You rock!!! :) Thanks so much for giving back and joining the community :) ---
Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 n...@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Garry Collum<gcol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Paul and Galen, > > I appreciate the feedback. > > I am the System's Manager at Kenton County Public Library in Kentucky. > We are just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. We have a system > of 3 libraries, that do around 2 million circulations per year. We > started looking at ILS' a few months ago just to see what's available > out there. > > I have a Master's in Library Science and a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in > Art History, both from the University of North Texas, but I also have > many hours of college credit in Computer Science. I also have Solaris > and Redhat certifications pinned on my wall. I worked as a Reference > Librarian in both academic and public libraries until I got into > systems work at Harris County Public Library in Houston, about 8 years > ago. I got tired of the Houston commute and moved to Kentucky about > 6 years ago. > > My attendance at Kohacon spurred my interest in Koha. My only real > incentive is that I enjoy working in Koha and it's my way of giving > back. I've been using open source ever since I can remember, if you > stretch the meaning of open source to include the Commodore 64 > programs that were published in PC Magazine where you typed in > thousands of data statements, but I never really contributed to it. My > contributions are really an extension of my librarian philosophy. No > one becomes a librarian for the money. The work I do in Koha is in my > spare time, so I don't see myself doing any large scale development at > this time. > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:28 AM, paul POULAIN<paul.poul...@biblibre.com> > wrote: >> Hello Garry, >> >> I see your commits since a few months (april), but I don't remember >> seeing any introduction here, so I ask: could you pls introduce >> yourself, and tell us "why" you work on Koha ? >> You have now 58 patches accepted in Koha. Most of them are improving the >> overall quality of Koha (ie : inconsistencies fixes, like unused >> variables, html fixes ...) Do you plan to work on some features, or >> you'll just continue improving the quality? >> >> anyway, I want to express my thanks for the 58 previous patches, and my >> hopes there will be many many more ;-) >> -- >> Paul POULAIN >> http://www.biblibre.com >> Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc >> Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha.org >> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha.org > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
