[Koha] Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration

[BWS Johnson]

Salve!


>I recently saw that the Mellon Foundation is giving awards to groups
>which have contributed significantly to Open Source projects which
>help the typical constituency of the Mellon Foundation (this includes
>libraries!).


Hooray! This is totally a librarian project :D I am more than happy to
submit a nomination, if it's okay with you all. I'd like to point out
that they'll take multiple nominations, so it won't preclude other folks
from nominating Koha if I nominate it. I intend to state how much money
Koha has saved me as well as highlighting how very well suited Koha is
to this award. It really does all of the stuff the foundation is looking
for.

There's a deadline of 4 August on this, so we should come together
quickly to get something in. 

One final observation - the application calls for identifying 1-2
individuals most responsible for the project. This is one reason why it
would be ideal to have more than one person nominate. We could identify
more than 2 people that way :D (I wouldn't go past say 4, that way we
don't look unorganised.) Because in my mind, the people that are most
responsible for things and would be our best spokespeople would be

Stephen Hedges
Paul Poulain 
and
Joshua Ferraro.

I don't think Chris, Pate or any of the other folks that really laid the
foundations for Koha are out of the question, of course. I do very much
appreciate everyone elses efforts, but this application would force us
to pick 2 people for the contact role so I feel very much pressed to do
just that. I'm sure that the panel will realise that there are more than
two people to contact and have contributed significant amounts to the
project. 

Would you three be willing to be mentioned on the nomination petition as
contacts? If none of you have the time, we really ought to find someone
that can serve, but you all have always been there for me for the least
of questions :D 

1,000 words is very short, so this shouldn't take too long if you guys
really want to nominate the project.

Thanks so much for the excellent suggestion! I always knew that grants
were out there that would be perfect for this project, but I never had
the time to research those on top of my own library duties.

Cheers,
Brooke @ Hinsdale MA 
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