[Koha] First time successful crowdfunding in India from Library professionals

[vinod mishra]

Dear All,

Amazing and appreciable efforts by all contributors and supporters.

In continuation with my below email, its my pleasure to inform you that
within 48 hours of announcement many library professionals/Vendors came
forward and collected Rs. 18000, now only 2000 is left to achieve target of
Rs. 20000.

Please give your willingness at below google form and become part of this
first movement. All contributors name will be announced on Forums and Koha
websites after achieving the final target.

Google form: https://goo.gl/forms/8Z7zKrF3etK45AFq1

Details of Initiative: http://mishravk.com/2018/02/crowdfunding/


With Regards,

Vinod Kumar Mishra,
Assistant Librarian,
Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),
NIT Rourkela,
Sundergadh-769008,
Odisha,
India.
Mob:91+9439420860
Website: http://mishravk.com/
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-7874

*"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical
relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma
Gandhi*

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 8:20 PM, vinod mishra <mishravk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all/Koha users,
>
> As you know at present by default all the category of patrons can either
> place purchase suggestions or not via opac but many educational institutes
> only allow purchase suggestion by the faculty or some specific category of
> users. Similarly in public and other libraries children’s may not be
> allowed for purchase suggestions or lower level of non technical/teaching
> staffs in special libraries. Hence this restriction is very much needed
> which is applicable for all libraries globally. As per discussion and email
> one of the leading Koha supporter/Developer L2C2 from India (
> http://www.l2c2.co.in/) is ready to develop the said feature and the
> charge would be only Rs. 20000/- (Approx USD 280). Hence i am ready to pay
> Rs. 5000 and expecting some more contributors with a minimum of Rs. 1000.
> Kindly give your details through google form
> <https://goo.gl/forms/8Z7zKrF3etK45AFq1> if you are willing to be part of
> this voluntary support.
> For more details please visit at: http://mishravk.com/2018/02/
> crowdfunding/
>
> Please note that this is the correct method for getting the new feature in
> Koha so that amount once paid the benefit will reach globally. I know many
> of the good features has been added by Koha vendors on huge payment basis
> specially by Indian government libraries but benefit never came to public
> domain, which is against the open source ethics in my view. Please approach
> your vendor to make such code public if you have already paid for it.
>
> With Regards,
>
> Vinod Kumar Mishra,
> Assistant Librarian,
> Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL),
> NIT Rourkela,
> Sundergadh-769008,
> Odisha,
> India.
> Mob:91+9439420860
> Website: http://mishravk.com/
> ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-7874
>
> *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical
> relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma
> Gandhi*
>