I understand some people were having problems with the attachment in Brendan's email. If so, you can find the full article and attached document on our website at https://ptfs-europe.com/koha-foundation-proposal/ Thanks! Jonathan
On Wed, 1 May 2024 at 16:11, Brendan Gallagher via Koha-devel < koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> wrote: > Hello All - Good day to everyone! > > At the Koha Community Hackfest held in Marseille, France on 8th - 12th > April 2024 community members once again raised the topic of governance and > sustainability of Koha. Prior to that meeting Brendan Gallagher and > Jonathan Field had done some background work to look into the prospect of > putting the Koha project into a foundation. Although this is something that > members of the community have explored previously, the feeling is now that > the landscape has changed and it’s a good time to revisit this topic. > > There are numerous benefits of moving Koha into a Foundation for the long > term sustainability of this Open Source Project. Koha is a mature, very > large project and represents 177 years of collective work (hours) of > development time (https://openhub.net/p/koha). First of all we think > everyone should stand up and celebrate that fact - this project is > Awesome! One of the big advantages of putting Koha into a foundation is > that we can start to have a more formalised governance structure - which > will improve our communication and our development processes. In addition, > we will be protecting Koha for future generations to come. > > Part of the exploratory work involved talking to some community members, > support organisations, non-library specific foundations, and looking at the > Open > Library Foundation <https://openlibraryfoundation.org/> (OLF). This > included talking to an open source project (VuFind > <https://vufind.org/vufind/>) that has recently joined OLF, as well as a > discussion with the current President of OLF (Tom Cramer > <https://openlibraryfoundation.org/about/leadership/>). > > We presented this work to the Hackfest on 10th April 2024 to the assembled > gathering. There was a large consensus for the need of a foundation and > that OLF would be a good home for Koha. There was a request that we hold a > vote to include a wider audience of Koha libraries, community members, and > support organisations in the decision. We would therefore like to submit > the following proposal: > > “Open Library Foundation (OLF) should become the home for creating a new > Koha Foundation spot. The structure of the OLF is that each project > establishes its own legal identity where each project can create governance > models that fit for their open source project, establish banking accounts > for fund raising and supporting community focused programs, allow for > consolidated technology resources (website, bug tracker, mailing list > forums, etc.), and have legal advice/practice available to support and > protect the project.” > > Before putting this proposal to a vote, we would like to leave a window of > opportunity to ask questions and discuss. We have included the background > and research that we did, please take a look at the document (attached). > Once you have digested this information please feel free to discuss via > IRC, post questions to the Koha mailing lists or join the new chat facility > at https://chat.koha-community.org/. There is also a Koha community > meeting on the 15th May > <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_15_May_2024>where > any questions can be answered. > > Alternatively, contact bren...@bywatersolutions.com or > jonathan.fi...@ptfs-europe.com who would be happy to take any questions > you may have. > > After a period of discussion, we will send out a link to a vote. We would > request that as many members of this community who have an interest in the > future of Koha participate in this vote. > > Cheers and thank you, > Brendan and Jonathan > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan A. Gallagher > > bren...@bywatersolutions.com <i...@bywatersolutions.com> > > Follow us: > <https://www.facebook.com/ByWaterSolutions/> > <https://www.instagram.com/bywatersolutions/> > <https://www.youtube.com/user/bywatersolutions> > <https://twitter.com/ByWaterSolution> > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : https://www.koha-community.org/ > git : https://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : https://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- *Jonathan Field* Managing Director PTFS Europe [image: Phone icon] M: +44 7919 372002 | T: +44 1483 378728 ext. 1000 [image: Email icon] jonathan.fi...@ptfs-europe.com [image: Link icon] www.ptfs-europe.com Sign up for our Newsletter <http://eepurl.com/dPjjkn> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/ptfs-europe-limited> [image: Click to open YouTube] <https://www.youtube.com/@PTFSEurope> [image: Click to open PTFS Europe webpage] <https://www.ptfs-europe.com/>
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