<p class="MsoNormal">There was a recent post that asked for reasons to form a
foundation. Here are a few that we think are important:</p>
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<ol><li>One organization that is granted the right to hold all Koha assets</li><li>A single Website for Koha</li><li>An end to further or future controversy or actions regarding name changes,
copyrights, trademark issues domain names and any possible enforcement of the
use/misuse of any of these assets.</li><li>A better way to manage and channel the development efforts all involved
(corporate and independent) for the benefit of one community version.</li><li>New governance that will help manage the growth of Koha in a way such that
corporate and independent entities will unite and both contribute time. Corporate
entities will assist in funding the foundation until it is self supporting.</li><li>Full time paid staff that concentrate 100% of their time on the product to coordinate
and accelerate the pace of development preventing serious delays in future
releases as has been experienced since the release of version 3.0.</li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By the way, we understand that there are pieces of Harley in
version 3.2 and that the release was unfrozen to incorporate some of the Harley
functionality released by LibLime.</p><br><br>Amy De Groff<br><a href="mailto:adegroff@liblime.com">adegroff@liblime.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcamins@cpbibliography.com" target="_blank">jcamins@cpbibliography.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">It
seems, from reading comments so far, that some are in favor of a foundation and
some are not. Many ideas have been shared to the listserv and our initial
proposal remains on the wiki. <br></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><div>That seems an accurate assessment. For those of us who were not privy to the foundation-forming discussion of last year, I think it would be helpful if the reasons for establishing a new foundation could be set forth. I read over the wiki, and it seems to talk more about how the foundation should be set up, and less about why. In fact, the comparison chart (<a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Comparison_chart_of_associations_and_foundations" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Comparison_chart_of_associations_and_foundations</a> ) doesn't even express clearly the pros of the new foundation approach (either of them). I think, for me at least, this discussion would be more coherent if I knew why it was being repeated.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Jared Camins-Esakov</div><br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Jared Camins-Esakov<div>Freelance bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC</div>
<div>(phone) +1 (917) 727-3445</div><div>(e-mail) <a href="mailto:jcamins@cpbibliography.com" target="_blank">jcamins@cpbibliography.com</a></div><div>(web) <a href="http://www.cpbibliography.com/" target="_blank">http://www.cpbibliography.com/</a></div>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Amy Begg De Groff<br>Product Manager<br><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">LibLime, a Division of PTFS</span></b><br>1-301-654-8088 ext 162<br>
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