On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 COURYHOUSE@aol.com wrote:

Actually koha would be a good niche consulting market.

I think it would be, and I hope we can stack up a variety of folks interested in supporting it to go this route. It would be good to see the improvements in stability that would come out of people being paid to support it (and develop it for that matter).

Dynix!! Oh my... Glendale public library system uses that thing! from what I understand there is a a replacement for it now.. it was amazing in it's day though, the system they had prior to that had no key word search.... I was in the tech services office the day one of the gals came back in to tell everyone how neat keyword search was. The maint fees on dynix are pretty high from what I understand on a yearly basis...

My understanding is that most commercial products have pretty heavy maintenance fees.

the openbook product or whatever the are calling it now .... well it is interesting to see if they actually pull it off this time... the fellow in charge is really bright on library methodology was former head of tech services for city of Seattle.. so conceptually he should be able to come up with something to please the market, although I think he has to pay programmers to implementing it grovel for grants.. etc etc etc. do not think he is a code writer.....

it is a pity he did not team up with the effort here... I have the feeling in his area he would put us all to shame....

/me nods

Funny story, they were going to come out with the technical beta on the product and were supposed to have the instructions finished and the files posted by one afternoon.... They all blew the day off to go to a baseball game..... meanwhile there were a bunch of folk out there (including myself) waiting to download this thing and no code to download!

Well, the next afternoon the files wee up and the install instructions had so many flaws in them unless you did some deductive reasoning it would not have worked at all. What an evening of self abuse that was! ( I was starting to feel like the cdk pearl fellow)

ouch

do you currently have a school you are trying to help automate?

not at the moment, though i'm helping out with a couple of cases (pro bono) -pate

Ed!

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Subj:Re: aah! a linux consultant! Date:6/18/2002 10:07:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time From:<A HREF="mailto:pate@eylerfamily.org">pate@eylerfamily.org</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com">COURYHOUSE@aol.com</A> Sent from the Internet

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 COURYHOUSE@aol.com wrote:

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aah! a LINUX consultant! Heh did a google on patefamily! checked out your site ! now I guess the question is what is your interest in the library system? Is this to be an extension of consulting efforts?

hmm, linux consultant feels kind of limiting. I see myself as more of an open-ended IT consultant (I'm currently doing a lot of work with AIX and Solaris).

As to my interest in library systems, it's a long standing thing. I've always loved libraries, and worked for Dynix for a bit (many years ago). I've kept my eye out for a free library system since I first read the GNU request for one (in '93 or so), and have hoped to get involved with it. Lo and behold, I found Koha and got involved.

As to my intents. I'm still looking into things. I'll stay involved with the larger Koha community and do my best to see it succeed. Given the right answers to the questions I'm asking (myself, other developers, Katipo, and libraries) I may get involved with a commercial venture working with Koha. If someone were to offer me money to subsidize my current efforts, that'd be fine too. ;)

-pate

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Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC