[Koha-devel] to Garry Collum

[Nicole Engard]

You rock!!! :) Thanks so much for giving back and joining the community :)

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Nicole C. Engard
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Garry Collum<gcollum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Paul and Galen,
>
> I appreciate the feedback.
>
> I am the System's Manager at Kenton County Public Library in Kentucky.
>  We are just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.  We have a system
> of 3 libraries, that do around 2 million circulations per year.  We
> started looking at ILS' a few months ago just to see what's available
> out there.
>
> I have a Master's in Library Science and a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in
> Art History, both from the University of North Texas, but I also have
> many hours of college credit in Computer Science.  I also have Solaris
> and Redhat certifications pinned on my wall.  I worked as a Reference
> Librarian in both academic and public libraries until I got into
> systems work at Harris County Public Library in Houston, about 8 years
> ago.   I got tired of the Houston commute and moved to Kentucky about
> 6 years ago.
>
> My attendance at Kohacon spurred my interest in Koha.  My only real
> incentive is that I enjoy working in Koha and it's my way of giving
> back.  I've been using open source ever since I can remember, if you
> stretch the meaning of open source to include the Commodore 64
> programs that were published in PC Magazine where you typed in
> thousands of data statements, but I never really contributed to it. My
> contributions are really an extension of my librarian philosophy.  No
> one becomes a librarian for the money.  The work I do in Koha is in my
> spare time, so I don't see myself doing any large scale development at
> this time.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:28 AM, paul POULAIN<paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
>> Hello Garry,
>>
>> I see your commits since a few months (april), but I don't remember
>> seeing any introduction here, so I ask: could you pls introduce
>> yourself, and tell us "why" you work on Koha ?
>> You have now 58 patches accepted in Koha. Most of them are improving the
>> overall quality of Koha (ie : inconsistencies fixes, like unused
>> variables, html fixes ...) Do you plan to work on some features, or
>> you'll just continue improving the quality?
>>
>> anyway, I want to express my thanks for the 58 previous patches, and my
>> hopes there will be many many more ;-)
>> --
>> Paul POULAIN
>> http://www.biblibre.com
>> Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc
>> Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
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