[Koha] Request to add a new support company

[Radek Šiman]

Hi,

1) I know the history. Sorry, I couldn't find a better word than "a 
clone", but I believe everybody understands the background.

2) No problem with accepted (not written) standards. For the future I'd 
recommend to write them down, so the next providers have no problem with 
it. This particular case will be discussed with the Czech community to 
serve the paid service over accepted website. Would be 
http://koha.rbit.cz accepted, for instance?

3) R-Bit Technology will surely pay nicely with the rules.

To answer the bugzilla question: there are no commits / patches from 
R-Bit Technology in the official Koha repository yet. But they probably 
will this year. We have the extensions and issues on github repository. 
As I mentioned before, although it's koha related open-source code, it 
applies to the Czech republic only. I think that Josef Moravec or Michal 
Denar from the czech community can confirm the effort. For instance, 
there are two SMS drivers written for Koha purposes only, but they are 
not in CPAN yet.

Regards,
Radek Šiman

Dne 23.03.16 v 9:35 Indranil Das Gupta napsal(a):
> 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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