[Koha] Koha Foundation Vote is open

[Thomas Dukleth]

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On Wed, May 15, 2024 21:47, Auld, Andrew wrote:
> The Koha Foundation proposal vote is now open. You can place your vote on
> the Koha Community website and there you will also find a link to the
> proposal and background research. Votes must be placed by 5pm UTC on
> Friday
> 14 June. One vote per person please.

If I remember correctly, previous survey software used for voting on Koha
community concerns certainly had the principle of one vote per person but
allowed vote reconsideration and changing the one counted voted by voting
again with a different vote.

> https://koha-community.org/koha-foundation-vote/

In https://ptfs-europe.com/koha-foundation-proposal/ , very little is
stated about the intended governance structure of a foundation other than
the legally required five member board of directors and two volunteers,
and the unstated presumptive necessity that it has to avoid legal
conflicts of interest to comply with Open Library Foundation and US
non-profit 501c3 rules.  For example, there is no statement considering a
concern of historic discussions of a possible Koha foundation to
geographically federate some input into foundation governance for such an
internationally distributed project as Koha to avoid the foundation
excessively serving US or Anglo-US interests based on the US location of
the foundation other than "in the
first instance, to keep the governance light".

There is also no historical background explaining that the project had
previously organised under Horowhenua Library Trust [HLT], subsequently
THT.   Upon the dissolution of THT for HDC to directly run Horowhenua
libraries directly, Koha community assets might have devolved to
Horowhenua District Council [HDC] which had created HLT and then THT as an
administrative organisation for local libraries.  I do not remember what
happened if anything decisive subsequent to "THT and Koha: a new Trust
Deed" - https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2016-October/046346.html
and https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/THT_and_Koha .  The complication
at the time was that there was no representative Koha community
organisation to which THT could transfer Koha community assets other than
THT which was being dissolved.

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