[Koha-devel] Vote NOW for the Koha Community Website Theme

[Chris Cormack]

Just a few litte points

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:


>
> Also, please remember, koha.org is a domain name that is owned (it
> was purchased in fact) by LibLime. We are the current stewards of the
> website, just like Katipo was for many years. Katipo decided to maintain
> the last revision of the Koha website using software they wrote (Kete),


Kea is the CMS used to manage  koha.org

>
> why do you nit pick us (LibLime) for wanting to deploy koha.org on
> plone? Our only aim with this move has been to improve and promote the
> Koha community through transparent community participation in the
> maintenance of the website, translation of the website, improved and
> up-to-date documentation.
>
> If I recall correctly MJ, you own a Koha website; I know for sure
> there's another one, koha-fr.org, owned by BibLibre.
>
> >  Is it OK if I remove the false statements and request republication?
> No, because you are implying that your opinion constitutes the
> official koha.org position, and the maintainers of the koha.org's
> decisions about how best to maintain it do not; in fact, as I've pointed
> out before, there is not and never has been an official process for
> determining the community's position on any given decision -- thusfar,
> because we have so few resources as a  community, decisions have
> been made based on who had resources to do what.


>
> Perhaps we're outgrowing our decision-making process and we need
> to explore a more official decision-making process. I'd also like to
> see this list be moderated with some rules of conduct, addressing
> rudeness and general posting guidelines.
>

Id strongly resist moderating for content, other than for spam. Down that
road lies censorship.

>
> The posts I've seen from you lately MJ are reminicent of years previous
> when you were a more active and somewhat negative voice in the Koha
> community; I am offended by your tone and I think you are hurting the
> community's morale, and causing stagnation and indecision.
>
> I think that is also a bit harsh in tone, as was the word 'lies' (loaded
term, probably would have been best not using it MJ)

Chris
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