[Koha] Koha demo links on koha.org

Kyle Hall kyle.m.hall at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 06:02:50 NZDT 2009


How much can we trust these statistics? I can say that my 9 CCFLS
libraries are not on this list.

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )




On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Breeding, Marshall
<marshall.breeding at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Not quite sure what the links were illustrating, but here are the persistent versions:
> (including the SID for an expired session will redirect to the main LTG page).
>
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?Country=United+Kingdom&Type=Public
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?Country=Australia&Type=Public
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?Country=France&Type=Public
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?Country=United+States&Type=Public
>
> -marshall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Ben Ide
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 11:31 AM
> To: kohalist at agogme.com
> Cc: Koha List
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha demo links on koha.org
>
> 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?Country=United+Kingdom&Type=Public
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?Country=Australia&Type=Public
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?Country=France&Type=Public
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?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
>> Agogme
>> 109 E 9th Street, 3D
>> New York, NY  10003
>> USA
>> http://www.agogme.com
>> +1 212-674-3783
>>
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