[Koha-devel] Koha Foundation

[Kyle Hall]

Just wondering, does anyone on the last have any idea how to set up a
foundation? I was thinking maybe the mozilla foundation might be one to
pattern after (of course, they happen to have some big money from Google and
such).

Kyle

On 3/22/06, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
>
> Well, opting to join another group would be one way to go but
> for the kinds of things I'd like the Koha Foundation to do it
> probably wouldn't be ideal. For instance, it'd be neat if we
> had a collaborative record-sharing system for Koha libraries
> that they could subscribe too (nominal fee just to keep it going),
> submit records to and use records from other libraries. That would
> be much easier to set up with an organization that _we_ were
> running so that _we_ could make purchase decisions, etc.
>
> Also, I'd really like to go after some grant money -- at least
> in the US, there are lots of non-profit grants available for
> library projects that could really help us out in finding
> resources for development projects. As it stands, the process
> for getting a grant would be too difficult as we'd have to
> go through a library or other non-profit to qualify ...
>
> Just my two cents ... what do others thing about those ideas?
>
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