[Koha-devel] Koha Foundation

[Paul POULAIN]

Andres Tarallo a écrit :

> Maybe because I see how things are beeing done in Latin American. Most
> people dedicated to efforts like fundations do lobby and advocacy, but
> contribute little or nothing to software development.  Developers in
> koha contribute for diferent reasons, but many of the core developers
> work with Koha because they earn a leaving with koha. This last fact has
> made an important advance in koha, a terrific progress in the last
> years.  In my latin american biased vision I don't see that a fundation
> could help developers here.

Thanks for terrific progress in the last years ;-)
A foundation won't probably help a lot developers, but, as a developer, 
  I don't see Koha as "my" property. I'm happy to earn money with it, I 
hope earning more, but I really want that libraries don't use Koha 
because of me but because of the product and the project.

So, I think the foundation is something important for libraries, not for 
developpers. Even if it is proposed by katipo/liblime/me (seems we all 
had the idea at the same moment !), it's for libraries, not for us.

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)