Exactly, we need to be front and centre in the Free and Open Source Software world.
Hence we need open data, or we are going down the do as I say not as I do road. Which is about the worst marketing any FOSS project can ever do. Chris On 14 December 2016 5:10:18 AM NZDT, Nathan Curulla <n...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >I hear what you are all saying about this and agree that it would be >better to roll our own, but here is the thing: Hea is not user friendly >at all and the Wiki is not a good marketing tool because it is not >pretty (no offense on either of these). If you really want to market >Koha you need to look at these things from the eyes of a non-developer, >non-tech oriented librarian. If you do that you will see that these two >tools are not optimal, especially in comparison to something that >larger companies that Koha competes with are going to put out. > >It is good to hear that you want to clean things up and re-invent the >wheel, but actually doing that in a reasonable amount of time in a >competitive environment is another thing. If someone has a concrete >proposal for an attractive, sortable, searchable, easy to submit to >option on the website for libraries to put information in than I think >that would be great and I will do everything to help that I can, but >who is going to do it and when? With products like Folio coming Koha >needs to be front and center in the open source library world and >showing the world how many people use it is a no brainer (and should be >easy) in terms of ways to do just that. > >So the options are that someone volunteers to create this interface >(ByWater staff can help with this if given the access and permission, >but we aren’t going to do it alone) with a completion target of end of >Feb. 2017, or we link out to a third party site that already has the >content. If we don’t hear from anyone about the former we are going to >go with the latter. We need to move on this kind of stuff soon or Koha >will be left in the dust in the coming emergence of open source in the >library world. We need to become more accessible to those who don’t >code, otherwise we are playing into the misconception that open source >is for developers only. > >Respectfully, > >-Nate > >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz >https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
