[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the World

[Chris Cormack]

Exactly, we need to be front and centre in the Free and Open Source Software world.

Hence we need open data, or we are going down the do as I say not as I do road. Which is about the worst marketing any FOSS project can ever do.

Chris

On 14 December 2016 5:10:18 AM NZDT, Nathan Curulla <nate at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I hear what you are all saying about this and agree that it would be
>better to roll our own, but here is the thing: Hea is not user friendly
>at all and the Wiki is not a good marketing tool because it is not
>pretty (no offense on either of these). If you really want to market
>Koha you need to look at these things from the eyes of a non-developer,
>non-tech oriented librarian. If you do that you will see that these two
>tools are not optimal, especially in comparison to something that
>larger companies that Koha competes with are going to put out. 
>
>It is good to hear that you want to clean things up and re-invent the
>wheel, but actually doing that in a reasonable amount of time in a
>competitive environment is another thing. If someone has a concrete
>proposal for an attractive, sortable, searchable, easy to submit to
>option on the website for libraries to put information in than I think
>that would be great and I will do everything to help that I can, but
>who is going to do it and when? With products like Folio coming Koha
>needs to be front and center in the open source library world and
>showing the world how many people use it is a no brainer (and should be
>easy) in terms of ways to do just that. 
>
>So the options are that someone volunteers to create this interface
>(ByWater staff can help with this if given the access and permission,
>but we aren’t going to do it alone) with a completion target of end of
>Feb. 2017, or we link out to a third party site that already has the
>content. If we don’t hear from anyone about the former we are going to
>go with the latter. We need to move on this kind of stuff soon or Koha
>will be left in the dust in the coming emergence of open source in the
>library world. We need to become more accessible to those who don’t
>code, otherwise we are playing into the misconception that open source
>is for developers only.  
>
>Respectfully, 
>
>-Nate
>
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