Tag Archives: community

Event for creative co-operatives

2011-02-24 by mjr

Last week, I was at this event in Bristol where we heard some interesting stories from other creative co-ops. I think the oldest had been running for about the same length as time as our co-op, but with a bit … Continue reading →

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Hi, Why Are You Doing?

2010-08-26 by mjr

In a great post a few days ago, Jono asks why you are doing free software and reminds us to remember it. It’s quite easy to lose sight of our goals and motivations while working on the day-to-day tasks. This … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Koha-Community.org

2010-02-03 by mjr

At last night’s #koha community hand-over meeting, it was felt that the LL/PTFS transfer could easily delay community control of the previous koha website for 3 months, so HLT should register a fan site for community members to put the … Continue reading →

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Koha Blogs Page Back Online

2010-01-01 by mjr

The Koha Community Blogs was broken over Christmas. It’s now back online and using the same collection of feeds as the microblogging services. A full list of Koha Social Networks is on the wiki.

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Concentration, Community and Cooperation

2009-09-28 by mjr

I read the news about the launch of Ubuntu User by Linux New Media AG with some sadness. I believe that free software is stronger because of the informal cooperation between different distributions that usually do different jobs. It lets … Continue reading →

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Why is public and charity money paying for the private sector’s marketing?

2009-04-08 by mjr

The workshop I went to recently and the ICT Champions in general (“Website Under Development” – release early, anyone?) seem to be funded by public and charity money. As I mentioned, the worst thing was all the needless promotion of … Continue reading →

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Making infrastructure organisations more resilient Taunton 20 March 2009

2009-03-24 by mjr

Last Friday, I spent most of the day at this NAVCA ICT event in Taunton. (There’s another similar one in York this Friday if you’re interested.) The event was a sandwich, with a Steve Bridger social media session as the … Continue reading →

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What’s an Interest Group? An Association? A Foundation?

2009-01-20 by mjr

I thought that Koha: Users and Developers of Open Source (KUDOS) and Koha Libre Association (KohaLA) were both Koha Interest Groups, but Nicole’s post about ALA Midwinter makes me think I’ve got it wrong: “KUDOS (KOHA Users and Developers of … Continue reading →

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