[Koha] web sites, was: Meeting Notes

[Mike Mylonas]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 12:31, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-09-22 13:39:41 +0100 Mike Mylonas <mike at dragon-is.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > My primary goal is to see the www.koha.org site become the pre-eminant
> > site for all Koha related information.
> 
> Please reconsider. I think this aim puts www.koha.org in conflict with 
> almost all the other Koha sites. Many of them are trying to be the 
> best site for their chosen type of information about Koha.

Maybe I am suffering to a lack of sleep, but I am not quite sure of this
comment ... I would have thought that the www.koha.org site, would be in
most cases the first port of call for someone looking for information on
Koha.  I am certainly not trying to compete with the more specialist
Koha related sites.

> > There is a lot of good
> > information spread around the internet (with sites like your own), and
> > it will be great if we can centrally collate/organise the majority of
> > this information.
> 
> Great indeed, but remember: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, 
> indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!" My site is my own.

That individualism is what make Koha (and most Open Source Software)
special and I am certainly not wanting to dictate to anyone what they do
with their own site.  Maybe my use of "centrally collate/organise" was
an incorrect term .. I was just trying to avoid the use of the word
catalogue.

> Basically, I'll share with you if you share with me. At the moment, 
> things like the koha logo are restricted use and most of the koha site 
> is the default copyright (all rights reserved), as far as I can tell. 
> That's very annoying when making publicity materials at short notice 
> and part of the motive for my Koha England microsite: anyone can use 
> its text, although I like being credited.

I won't comment on the copyright of the text on the current Koha site,
as I feel that maybe Rachel is in the best position to clarify this.  It
may also be wise to move this part of the conversation (if required) to
the devel list, as it may be something we can align with the
Documentation team.

It might help me to understand better, if you could take the time to let
me know what you would like to see as the focus of the www.koha.org
website.

Cheers
Mike