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: i...@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.si...@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
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Mirko Tietgen
mi...@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: i...@koha.cz
Website: http://www.koha.cz
Telephone: +420 604 944 755
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