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

Thu Jul 4 18:30:44 NZST 2013

thankss....

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Mesfin Teshome <mesfinatyh at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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>    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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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:34:32 -0400
> From: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com>
> To: Koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> 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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