[Koha] Stuff

[Nicole Engard]

I'm with Brooke on this.  I went to bed sad and stressed last night
because of the emails going back and forth.  Somehow the discussion of
the new page turned from constructive criticism and comments to a
battle and I hate that.

I too joined the community because of the community! I love Koha and I
love the people who work on it and everything we've all achieved
together.  While I know that some of the issues discussed regarding
the site are important - they also seem like silly things to be
fighting about.  I'm with whoever said we should have multiple options
of sorting - make everyone happy.  I don't know if the page itself is
HTML or if the vendors are all in a database, but if we put them in a
table we can easily create dynamic pages with different ordering.

But I digress.  The issue at hand is working as a community and maybe
coming up with some sort of mission/vision/bill or rights statements
and all working together - which I know we can do cause we created
Koha!!

Just my idealistic 2 cents on the subject.

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Nicole C. Engard
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2009/5/8 BWS Johnson <mhelman at illinoisalumni.org>:
> Salvete!
>
> I didn't want to copy and paste, and I didn't want to reply in the same
> thread, because I think the discussion is turning back on itself again.
>
> Josh wasn't at KohaCon, so he couldn't have heard me say this recently, even
> though I think I've mentioned this in past, at least in passing. From an
> organisational standpoint, I think the project is going through growing
> pains. A lot of new folks are here, which is great, and we still have a lot
> of people on board that have been here forever. Also good. One of the things
> that we didn't do at the last convention that I think needs to happen from
> now on is some sort of community recognition of contributions.
>
> It's hard for a newbie to navigate the straits of the community at the
> moment, and I think that sucks. I've heard a good deal of folks complain
> about a good deal of issues, and I've seen other newer folks treating the
> project in a similar fashion to a traditional vendor situation. Neither of
> these things are healthy.
>
> I also do not like seeing more English and less other languages on this
> list. I'm American, and I don't want to see this become an American project;
> I joined for an international effort. I didn't join for a meritocracy, I
> joined for a more Habitat for Humanity based hands on feel. Even if I did
> join for a meritocracy, I think we're leaning towards plutocracy and
> oligarchy the way things are headed. As far as the vendor pages are
> concerned, I'm for alphabetical order (or RNG even!) by geography. Mimic the
> UN sort of. (We know their mistakes now, yeah?)
>
> I think it would be very worthwhile to *as a community* on the listserv
> asynchronously develop a sort of bill of rights and a planning document for
> the project that's not a technical roadmap. I think we need a few very easy
> to comprehend concise vision sort of statements as a reaffirmation of where
> we're coming from and where we want to go. Sunlight and no sleepy eyes this
> way...
>
> I also think we have a good kaitiaki and haven't been observing her wisdom
> of late (or consulting to figure out what it may be.)
>
> Or we could argue forever and start forking left and right.
>
> My two beads,
> Brooke
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