[Koha-devel] support for Koha in France

[nicolas morin]

Hello,

 

I am working along with Paul Poulain to get support for Koha in France. I recently tried to lobby the French national school for librarianship into supporting Koha. One of their department sounds interested : the Research department conducts researches in librarianship and information sciences. But the thing is : they might be willing to put money into the development of features that clearly are not what most common ILS provide, but not to put money on, say, MARC development. That makes sense for them, since they are a research department.

But what Koha needs most, I think, is money to help develop the "usual" features : MARC, Z3950, etc... So : could we come up with something we might be interested in, that would also interest them, a feature at the cutting edge of library systems that would also make sense for Koha to develop? For instance, I thought they might be interested in a system that is truly multilingual, were you can store data in arabic, english, french, chinese, whatever; an Opac you can search in all these languages... It's the only example I could come up with.

Any other idea? Any input welcome...

Nicolas