[Koha] Liblime, Koha, BibLibre and FLOSS

[Chris Nighswonger]

Hi Nicole,

2009/10/23 Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>:
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I would prefer banning all mention of paid support services from the
>> > community website to the nonsensical treatment which has come regarding
>> > listing support service companies in the past year.  I am not
>> > recommending
>> > such a ban but merely identifying what a problem the issue has been.
>>
>> I like Chris's idea better. List everyone who applies, without
>> judgment. Maybe even randomize the list on each view.
>> I believe that removing the vendor list would definitely hurt the
>> project itself. Right now, if a library is interested, they have one
>> page where they can find every koha vendor ( at least all the one's
>> serious enough to get listed. )
>>
>
> Just to add another idea about the organization of the vendor listing page -
> why not create a map - then it's not random and it's not alpha - you zoom
> into your country and see who's there - just an idea since I just finished
> teaching my mashups workshop and we talked about map mashups :)
>
>>
>> > The very thing we should avoid is grandfathering, meaning exempting,
>> > anyone from the rules.  Any rules worth having are rules which should be
>> > applied equally to all.
>>
>> As long as Liblime is the only entity with complete control over
>> koha.org, that's not going to happen.
>
> The idea is that this is going to change - we're going to form a committee
> and work with the group we choose in the survey to control Koha assets.
>
> Nicole
>
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