Thanks to all who responded with their helpful suggestions and comments regarding our Koha page on the Interleaf website. http://www.interleaf.ie/Products-and-Services/Library-Management-Systems/Koha
I guess we might have been a bit subtle with our links to the community. But there you go - us Irish are a very subtle race :-) I have adopted some of the suggestions and made the links to the Koha community site a bit more obvious. Looking forward to getting listed and growing the number of Koha sites in this part of the world. Regards, Martin McGovern Interleaf Technology 55-57 Southern Cross Business Park Bray Co. Wicklow Facebook Twitter [email protected] www.interleaf.ie +353-1-2865855 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, Interleaf Technology does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Cook Sent: 30 June 2014 03:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider I also struggled to find the link back to the Koha community, although I notice that it is in the same style as the other links on the page. While I think this has web accessibility/usability issues, I suppose it's no less visible than the other links on the page. Personally, I don't really like the description of the community or the history, but that might just be in regard to my own preferences. I would probably include a reference to the Horowhenua Library Trust as the original sponsor, and make the reference to the Koha Community a bit more obvious. Rather than saying "With a large community of active users, the emphasis is on sharing information across all Koha users", I might say something like "Koha is developed internationally by the Koha Community [link here] where the emphasis is on collaboration and cooperation." With the exception of the late mention of "Over 120 developers world-wide" and an earlier mention of "support companies", it sort of sounds like the "community" might just be Interleaf's client base. Another idea might be to replace the following "Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies worldwide. Developed in New Zealand, the first system went live in 2000. There are over 10,000 systems in operation world-wide" with something like "Originally developed by Katipo for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand, the first system went live in 2000. There are now many systems in operation in many languages on every continent, except perhaps Antarctica. The Koha Community [link here] (a global community of libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies) now develops Koha collectively and provides two major releases a year and maintenance releases every month." Like I said though, that might just be personal preference. That's what I think when I think about "Companies must show their support of the Koha Community". I think Interleaf does add a visible link (even if it is a bit tough to spot) and genuinely offer Koha services, so it's probably all right to list them. I'll leave that one up to the volunteers who manage the listing. I am curious how it was decided there are 10,000+ Koha systems (I'm sure there are, and I think I've seen that number before, but the actual number of Koha systems is a mystery to all, I think) and that there are 120+ developers (I believe that docs/history.txt states that there have been 246 developers as of the writing of this email, so while 120+ is true...it just seems an odd number to choose recently). I don't know if it's worthwhile to revisit the rules about what constitutes support for the community by adding a visible link. After other issues regarding the Koha support vendor listings, I would be curious to find out how many people chose their vendor based on that page... In any case, +1 for adding Interleaf to the listing based on the existing rules. -David -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, 30 June 2014 10:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 104, Issue 60 Send Koha mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." Today's Topics: 1. FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider (Martin McGovern) 2. Re: FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider (Paul A) 3. Re: FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider (BWS Johnson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:17:37 +0000 From: Martin McGovern <[email protected]> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Subject: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We would like to resubmit our application to be included in the list of Koha support providers. We have been providing Koha support for some time now and have over 75 Koha customers. We have a link to http://www.koha-community.org on our main Koha web page so we are fulfilling our obligations as per the "How to get listed" page on koha-community.org. Regards, Martin McGovern Interleaf Technology -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin McGovern Sent: 09 February 2014 18:08 To: '[email protected]' Subject: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider Interleaf Technology was established in 1998 and have been providing technology to libraries since. We provide expertise in all aspects of technology in libraries from Rfid systems to full Library Management System support. We have recently switched our focus to Open Source Library systems, specifically Koha, and are supporting several customers including special, corporate and academic libraries. And we have a large number of schools operating on a single Koha consortium system. We have completed many data conversions to Koha from a selection of legacy LMS and offer support for hosted or in-house Koha systems. We have development expertise in Koha and expect this activity to grow as we build our Koha customer base. Company Name: Interleaf Technology Ltd Contact Person: Martin McGovern Contact email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Website: www.interleaf.ie<http://www.interleaf.ie> Telephone: +353-1-2865855 Address: 55-57 Southern Cross Business Park Boghall Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow Ireland Regards, Martin McGovern Interleaf Technology This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, Interleaf Technology does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. 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This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, Interleaf Technology does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:26:23 -0400 From: Paul A <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:17 AM 6/29/2014 +0000, Martin McGovern wrote: >[snip] >We have a link to http://www.koha-community.org on our main Koha web >page so we are fulfilling our obligations as per the "How to get >listed" page on koha-community.org. On your page <http://www.interleaf.ie/Products-and-Services/Library-Management-Systems/Ko ha>, the link is there, but pretty well hidden... In "With a large community of active users..." the word 'community' is just a hair different (color: #62667a; compared to color: #131342;) than the rest of the text, and I had to go to "Page source" to find that this was your link. The four other "Koha" links on that page are back to yourself. I (personally, others may have much better eyesight than I do) would suggest that you ask your web designer to review the lack of visibility ... and you could perhaps put an <A HREF> tag around the Koha logo. Best -- Paul ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:52:29 -0700 From: BWS Johnson <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Koha] FW: Request to be added as Koha Support Provider Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Salvete! ??? I saw the link just fine and I consider myself to have olde lady eyes on a crummy monitor at this point. Perhaps you needs turn up the contrast on your own? 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