At first, I thought this was a rant about splinter groups, regionalism, and exclusionary tactics and was going to be a bit snarky and say "what is the problem with people in regions getting together to discuss Koha?" "Why does it have to be world-wide?"
After all, it's hard for some people to travel-especially librarians on limited or strapped budgets these days. Wouldn't more information sharing and the opportunity for non-koha libraries to libraries to learn things without having to travel half-way around the world be a good thing? Then when I realized that it was really just about the name, I thought, "hey...what about REALLY regional groups like the old CODI (Customers of Dynix) used to do, and break out into Koha Users group Northeast, or Koha Users Southwest, etc., etc? As long as everyone shares the information at the end, what is the problem? Maybe more libraries would jump to Koha bandwagon if they had access to more information. Anyway...here's my .02 cents.... KohAmerica KohaAmerica KohaAmerican Users Group KohAmerican Users Group Northeast... KohaAmerican Users Group....well, you get the picture. -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alford, Paul Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:49 PM To: Stebbings, Wade; Christopher Davis; Koha; partners; KohaNA Subject: Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA "Kohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten" - Lilo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stebbings, Wade Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 11:24 AM To: Christopher Davis; Koha; partners; KohaNA Subject: Re: [ByWater Partners] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA Just run the letters together: Kohana This is also the name of a PHP-based web development framework, but that shouldn¹t be too confusing. <wade Walker Art Center On 12/18/15, 10:19 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Christopher Davis" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Good Day Everyone, > >During its first annual meeting, the scope of the Koha North America >Users Group (Koha NA) was to form an organization to discuss and >support Koha issues native to the U.S. Although everyone is cordially >invited to every Koha NA meeting, all face-to-face meetings will be >held within the contiguous U.S. to ensure that U.S. Koha users have a >better chance to attend them (for many, travel outside of the U.S. is >prohibited). > >In light of recent discussion on the Koha listservs regarding its >extent, the Koha NA has voted to change its name to reflect its scope >and we are asking for your help. Please reply to this message with your >name suggestions and then join us at our next online meeting to vote >for them (Wed, Jan 13th, 2016 @ 11 am Central Time). > >All the best, > >Christopher Davis >Secretary, Koha NA >_______________________________________________ >Partners mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.bywatersolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/partners _______________________________________________ Partners mailing list [email protected] http://lists.bywatersolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/partners _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
