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<DIV>A way to nip any PTFS threats of totalitarianism in the
bud is for a group of people to get together and just spew out for
free what PTFS seeks to capitalize on...</DIV>
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<DIV>Everyone gains! well except perhaps PTFS who seems to be
sticking their first foot out an a nasty manner... oh well!</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 4/29/2010 10:12:09 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
dschust1@tx.rr.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><BR>Two
things.<BR><BR>With the blog post on the koha-community site and this email
and comments<BR>from the community I am not seeing two parties trying to work
together.<BR><BR>PTFS - is a company and has run on a corporate model - they
"purchased"<BR>assets so they need to decide how to handle those assets.
In that same<BR>concept the community WANTS some of those assets so I don't
think these<BR>discussions on the list are going to help us gain what we all
want. A<BR>system we can all work together to make better.<BR><BR>If all
of these people were sitting in a room together they would have been<BR>able
to work this out, but due to distance and time communication is harder<BR>to
achieve.<BR><BR>From my understanding the HLT committee had agreed to a phone
call which is<BR>more along the standard communication in which PTFS was
comfortable but<BR>backed out. At which point things started to degrade
and positions started<BR>to be posted on the web to the community.<BR><BR>I
know this doesn't look like a business transaction, but for PTFS it is
and<BR>that is how they have known how to do business in the past. They
will need<BR>to become comfortable in talking and working with the community
but it can't<BR>happen over night.<BR><BR>The LibLime purchase has only been
about a month or a little more, we need<BR>to work together to resolve our
differences to come to a common<BR>understanding.<BR><BR>I hope both parties
read this and can pull back rethink how this will be<BR>approached and try
again. We are all very attached to this emotionally so<BR>we need to be
careful on how we react to postings and emails in a<BR>professional
manner. I would hate to see this return to the situation we<BR>had 8
months ago. At least PTFS was willing to talk with HLT which is
more<BR>than we had gotten previously.<BR><BR>David Schuster<BR><BR>Sherman,
Kelly wrote:<BR>> <BR>> LibLime Thoughts<BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
<BR>> LibLime (a division of PTFS) is disappointed to learn that the HLT
Koha<BR>> Committee has chosen to cancel our scheduled conference
call. We thought<BR>> that we would discuss issues important to the
ongoing development of Koha<BR>> and that we would form a partnership that
would permit us to work together<BR>> globally to build a better open
source ILS solution for libraries.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> LibLime
wants to assume the best and understands that the HLT Committee is<BR>> new
to business matters, acquisitions, and financial transactions on the<BR>>
scale required to move the Koha project to the next level. Perhaps
the<BR>> newness of these experiences has resulted in their one-sided point
of<BR>> view;<BR>> their conflicting and inaccurate web posts; and their
decision to<BR>> participate in a conference call, only to decline it the
next day.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> The PTFS acquisition of LibLime
*will* take the Koha project to the next<BR>> level by utilizing agile
software development and systems engineering<BR>> methodologies.
Working closely with libraries, this effort will result in<BR>> advancing
Koha into the ultimate open source ILS solution.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
<BR>> We will support Koha through the koha.org website and we will
continue to<BR>> work towards our goal of developing and deploying a true
next generation<BR>> system that manages both print and digital collections
in a single<BR>> application. We are asking for participants from
Koha libraries that may<BR>> want to partner with us to maintain
documentation, design new development<BR>> features, catalog bug issues,
and promote Koha successes world-wide. If<BR>> you are ready to
help build a better Koha please contact<BR>> ksherman@ptfs.com.<BR>>
<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Kelly Sherman<BR>> <BR>>
[image: cid:image001.jpg@01C93493.7636F5C0]<BR>> <BR>> Progressive
Technology Federal Systems, Inc.<BR>> <BR>> 6400 Goldsboro Rd., Suite
200<BR>> <BR>> Bethesda, MD 20817<BR>> <BR>> 301-654-8088,
ext. 176<BR>> <BR>> 301-654-5789 (fax)<BR>> <BR>>
http://www.ptfs.com</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>