[Koha] post survey thoughts

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Tue Sep 22 22:53:28 NZST 2009


Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the problem with creating a foundation now is the amount of
> time it takes and choosing a country and all that jazz.  Whereas if we
> sign up with a custodian now and make it clear that this is just
> temporary it gets us started and we can focus on forming our own
> foundation over time.  Also forming our own foundation costs money -
> so that means we have to wait until we have that ...

Also, we may make mistakes (says this ex-officer of an association
that failed through a mix of imperfect rules drafted by experts and a
lack of officer candidates IMO).

Starting a new foundation is not a quick fix and after 3+ years of
waiting for various people working on it and no idea what they've
produced, I'm very strongly in favour of joining an open association.

> >> #3 - What is an opensearch portal for Koha? :) [...]
> It was on MJ's original poll - I assume someone asked him to add it -
> or that he knows what it is :)

The poll is linked from
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=kohafoundation
and you can find the phrase in "desires" in the quote from
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Koha-Foundation-p3453288.html
by Paul Poulain.

Hrm, a statistician teaching librarians how to do research?
We're in a scary place now! ;-)

Regards,
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