[Koha-devel] FW: [Koha] PTFS Support for the Koha Community

[Chris Cormack]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Wagner,  Jane <jwagner at ptfs.com> wrote:
> John Yokley, our CEO, posted the following message to the main Koha list.
> He is not subscribed to koha-devel, so he asked me to forward it to this
> list.
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> I have been subscribed to the various Koha lists for some time, since I
> joined PTFS.  I have 20 years' experience in the ILS world, 13 of them as a
> Sirsi system administrator and programmer at the U.S. Courts, NASA, and
> University of Virginia Health Sciences Library.  Several of you already know
> me from that environment.  I haven't posted anything yet because I am still
> learning the system.  I thought it would be a courtesy to do my homework
> before posting newbie questions either here or to the main Koha list.
> However, I certainly plan to actively participate in the community, as do
> our developers.  From my years in the Sirsi world, I know how valuable a
> resource a good user/developer community can be, and I look forward to
> building some good friendships with you.  When I was a brand-new Sirsi
> admin, I got a lot of help from the older sites, and I have always tried to
> pay that debt forward by helping other sites in turn.  I think personal
> relationships will be even more valuable in the open source world than in
> the vendor world.
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> I look forward to a lot of good conversations!
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Hi Jane

Welcome to the Koha community :) It's a fun place to be, we have
developers, translators, documenters, and users in every single
continent. (Well maybe not antartica, but who knows? :))

Id encourage you to jump on irc sometime,  irc.katipo.co.nz #koha.
Most of the developers hand out there and with our different
timezones, there's usually always someone there.

Also, I recommend taking a look at the rfc's on wiki.koha.org. And the
bugs in bugs.koha.org. Patches for bugfixes are accepted with huge
gratitude :)

(I won't address the email you forwarded in this forum, as I think the
community has already made clear it's current issues with your
employer.)

Once again welcome, and I look forward to communicating with you more
in the future.

Chris