Steve Wills wrote:
[...] I would propose that we think about a foundation dedicated to managing and perfecting solutions for libraries with a structure that draws from such successful FOSS projects as Elicpse, Sourceforge, and Apache. Such a foundation would be chartered to serve librarian, patron and developer alike without any particular alligence to Koha, Evergreen or whatever else we spawn in the future that we wish to give back to the library community. [...]
Two of the candidates for a non-Koha-specific foundation are the Apache Software Foundation and Horowhenua Library Trust. There is a little more about them on http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=kohafoundation - would either of those fit the bill? Sourceforge is not a FOSS project. It is a proprietary hosting platform service. It was once a hosting service based on a FOSS project, but that changed years ago, provoking creation of many alternatives like Savannah, GNA, BerliOS and more. I like the idea of the survey. It would be good if some of the already-stated desires could be like/dislike/don't-care tickboxes at some point in it. Has anyone time to do it before Tuesday? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef) LMS developer and webmaster at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op