Cost effectiveness of Open Source development for Horowhenua Library Trust.
In 1983 I was quoted $3,000 to have a wedding dress made by a bridal shop in Wellington – no way my Mum could afford that dress. We would have to make it ourselves. So we went into Fitzroy’s, an old fashioned draper's shop in Levin, and within minutes of hearing that I was marrying a local lad, “Nancy’s boy”, we were surrounded by a clutch of woman: comparing fabrics, discussing how to adapt the paper pattern, which lace, what size seed pearls etc … I’m sure you get the picture. That dress turned out heaps better than anything I was thinking of – and saved us a fortune too! That was my first grownup experience of crowd-sourcing, ‘group think, community consultation, collaborative design – call it what you will. What I learnt that day was the power of community ownership, adaptation and the sheer power of collaboration. These are key concepts in the open source world.
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- 1. Providing an excellent community driven library service in Horowhenua since 1997.
- 10. Loans
- 11. Reading history
- 12. Reserves
- 13. Recommendations
- 14. Account
- 15. Notifications
- 16. Lists
- 17. Google Books
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- 23. Public Libraries
- 25. Other libraries
- 26. Koha for Consortia MASSCAT Plano ISD SEKLS INCOLSA NEKLS CKLS ASCC
- 44. Comparison $1m $865 k - $1m Plus inflation $24k pa Plus inflation $40 k pa Plus inflation $225 - $400k Other $165 k $3.6 k pa (for 5 yrs) $8 k pa $67 k Koha Savings 1999-2009 Comms Per Annum Year 1
- 48. Providing an excellent community driven library service in Horowhenua since 1997.
Editor's Notes
- Does anyone hear remember Fitzroys? It was a drapers up at the north set of lights, early ‘80s. In 1983 I was engaged to be married and the dress I had been quoted $3,000 to have a dress made by a bridal shop in Wellington – no way we could afford that dress. We would have to make it ourselves. So we went into Fitzroy’s, and within minutes of hearing that I was marrying a local lad: “Nancy’s boy” we were surrounded in a clutch of woman. Comparing fabrics, discussing how to adapt the paper pattern, which lace, what size seed pearls etc … I’m sure you get the picture. You know that dress turned out heaps better than anything I was thinking of – and saved us a fortune too! That was really my first real life experience of crowd-sourcing, ‘group think, community consultation, collaborative design – call it what you will. What I learnt that day was the power of community ownership, adaptation and the sheer power of collaboration. These are key concepts in the open source world.
- Koha is the Open source integrated library management system which we developed in 1999. It has an active community surrounding with many, many developers regularl.y improving the code.
- Imported content from a bunch of places Syndetics, library thing, google books (digitized books), amazon,
- Other includes corporate, law, medical, music, museum, national, research, special, state and theological libraries.
- Leads neatly into Kete
- Kete – a local solution to a local problem
- LSyncNZ – licence fees and support contract per year for a City library system is MORE than a whole-country Koha solution developed for LynSyncNZ
- LSyncNZ – licence fees and support per year for a City library system is MORE than a whole-country Koha solution for LynSyncNZ