Oh that is an excellent point. So Koha is installed in 10 thousand (10,000) plus libraries around the world (considering there are 1000+ in Turkey and 1000+ in Argentina, just to name two large concentrations of installations) . Maybe other systems have that too, but man everyone who works with Koha - that's a really great number. So a BIG PAT on everyones back - that's just awesome.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomasco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it will all depend on how you read the numbers. > > If a project has (say) a third of the developers another project has, but > has the amount of institutions using it, Koha has, it is a point won by the > project. If the feature set is equal or better, then those numbers become > more and more in favor of the project. > > That said, I'm not sure how the FTE measuring model serves to what > purpose. I guess it will depend on marketing guys using the numbers one way > or the other. > > In any case, I'm intrigued by this measures, because I'm confident Koha > would show really interesting numbers ;-) > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poul...@biblibre.com> > wrote: > >> Le 12/02/2015 22:14, Marshall Breeding a écrit : >> >> Brendan, >> >> >> >> Some personnel FTE numbers from last year can be seen on the tables from >> the Library Systems Report: >> >> >> http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/sites/americanlibrariesmagazine.org/files/content/Charts_MarshallBreeding.pdf >> >> >> >> The numbers are for the company overall, and not limited to efforts >> expended on specific products or projects. >> >> >> >> I 100000% agree with what other have said ! We differ so much from >> proprietary vendors that comparing is a hazardous thing. Do you have the >> answer to the following question: "is 2km bigger or smaller than 3kg ?" >> >> Additional thought: I feel that, once again, I have missed the "marketing >> speech" in my answer (3FTE). I should have said 10 ! >> Marshall, what you must understand is that we've no marketing guy in our >> project (at least on koha-devel mailing lists). Most of us (all of us ?) >> don't care of being bigger/more beautiful/higher/... than others. We focus >> on product and development. What we love is hacking, not selling/promoting. >> The consequence is that you'll compare numbers given by marketing guys vs >> numbers given by tecchie guys (I'm not implying that marketing guys lie. >> But we don't have the same way of understanding/explaining things. Once >> again 2km vs 3kg... ) >> >> Just one example: at the beginning of BibLibre, we were counting "Aix >> Marseille university" as one library ("it's obvious, that's one contract"). >> Then we realized that other were counting differently. So now we count Aix >> Marseille as 57 libraries ("it's obvious, it's a university with 57 >> different libraries"). >> But as we're still honest, scientists, and we prefer valid & verifiable >> numbers. So we usually say "BibLibre support more than 500 libraries >> through 100+ contracts" ;-) >> >> Another example : compare my presentation made at KohaCon and the one >> made by Alvet (from Ebsco) : one was basic, the other was fancy. We will >> probably never reach such a quality in terms of fanciness. That's probably >> a weakness, but I'm sure that's also a strength: we want nothing less than >> changing the way ppl do business ;-) 2kg and 3km ... >> >> OK, stopping to behave as the "old wise man", back to working ;-) >> >> -- >> Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner >> BibLibre, expert du logiciel libre pour les bibliothèques >> BibLibre, Open Source software for libraries expert >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org >> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >> git : http://git.koha-community.org/ >> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ >> > > > > -- > Tomás Cohen Arazi > Prosecretaría de Informática > Universidad Nacional de Córdoba > ✆ +54 351 5353750 ext 13168 > GPG: B76C 6E7C 2D80 551A C765 E225 0A27 2EA1 B2F3 C15F > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher ByWater Solutions CEO Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting and Complete Support Packages Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA - Office: Redding, CT Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com i...@bywatersolutions.com
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