[Koha] report generation-Till Reconciliation for each branchlibraries

[Cab Vinton]

If the Development Exchange has not worked as well as hoped, perhaps
it's because a critical mass was lacking? I think we would have been
very interested to learn more about the project.

The transparency of price quotes is above my pay grade unfortunately.
But seeing as there's a ton of transparency in at least certain areas
of the software development world -- guru.com, rentacoder.com,
scriptlance.com, etc. -- perhaps it's not all that out of the
question. Certainly, it would seem to be gibe well w/ the whole open
source ethos.

Just my 2c.

Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
Sanbornton, NH


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:

> In general I like this idea, and LibLime has implemented a small-scale
> experiment we call the LibLime Development Exchange that attempts to
> provide this kind of transparency to our customers.
>
> However, one problem with doing this as the Koha project, is that
> price tags for enhancements aren't generally considered transparent by
> the companies providing support on Koha. I think most of the Koha
> companies (correct me if I'm wrong folks) would consider unfinished
> specifications and quotes for those specifications to be private. If
> you don't understand why that tends to be the case, you likely haven't
> ever managed a services company :-).
>
> Another problem, and we've seen this happen on the LibLime Development
> Exchange, is that there is really very little overlap between what one
> library wants and another library wants. It's really surprising, but
> unfortunately true. So there is less opportunity for co-sponsorship
> than you might think.
>
> Cheers,
>
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