MOU has been passed around and signed by everyone so
> far (I believe - Jo please correct me here if I am wrong on that).  So that
> means we are totally ready to start collecting money since THT has
> established a bank account for the Fund.  YAY on that.  We do have some
> code for a paypal button, that we could put on the homepage of
> koha-community.org immediately - but that really needs to be decided by the
> community as a whole.  Let's vote at the next general meeting about that.
>
> 2. I have completed a draft of the ByLaws for the committee.  That has been
> passed around to the committee members of the Fund for review, additions,
> and comments.  We have set a 1 week timeline from today for the completion
> of that.  After that we will release it to the whole community for
> additional comments, additions, and questions.  We should have 1~2 weeks of
> it being publicly available for review before it is voted on at a general
> irc meeting.
>
> 3. ByWater Solutions, Biblibre, and PTFS-Europe have all pledged to submit
> money to the International Koha Fund to help seed the fund immediately and
> once we are ready to roll.  That way we have some money to do some good
> projects for the community.
>
> 4. Jonathan Druart has resigned from Biblibre effective May 1st and is
> currently unemployed.  I propose the we use some of the money of the Fund
> to hire him as a contractor to a) sign-off on bugs b) QA bugs c) clean up
> bugzilla (for example we have a large number of bugs that are major or
> critical for some that have no patches even written for them, plus there is
> also a bunch of other clean up that will help every other developer in the
> community - that honestly none of us really have time to do).  Since he has
> no allegiance to a support provider - he is exactly the third party person
> we are looking for.
>
> Please discuss and I'm sorry to have missed the last general meeting.
>
> Thanks and Cheers,
> Brendan Gallagher
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