[Koha] Thoughts on volunteering (Jared Camins-Esakov)

Thu Jul 4 17:00:29 NZST 2013

Jared and the team,
My deepest appreciations to you and the rest of the Koha team. You might not know how much you have done especially for Libraries in Africa which cannot afford commercial Library Systems and even if they do the running costs of those systems are overkill. I can attest to that as I work for a University which initially bought a very expensive system with a grant but the running costs and costs of additional modules were too much for my university. When I discovered Koha it was a blessing. I took sometime learning it but when we finally implemented it, it was worth all the time I spent learning it. I am trying to learn one or two programming langauges myself so that I can contribute positively to the open source community. 
Mesfin

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Today's Topics:

   1. Learn and Get Koha Live DVD as per your Need (Vinod Kumar Mishra)
   2. Thoughts on volunteering (Jared Camins-Esakov)

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Date: 3 Jul 2013 17:30:25 -0000
From: "Vinod Kumar Mishra" <vinod_librarian at rediffmail.com>
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Subject: [Koha] Learn and Get Koha Live DVD as per your Need
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Dear All,

With my continues efforts to provide services to LIS community free of cost i would like to inform you that many professionals are willing to implement Koha at their Institute (Particularly New)but they feels helpless. Therefore i would like to inform you that you can personally contact me to learn the same and i will provide you the Pre Configured Live DVD of koha exactly as per your requirements in such a way that you can immediately automate your library with few click of mouse free of cost and make beautiful Library website also. in case of further problem you may get remote support from my side and other community. Please note that all the above process will run perfectly as i have already implemented it at IIT Roorkee Saharanpur Campus and it is running without any problem since one year.

Dear friends now a days many new govt and private organizations came into existence so this is right time to prove yourself as a good librarian and play effective role in their setup in a cost effective manner. You start with OSS and later on decide what will suit future requirement. For more details feel free to contact.

Koha live DVD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vkmkoha/?source=navbar

Thanking You.

With regards,
Vinod Kumar Mishra,
Assistant Librarian,
Biju Patnaik Central Library,
NIT Rourkela,
Mob:91+9439420860
    91+6612462103 (O)
email: vinod_librarian at rediffmail.com
     : mishravk79 at gmail.com

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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:34:32 -0400
From: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com>
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Subject: [Koha] Thoughts on volunteering
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Greetings, fellow members of the Koha community,

My name is Jared Camins-Esakov. There are two reasons that name might sound
familiar. The first is that in my day job I do a lot of work with Koha
(hosting, support, bespoke development, and all that jazz). The second is
that just over a month ago I finished my term as Release Manager for Koha
3.12. I am very proud of what we did during my six month term. Koha has
more features and works better for more libraries than ever before. I think
that's a big deal. During those six months, I spent a lot of time working
on Koha, as my wife can attest. I think I could count on my fingers the
number of days in the entire release cycle (more than six months!) that I
didn't do _anything_ related to the Koha release. I did this because I
believe that Koha is important, and a better Koha is better for all of us.
>From a business point of view, volunteering my time was a good investment
because I am now selling and supporting a better system.

But you know what? I don't expect to be paid for all that time I spent
volunteering my time for the community. Volunteering my time to build Koha
3.12 was its own (sometimes frustrating) reward. That's what Open Source is
all about*, and I am proud to be a member of a community that understands
this.

Regards,
Jared Camins-Esakov

*Not to say that you can't or shouldn't make money from working on Open
Source projects. I believe strongly that you can and should (and, of
course, my company does), but contributing to an Open Source project like
Koha is about more than just money.

P.S. Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask everyone in the Koha
community to take a moment to thank your friends and family for sharing you
with us.

-- 
Jared Camins-Esakov
Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC
(phone) +1 (917) 727-3445
(e-mail) jcamins at cpbibliography.com
(web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

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