[Koha] Request to add a new support company

Fri Apr 8 10:37:31 NZST 2016

Hello,

from now on the original domain koha.cz permanently redirects to the 
Czech koha community website. Instead, I registered a brand new domain 
name koha-v-knihovne.cz (can be read as "koha in library"). I believe 
it's acceptable now for offering a service to the Czech libraries, but 
it still does not imply any confusion with an "official" support.

Thanks in advance for processing this request
Radek Šiman

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Updated registration data follows:

Company Name: R-Bit Technology, s.r.o.
Contact Person: Radek Šiman
Contact email: info at koha-v-knihovne.cz
Website: http://www.koha-v-knihovne.cz
Telephone: +420 604 944 755

Dne 23.03.16 v 10:18 Radek Šiman napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> 1) I know the history. Sorry, I couldn't find a better word than "a 
> clone", but I believe everybody understands the background.
>
> 2) No problem with accepted (not written) standards. For the future 
> I'd recommend to write them down, so the next providers have no 
> problem with it. This particular case will be discussed with the Czech 
> community to serve the paid service over accepted website. Would be 
> http://koha.rbit.cz accepted, for instance?
>
> 3) R-Bit Technology will surely pay nicely with the rules.
>
> To answer the bugzilla question: there are no commits / patches from 
> R-Bit Technology in the official Koha repository yet. But they 
> probably will this year. We have the extensions and issues on github 
> repository. As I mentioned before, although it's koha related 
> open-source code, it applies to the Czech republic only. I think that 
> Josef Moravec or Michal Denar from the czech community can confirm the 
> effort. For instance, there are two SMS drivers written for Koha 
> purposes only, but they are not in CPAN yet.
>
> Regards,
> Radek Šiman
>
> Dne 23.03.16 v 9:35 Indranil Das Gupta napsal(a):
>> Hi,
>>
>> 1) Koha-community.org is most certainly *NOT* a clone of Koha.org. 
>> LibLime
>> is not a participating member of the Koha community. Long history!
>>
>> 2) Accepted community standards in Koha community includes individual /
>> corporate members (a) not using a Koha.TLD domain (b) not using a
>> Koha-community.TLD and (c) if you own any then the established best
>> practice is to place the said TLD under the common custodianship of HLT.
>>
>> 3) as of now there is no specific (written) rule in Koha's project
>> governance that dictate paid service providers can't use k / k-c 
>> TLDs. Such
>> a situation hasn't arisen since k-c.org came together. Everyone so 
>> far has
>> played nicely together in following #2 above. However, we can always 
>> put it
>> up for vote and adopt such a rule formally as part of our community
>> standard.
>>
>> Btw can you please point us to the URLs on Koha bugzilla that link to
>> patches / commits from R-bit Technology where you have contributed 
>> code to
>> the Koha upstream?
>>
>> -idg
>> On Mar 23, 2016 1:27 PM, "Radek Šiman" <radek.siman at centrum.cz> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mirko,
>>>
>>> I'd like to ask you (and the community as well) whether the top-level
>>> domain koha.cz is a blocking condition to be enlisted as a paid 
>>> provider.
>>> If yes, I will surely change it, but I like the simplicity of the 
>>> domain
>>> (of course). I made a research few month ago and found koha.org (ie.
>>> LibLime), but decided to support koha-community.org clone. As some 
>>> Czech
>>> libraries can confirm, R-Bit Technology actively participates in open
>>> source development of Koha extensions required in our country. So I 
>>> don't
>>> think there could be a real problem, because our web koha.cz explicitly
>>> states the disclaimer at the bottom of every page and links to the 
>>> Czech
>>> community as well as the worldwide one. In addition, it's no problem to
>>> extend the disclaimer above of something like "We are just a paid 
>>> provider
>>> not an official one".
>>>
>>> Ragards,
>>> Radek Šiman
>>>
>>> Dne 18.03.16 v 9:23 Mirko Tietgen napsal(a):
>>>
>>>> Hi Radek,
>>>>
>>>> it is good practise not to use national top level domains for
>>>> commercial services related to Koha ILS.
>>>>
>>>> If you try other national top level domains, you will find that they
>>>> are either forwarded to koha-community.org (like koha.no), used for
>>>> noncommercial Koha user groups, not registered at all or not related
>>>> to Koha ILS.
>>>>
>>>> Using a national top level domain for commercial Koha support
>>>> implies the status of an "official" Koha support provider for that
>>>> particular country, but no such thing exists.
>>>>
>>>> Please consider using eg. rbit.cz for your commercial services and
>>>> forwarding koha.cz to koha-community.org or a noncommercial czech
>>>> user group.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> Mirko
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Mirko Tietgen
>>>> mirko at abunchofthings.net
>>>> http://koha.abunchofthings.net
>>>> http://meinkoha.de
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Radek Šiman schrieb am 18.03.2016
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> we'd like to ask the responsible persons to add the following record
>>>>> to the list of support companies. We offer Koha support in the Czech
>>>>> Republic from 2015. We help libraries with the installation and
>>>>> maintenance of this ILS as well as we support growing Czech Koha
>>>>> community and its development effort.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Radek Šiman
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Company Name: R-Bit Technology, s.r.o.
>>>>>
>>>>> Contact Person: Radek Šiman
>>>>>
>>>>> Contact email: info at koha.cz
>>>>>
>>>>> Website: http://www.koha.cz
>>>>>
>>>>> Telephone: +420 604 944 755
>>>>>
>>>>>
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