Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
Hi all,
Over the past few weeks we've discussed the idea of forming a Koha Foundation -- a non-profit organization for Koha. I'd like to open this topic up to koha-devel to hear what your reasons are for wanting such an organization, as well as how you think it should be set up (and where). Any takers?
I already said to joshua I think it's a good time to build a NPO now. What could be it's goal ? "provide open source solutions for all tasks a library does daily". What could be it's services : * coordinate user requests ? i'm not sure, as we have some companies already doing this. And I would not see the projet slowed by too much administrations. * secure the Koha name. For sure a good idea ! "koha" MUST be a non-profit term. katipo as well as liblime as well as me don't use "koha" as their business name. And it must be kept as it ! * promote OSS solutions in libraries. * be owner of the copyright. plus some technical services : * provide things like backup servers, opensearchportal for all koha installs, ... That's a 1st draft of my ideas. To be investigated during KohaCon ! -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)