[Linux-aus] cancelling membership of Linux Australia; NLA losing bookmarks when they migrated to FOLIO

[Russell Coker]

On Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:06:14 AEDT Dwight Walker via linux-aus wrote:
> From Linux Australia I got that any software commercial or open source
> could have stuffed up this migration and lost bookmarks like that and not
> to complain and be glad NLA have migrated to open source software not
> commercial software.

You had a disagreement with one person who is involved with running Linux 
Australia.  It's probably the case that I havd had a more serious disagreement 
with the majority of members of the LA Council at one time or another.  It 
doesn't make me want to leave LA.  I will remain here to correct them the next 
time they are wrong!  ;)

> That was not right in my view. People are allowed to complain. FOLIO is
> difficult software to program or setup compared to Koha and I feel they
> picked the wrong library software and should have picked Koha instead and
> saved this whole issue by writing SQL reports which are easy to do in Koha
> not FOLIO.

Sounds reasonable, if I was a sysadmin there I'd do something like that or if 
management didn't let me send everyone their data then I'd email someone's 
records to them if they complained enough.

Regarding LA membership.  When a company charges monthly fees and is unable to 
process unsubscribe requests before a billing period that's a big problem.  
For a free organisation the vast majority of people who leave have no great 
need to do so in a hurry and just remain inactive members until the next time 
they do a membership check.  For the rare cases of someone wanting to leave 
sooner than that (which probably happens less than once a year - AFAIK it 
didn't happen during the year I was on council) sending an email seems 
reasonable.

Finally there is a range of opinions within LA and the various subcommittees 
are run by people with different ideas.  There is no requirement to be an LA 
member to participate in Flounder meetings.

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