Vandana Singh <utk.ils.resea...@gmail.com> > A new website, Open Source ILS (http://opensourceils.com), is now available > as a resource for librarians and anyone interested in open source software > integrated library systems (OSS ILS).
Hi - could that site link to the Koha community support forums http://koha-community.org/support/forums/ and the Koha blogs aggregator http://owu.towers.org.uk/planets/koha/ as well as those linked to particular vendor versions, please? Also, the Koha vendors page contains errors (we are not "the noncommercial Koha community" - we are commercial, or at least mixed) and is also pretty offensive IMO, classing three vendors as "major" (surprisingly, that doesn't include Catalyst or BibLibre) and the rest of us as chopped meat - sorry, "others". Could you replace that with a link to or inclusion of http://koha-community.org/support/paid/ please? We really did put quite a bit of thought into the vendor listing (some of which can be found in meeting logs and emails). And could you correct the instruction "Remember, open source vendors are still for-profit vendors" because I think there are at least two social enterprises (sometimes called "for-service vendors") and one public sector vendor among us. Maybe it should say "can still be"? Finally, seeing as I'm asking for the moon on a stick, could you include the F on the front of FOSS and speak about freedom a bit, please? (I thought the US liked freedom...) > [...] This website is the first to consolidate resources on > systems such as Evergreen and Koha in a single place. And I don't think that's true, is it? It's great to have a site from UTK joining those available, but we've seen sites from JISC and others which have passed away, as well as ones like http://opensource.califa.org/ which still seem to be around. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
