Steve (and all), I support this idea and if there's a way I can be of assistance, let's talk. I think getting a ball like this rolling would have to come from someone like us - people who are not actively involved in just one of the products but who sees the importance of both products/projects succeeding.
Lori Ayre The Galecia Group On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Steve Wills <swi...@beyond-print.com>wrote: > Heya guys, > > I am posting this using my personal email so that it is clear that this > letter is from Steve Wills and NOT from NELINET nor from Lyrasis. This > morning I posted a letter on the Koha site where there is a debate going on > about whether they should form a foundation around the Koha software. This > was my response to that community, which I would like to share with you as > well. > > Sung to the tune of "Where Have All the Sources Gone". > > My Two cents is that we do not form a Koha community or an Evergreen > community in competition. Let's talk about forming/joining a library > community which would support and endorse Library support projects in > cooperation. > > The Evergreen community is at almost that same place at the age of three > that this Koha community seems to be with respect to this subject. The > histories are different in terms of development detail but within the > library community, there appears to be some blood in the water and that is > making it difficult to see clearly downstream. Open Source communities are > formed for the benefit of a global world in need of affordable, considered > solutions. I would propose that we think about a foundation dedicated to > managing and perfecting solutions for libraries with a structure that draws > from such successful FOSS projects as Elicpse, Sourceforge, and Apache. > Such a foundation would be chartered to serve librarian, patron and > developer alike without any particular alligence to Koha, Evergreen or > whatever else we spawn in the future that we wish to give back to the > library community. > > Steve Wills >
