[Koha] Interested in Open Source ILS?

[MJ Ray]

Vandana Singh <utk.ils.research at gmail.com>
> A new website, Open Source ILS (http://opensourceils.com), is now available
> as a resource for librarians and anyone interested in open source software
> integrated library systems (OSS ILS).

Hi - could that site link to the Koha community support forums
http://koha-community.org/support/forums/
and the Koha blogs aggregator
http://owu.towers.org.uk/planets/koha/
as well as those linked to particular vendor versions, please?

Also, the Koha vendors page contains errors (we are not "the
noncommercial Koha community" - we are commercial, or at least mixed)
and is also pretty offensive IMO, classing three vendors as "major"
(surprisingly, that doesn't include Catalyst or BibLibre) and the rest
of us as chopped meat - sorry, "others".

Could you replace that with a link to or inclusion of
http://koha-community.org/support/paid/ please?  We really did put
quite a bit of thought into the vendor listing (some of which can be
found in meeting logs and emails).

And could you correct the instruction "Remember, open source vendors
are still for-profit vendors" because I think there are at least two
social enterprises (sometimes called "for-service vendors") and one
public sector vendor among us.  Maybe it should say "can still be"?

Finally, seeing as I'm asking for the moon on a stick, could you
include the F on the front of FOSS and speak about freedom a bit,
please?  (I thought the US liked freedom...)

> [...] This website is the first to consolidate resources on
> systems such as Evergreen and Koha in a single place.

And I don't think that's true, is it?  It's great to have a site
from UTK joining those available, but we've seen sites from JISC
and others which have passed away, as well as ones like
http://opensource.califa.org/ which still seem to be around.

Regards,
-- 
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