[Koha] Organizational Meeting for (USA) Koha Users Group

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

Hi John & Deb

An in person meeting for a USA Koha Users Group sounds like a fine idea 
- particularly if you can get a few people together at a conference to 
do it.

If both you and Deb are thinking of 0rganising USA specific User Group 
things then joining forces would be a grand idea.

If the idea for an IRC meeting was for a more general user group, or if 
it looks like not many will actually be able to make the in-person one 
then presumably that could still go ahead.

Cheers
Rachel

Koha Kaitiaki




John Brice wrote:
> Dear Koha Mail list Member:
>
> Announcement!
>
>
> We will be having a formal organizational meeting of Kudos (Koha Users 
> Group) at PLA.  We are still working on the date and time of the 
> event.  Once it is determined we will e-mail everyone on the list of 
> current developments.  The meeting will be broken into two parts first 
> meeting will be for existing Koha users or Koha users planning to be 
> up and running within six months.  This meeting will be an 
> organizational meeting to discuss what type of national organization 
> to form the agenda will be as follows:
>
>                               1.   How did we get here? A short history
>                                  of Koha
>                               2.   Do we need a formal users group for
>                                  Koha?
>                               3.   Develop a mission statement.
>                               4.   What type of structure do we need?
>                               5.   Form a committee of three to write a
>                                  by-laws proposal.
>                               6.   Schedule next meeting.
>
>
> The second part of the meeting will be a general interest session and 
> will be opened to anyone who is interested in Koha.
>
>
> I understand that there is an IRC meeting being organized to talk 
> about exactly these same issues.  I request that the meeting be 
> postponed to after PLA.
> I ask for this postponement based on the following reasons:
>
>    Previous meetings between vested parties of Koha, from many
>    different nations, asked that any organizations based  on the Koha
>    ILS be based on national boundaries, ie the French Koha Organization.
>
>    I believe that any Users Groups should be limited to only those
>    individuals who are using Koha presently or are planning to use Koha
>    within a relatively short time, say six months or so.
>
>    Using the IRC to form an new organization as complicated and unique
>    as a Koha User's Group would be difficult at best and and anarchy at
>    worst.   Once we have some sort of structure in place we can then
>    use the IRC channel to discuss specific  steps and or  issues.  But
>    to get started we need at least one sit down meeting with 7 to 10
>    vested users of the Koha  ILS.
>
>
> I understand that many of you may be asking yourselves what the heck 
> is going on here, who is in charge of the Koha Users Group?  Well the 
> answer is no one is at this time, hence the confusion and multiple 
> paths of discussion. 
> Each library has to make their own decision about the best  path to 
> follow in helping form a users group.  Anyone else interested in 
> discussing this matter with me can reach me at jbrice at ccfls.org or 
> call me at 814-336-1773.
>
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> John Brice
> System Administrator
> Crawford County Federated Library System
>
> Executive Director
> Meadville Public Library
>
>
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