[Koha] Introduction - Sean McIntyre

[Sean McIntyre]

Braedon,

Thank you for your 2 cents.  You make some very good points.  The term 
'fork' however has a good number of negative connotations, so we have 
reason to want to avoid using that term and don't feel it communicates 
the situation accurately.  Your point on how the term "Community" is 
often perceived is a good one and we will certainly avoid that phrasing 
as we go forward.

Sean McIntyre
Engineering Mgr, ILS
LibLime, a Division of PTFS

On 5/14/2010 11:02 PM, Braedon Vickers wrote:
> On 15/05/2010 1:30 p.m., Sean McIntyre wrote:
>    
>> As we go forward, how would you and others like the Koha 3.2 alpha
>> software referred to?  Does the phrase you have used here, "community
>> supported Koha" work for the majority?  How do other vendors deal with
>> this terminology challenge?  Our preference would be to use terms that
>> everyone is comfortable with across the board, the greater value here is
>> in the software not the labels affixed to that software.
>>
>>      
> Hi Sean,
>
> I am only very vaguely involved with Koha - basically lurking on IRC and
> the lists to keep up to date after some summer work that involved
> deploying Koha, in case I want to get more involved in the future - and
> as such can not attempt to speak for anyone in the community but myself.
>  From my (mostly) outsider point of view, the most logical system I can
> see would be to name based on treating "community supported Koha" as the
> original, and the PTFS versions as forks.
>
> While I understand the situation is slightly more complicated than that,
> it seems like a good approximation. A fork indicates some difference
> from the original without making any implications as to superiority
> either way. Calling original Community, on the other hand, does imply
> inferiority for me due to its use in other projects, as pointed out by Reed.
>
> "Community supported Koha" could be referred to as simply "Koha" for the
> general public, tacking on something like "Standard" or "Trunk" as
> appropriate for the audience when necessary to make the distinction
> clear, and the PTFS/LibLime versions as "PTFS Enterprise/Harley Koha".
>
> My two cents.
>
>       Braedon Vickers
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