On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Wagner, Jane <jwagner@ptfs.com> wrote:
John Yokley, our CEO, posted the following message to the main Koha list. He is not subscribed to koha-devel, so he asked me to forward it to this list.
I have been subscribed to the various Koha lists for some time, since I joined PTFS. I have 20 years' experience in the ILS world, 13 of them as a Sirsi system administrator and programmer at the U.S. Courts, NASA, and University of Virginia Health Sciences Library. Several of you already know me from that environment. I haven't posted anything yet because I am still learning the system. I thought it would be a courtesy to do my homework before posting newbie questions either here or to the main Koha list. However, I certainly plan to actively participate in the community, as do our developers. From my years in the Sirsi world, I know how valuable a resource a good user/developer community can be, and I look forward to building some good friendships with you. When I was a brand-new Sirsi admin, I got a lot of help from the older sites, and I have always tried to pay that debt forward by helping other sites in turn. I think personal relationships will be even more valuable in the open source world than in the vendor world.
I look forward to a lot of good conversations!
Hi Jane Welcome to the Koha community :) It's a fun place to be, we have developers, translators, documenters, and users in every single continent. (Well maybe not antartica, but who knows? :)) Id encourage you to jump on irc sometime, irc.katipo.co.nz #koha. Most of the developers hand out there and with our different timezones, there's usually always someone there. Also, I recommend taking a look at the rfc's on wiki.koha.org. And the bugs in bugs.koha.org. Patches for bugfixes are accepted with huge gratitude :) (I won't address the email you forwarded in this forum, as I think the community has already made clear it's current issues with your employer.) Once again welcome, and I look forward to communicating with you more in the future. Chris