Hi, On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Paul A <[email protected]>wrote:
> At 02:44 PM 12/16/2013 -0600, Nicole Engard wrote: > >> Can we also get this list added to the list of mailing lists on the Koha >> site? >> > > No suggestion of a "fictional conspiracy theory", but a couple of days ago > we were happy to see that Koha belongs to the international Koha community, > and that [American] PTFS had lost in court. > > So why an "American" list? (and from another thread, "American" meeting?) > Distinctions matter. One US firm does not represent the entirety -- or any piece of, really -- the community of Koha libraries that happen to be located in North America. > I'm in Canada so the idea that "discussion will at times [be?] related to > issues more important to users in North America" is tempting. But possibly > divisive, or worse, discriminatory. > The mailing list in question is open to anybody to subscribe to and (once it accumulates traffic), its archives will be visible to anybody. To raise questions about discriminatory intent or outcomes before it fairly gets off the ground, is at best premature. I will presume that you are raising this concern in good faith, but request and expect that you extend the same presumption of good faith in turn. > Koha is open source *software*, and while translations, char sets that > transcend UTF-8, whatever, may occasionally be nationalistic, why another > list? > My general view on proposals for new mailing lists is that if a group of people want one, they should be allowed to start it and announce it. A new list might not generate much, or any traffic -- but in that case, it's no great loss of time to have set it up. A new list might generate a lot of traffic -- in which case it signals that there was pent-up demand for conversation that for whatever reason the existing lists did not serve. Or in this case, it might simply be a quiet list devoted to organizing a conference -- which would be fine. But as long as the lists are open and publicly archived, I say let a thousand flowers bloom. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: [email protected] direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
