[Koha] Request to add a new support company

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi,

1) Koha-community.org is most certainly *NOT* a clone of Koha.org. LibLime
is not a participating member of the Koha community. Long history!

2) Accepted community standards in Koha community includes individual /
corporate members (a) not using a Koha.TLD domain (b) not using a
Koha-community.TLD and (c) if you own any then the established best
practice is to place the said TLD under the common custodianship of HLT.

3) as of now there is no specific (written) rule in Koha's project
governance that dictate paid service providers can't use k / k-c TLDs. Such
a situation hasn't arisen since k-c.org came together. Everyone so far has
played nicely together in following #2 above. However, we can always put it
up for vote and adopt such a rule formally as part of our community
standard.

Btw can you please point us to the URLs on Koha bugzilla that link to
patches / commits from R-bit Technology where you have contributed code to
the Koha upstream?

-idg
On Mar 23, 2016 1:27 PM, "Radek Šiman" <radek.siman at centrum.cz> wrote:

> Hi Mirko,
>
> I'd like to ask you (and the community as well) whether the top-level
> domain koha.cz is a blocking condition to be enlisted as a paid provider.
> If yes, I will surely change it, but I like the simplicity of the domain
> (of course). I made a research few month ago and found koha.org (ie.
> LibLime), but decided to support koha-community.org clone. As some Czech
> libraries can confirm, R-Bit Technology actively participates in open
> source development of Koha extensions required in our country. So I don't
> think there could be a real problem, because our web koha.cz explicitly
> states the disclaimer at the bottom of every page and links to the Czech
> community as well as the worldwide one. In addition, it's no problem to
> extend the disclaimer above of something like "We are just a paid provider
> not an official one".
>
> Ragards,
> Radek Šiman
>
> Dne 18.03.16 v 9:23 Mirko Tietgen napsal(a):
>
>> Hi Radek,
>>
>> it is good practise not to use national top level domains for
>> commercial services related to Koha ILS.
>>
>> If you try other national top level domains, you will find that they
>> are either forwarded to koha-community.org (like koha.no), used for
>> noncommercial Koha user groups, not registered at all or not related
>> to Koha ILS.
>>
>> Using a national top level domain for commercial Koha support
>> implies the status of an "official" Koha support provider for that
>> particular country, but no such thing exists.
>>
>> Please consider using eg. rbit.cz for your commercial services and
>> forwarding koha.cz to koha-community.org or a noncommercial czech
>> user group.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Mirko
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mirko Tietgen
>> mirko at abunchofthings.net
>> http://koha.abunchofthings.net
>> http://meinkoha.de
>>
>>
>>
>> Radek Šiman schrieb am 18.03.2016
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> we'd like to ask the responsible persons to add the following record
>>> to the list of support companies. We offer Koha support in the Czech
>>> Republic from 2015. We help libraries with the installation and
>>> maintenance of this ILS as well as we support growing Czech Koha
>>> community and its development effort.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Radek Šiman
>>>
>>>
>>> Company Name: R-Bit Technology, s.r.o.
>>>
>>> Contact Person: Radek Šiman
>>>
>>> Contact email: info at koha.cz
>>>
>>> Website: http://www.koha.cz
>>>
>>> Telephone: +420 604 944 755
>>>
>>>
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