Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Scott Kushner
At first, I thought this was a rant about splinter groups, regionalism, and exclusionary tactics and was going to be a bit snarky and say "what is the problem with people in regions getting together to discuss Koha?" "Why does it have to be world-wide?" After all, it's hard for some people to t

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Liz Rea
Perhaps you should consider resurrecting KUDOS Koha users and developers, open source. Liz On 21/12/15 10:13, Chris Cormack wrote: > * Alford, Paul (palf...@mylakelibrary.org) wrote: >> "Kohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten" >> > From a southern hemiphere perspe

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Chris Cormack
* Alford, Paul (palf...@mylakelibrary.org) wrote: > "Kohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten" > From a southern hemiphere perspective. I think the NA what people are objecting to. Also picking the name of another open source project seems like a bit of a stink move.

Re: [Koha] [Koha North America] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Jason M. Burds
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Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread catalog
I kind of like Kohana just because in native American it means "swift". Kind of  apropos.Wendy From: "Thrasher, Peggy" To: "Stebbings, Wade" ; Christopher Davis ; Koha ; partners ; KohaNA Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Alford, Paul
"Kohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten" - Lilo -Original Message- From: partners-boun...@bywatersolutions.com [mailto:partners-boun...@bywatersolutions.com] On Behalf Of Stebbings, Wade Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 11:24 AM To: Christopher Davis; Koha;

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Thrasher, Peggy
I think the point is to remove the "NA" because it is misleading. How about Koha+US (Koha and us) -Original Message- From: partners-boun...@bywatersolutions.com [mailto:partners-boun...@bywatersolutions.com] On Behalf Of Stebbings, Wade Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 11:24 AM To: Christ

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Stebbings, Wade
I understand, but there¹s no getting around conflicts in this highly interconnected world‹you just want to minimize them. Typing KUSUG into Google results in 32,000 hits, including an actor¹s name on IMDB. Name of a group vs name of a piece of software is not too confusing. But if the NA is the ex

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Dan Alexander
From a lurkers perspective: I've always liked the way kohana rolls of the tongue (ko-Han-na). On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Stebbings, Wade < wade.stebbi...@walkerart.org> wrote: > Just run the letters together: Kohana > This is also the name of a PHP-based web development framework, but that

[Koha] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Christopher Davis
Good Day Everyone, During its first annual meeting, the scope of the Koha North America Users Group (Koha NA) was to form an organization to discuss and support Koha issues native to the U.S. Although everyone is cordially invited to every Koha NA meeting, all face-to-face meetings will be held wi

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-20 Thread Stebbings, Wade
Just run the letters together: Kohana This is also the name of a PHP-based web development framework, but that shouldn¹t be too confusing. ‹wade Walker Art Center On 12/18/15, 10:19 AM, "partners-boun...@bywatersolutions.com on behalf of Christopher Davis" wrote: >Good Day Everyone, > >During