[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen web page for paid support vendors

[June Caola-Stokoe]

This IS a great discussion. My thoughts veer in the direction of Open Source philosophy and how such a directory helps/hinders its' advocacy. In the interest of efficiency, it seems to make sense to have a place for organizations to express their dis/satisfaction with various enterprises or simply observe strengths and weaknesses.


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Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 4:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen web page for paid support vendors

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>

[snip]

>
> Defining Evergreen services: I'm open to not defining what an 
> Evergreen service is and to see how it goes. My personal preference is 
> that Evergreen support providers not be confused with third-party 
> services that integrate with Evergreen, even if that third-party 
> vendor needed to learn a lot of the code to get their service to work 
> with Evergreen. Using Rogan's example, I don't think people come to 
> this page looking for blue tooth scanners, so those vendors shouldn't be listed on this page.
>

Just to clarify, Iwas specifically /not/ talking about the bluetooth scanner-type example, about which I agree 100%.  If the consensus is that actively involved 3rd party vendors should be separated from direct Evergreen service providers, that's fine, but I just want to be clear about the sort of provider I was referring to.

Were I looking at Random OSS Project X's web site, I'd prefer to have one "folks I can pay (after vetting) to get stuff done" page, which seems to be how ours is used.  I'd include 3rd party products from vendors with "skin in the game" in that set.

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