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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 12/02/2015 22:14, Marshall Breeding
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Some
personnel FTE numbers from last year can be seen on the
tables from the Library Systems Report:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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href="http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/sites/americanlibrariesmagazine.org/files/content/Charts_MarshallBreeding.pdf">http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/sites/americanlibrariesmagazine.org/files/content/Charts_MarshallBreeding.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The
numbers are for the company overall, and not limited to
efforts expended on specific products or projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I 100000% agree with what other have said ! We differ so much from
proprietary vendors that comparing is a hazardous thing. Do you have
the answer to the following question: "is 2km bigger or smaller than
3kg ?"<br>
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Additional thought: I feel that, once again, I have missed the
"marketing speech" in my answer (3FTE). I should have said 10 !<br>
Marshall, what you must understand is that we've no marketing guy in
our project (at least on koha-devel mailing lists). Most of us (all
of us ?) don't care of being bigger/more beautiful/higher/... than
others. We focus on product and development. What we love is
hacking, not selling/promoting.<br>
The consequence is that you'll compare numbers given by marketing
guys vs numbers given by tecchie guys (I'm not implying that
marketing guys lie. But we don't have the same way of
understanding/explaining things. Once again 2km vs 3kg... )<br>
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Just one example: at the beginning of BibLibre, we were counting
"Aix Marseille university" as one library ("it's obvious, that's one
contract"). Then we realized that other were counting differently.
So now we count Aix Marseille as 57 libraries ("it's obvious, it's a
university with 57 different libraries").<br>
But as we're still honest, scientists, and we prefer valid &
verifiable numbers. So we usually say "BibLibre support more than
500 libraries through 100+ contracts" ;-)<br>
<br>
Another example : compare my presentation made at KohaCon and the
one made by Alvet (from Ebsco) : one was basic, the other was fancy.
We will probably never reach such a quality in terms of fanciness.
That's probably a weakness, but I'm sure that's also a strength: we
want nothing less than changing the way ppl do business ;-) 2kg and
3km ...<br>
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OK, stopping to behave as the "old wise man", back to working ;-)<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, expert du logiciel libre pour les bibliothèques
BibLibre, Open Source software for libraries expert</pre>
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