I agree with what Mr. Mishra says. We should keep the cost of such workshops to a minimum. One can always have sponsors to meet some expenses. We had organized a two-day workshops on Koha, in 2006 and 2007and other open source softwares where we charged Rs. 500/- in all because it was a workshop on open source -- open for all.

In fact many of the Library Open source software can easily be downloaded and installed by the librarians with a help of a computer person. If you do not have a computer person in your institute, then one may have to pay some minimum charges to get installed. Once installed it is not very difficult to develop a library system b'cos all of us are versed with the library fundamentals. I am sure there must be some open source forum of Library professionals already existing where one can address their problems and get it solved. If not, we can create one such forum. For Koha, there is already an international forum where u can address your problems and there are so many users of Koha and the developers of Koha who will answer your questions and give solutions.

On 17 Feb 2009 11:26:52 -0000, vinod mishra <vinod_librarian@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Dear professionals open source software is a kind of revolution for the benefit of the society perticularly in developing and underdeveloped country. These softwares are free of cost but institutions are organising the workshop on these softwares and charging very high cost which is very difficult to afford by individuals.
So it must be avoided and the cost of such a workshop should be minimum. The current example is DELNET who is organising workshop on KOHA by charging 3000-3500, i think it is too much.Such workshop should not be organised for the financial benefits perticularly by the Govt. organisations.

Vinod Kumar Mishra
IIT Kanpur.

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