[Koha-devel] Koha Plone Contest

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Roberto Allende <rover at menttes.com> wrote:
> Joshua Ferraro escribió:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Roberto Allende <rover at menttes.com> wrote:
>>
>>> MJ Ray escribió:
>>>
>>>> "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  So Koha community, how shall we proceed?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I suggest:-
>>>>
>>>> 1. Publish the voting results for comment here and to the entrants;
>>>>
>>>> 2. Allow the entrants two weeks to react and maybe update their
>>>> entries and/or suggest a way forwards (vote again and include the
>>>> Plone default template (and Kea?) as "None of the Above"-style
>>>> fallback options?  extend until a certain date? pay? walk away?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes it would work if the koha community shows a little bit of commitment
>>> with the contest and this is not happening at the moment. People in my
>>> team ask why "should i spend more time in something that even the
>>> organizators don't move". It's very difficult for me to convince anyone
>>> with the low answer we had from Koha community.
>>>
>>> This decreases your credibility and is very disappointing for us and
>>> because the time invested on the contest.
>>>
>> I can understand your frustration. I think the ultimate problem is that we
>> didn't plan for a scenario in which none of the entries were liked by
>> the general community, so that led to stagnation.
>>
>> Also, just to remind you, the original organizer of the project had a couple
>> months of illness; and the fact that we were so behind on the 3.0 release
>> didn't help either.
>>
>> Roberto, would you and the other two contestants be satisfied with each
>> getting 1/3 of the award money, ie, splitting it three ways?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
> Hello
>
> I think is ok. The most important thing for me is to close this issue
> because there are non-community people involved here.
OK, great. If the three contestants would send me their full names
and a mailing I'll make sure this gets taken care of promptly.

Cheers,

Josh

> Kind Regards
> r.
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