[Koha] Koha demo links on koha.org

[Ben Ide]

I believe that The Community feels very strongly otherwise, since more
that 75% of the recent voting valued ownership issues, compared to
less than 20% who wanted to actually promote Koha to libraries.

That's kind of too bad, that 20% thing, because -- contrary to the
notion that any company can "cash in" on Koha's good name -- virtually
no one knows what the heck a Koha is.

http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=United+Kingdom&Type=Public
http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=Australia&Type=Public
http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=France&Type=Public
http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=United+States&Type=Public

Thanks,
-- Ben

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Thomas Dukleth <kohalist at agogme.com> wrote:
> I now have a corrected understanding of Nicole's position.  However much
> better it would be to have only community versions of Koha demonstrations
> linked from the community website, I would rather we not advocate purity
> in a manner that LibLime is liable to respond to in the most negative
> manner.
>
> At this time, I prefer that we ask LibLime to demote their non-community
> demonstrations as linked from the community website in favour of community
> demonstrations with no subtle advertising.  I prefer a gentler approach to
> LibLime than asking them to eliminate links to their demonstrations.  In
> suggesting this approach, I am hoping that we would be encouraging LibLime
> to act more favourably towards the community which I hope that they would
> reciprocate.
>
> I am advocating this less than pure approach for the time being to see if
> it may have a favourable effect.
>
>
> Thomas Dukleth
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