After seeing some of the cool things people can do with other ILS's and how negative developers are about III, there's always the chance they might decide to open up a bit more and engage with code4lib types (we can always dream).
And if that doesn't work, maybe the Ian Walls' talk (Becoming Truly Innovative: Migrating from Millennium to Koha) will motivate them...
-Esme
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On Mar 4, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Jill Ellern wrote:
> We tried to get some of the ILS's interested...with little success. But how knows...I did some heavy promotion to III this year...(despite the many "--"s, she promised to talk to headquarters) so perhaps they might help some next year...
>
> Jill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Joseph
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals
>
> No need to be concerned about the vendors: they're the same suspects who
> sponsored C4L10.
> Paul
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Ya'aqov Ziso <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> .... also, I can assure you that to help keep registration fees low we'll
>> be
>> leaning on our vendors ...
>> =========
>> Who would be these vendors? Seems CODE4LIB (bringing in creative, leading
>> edge, OpenSource ideas where ILS have monolithically reigned) are the bad
>> dream of ILS vendors. WorldCat DeveNet/Research may make an exception, but
>> will it be $$$$$ufficient?
>> Yašaqov
>>
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