[Koha-devel] to Garry Collum

[Garry Collum]

Wow!  Thanks all.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Nicole Engard<nicole.engard at liblime.com> wrote:
> You rock!!! :) Thanks so much for giving back and joining the community :)
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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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