[Koha-devel] RE: [oss4lib-discuss] ALA/June 16th: Automate Your Library for Un der $1000

[Pat Eyler]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Dave Bretthauer wrote:

> Hi Pat,
>
> > For what it's worth, the core koha development effort right now is
> > centered in four locations, New Zealand, the Pacific
> > Northwest (Oregon,
> > Washington, and British Columbia), the Eastern Seaboard
> > (Washington, DC),
> > and France.  Maybe one (or more) of us will be close enough
> > to make it to
> > the next ALA/LITA.
>
> This is news to me. And good news, too.
>
> But let me get this straight: this wasn't the case last summer (when we
> planned this year's program), was it? In any event, I hadn't heard about it;
> hope you know there was no slight intended. 8^)

No offense taken.  And no, the wider spread and formalization of Koha
development is a fairly recent development.

>
> If you know of anyone involved in Koha development who'll be at ALA in
> Atlanta, please ask them to try to make it to our OSSIG business meeting,
> Saturday June 15 2-4pm at the Hilton in the Roosevelt room. The IG
> leadership will be changing and I don't want to speak for them, but I
> suspect the new leaders of the group will be looking for programming ideas
> for Toronto (next ALA) and Houston (next LITA). These typcially have to be
> done a year in advance because of ALA's and LITA's plnning cycles. Also, I
> don't think anyone connected with Koha has ever been to one of our meetings.
>

I'll bring it up on our development list -- in fact, I'll just Cc: them on
this email.  I don't think anyone will be available for this trip, I'm
more hopeful for Toronto and Houston.  Being a group of volunteers (mostly
not attached to US libraries) makes this a bit difficult, but we shall
see.

-pate

> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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