Danny has a post on his blog that I feel needs to be repeated here - and all over the web. A the Koha conference and Koha Dev weekend, we heard that ther are still some positions open in the Koha community and they are very important positions.

Quality Assurance manager(s), to review all patches that are sent in to uphold a particular level of quality among the Koha code base. It was suggested that perhaps this be a funded position through an organization or the KUDOS user group since it would take a significant amount of time. It was also suggested that if a QA manager can not be found that developers do more peer review and sign-off on each others patches.

Bug wrangler(s), to review the bugs at http://bugs.koha.org and make sure that old bugs are closed and all bugs are valid. The number of open bugs listed at the Koha bugzilla site is currently 827.

Funding or development of core code re-factoring, to clean existing Koha structure, make the entire development process more efficient, and increase code speed and readability. It is hard to find a specific library to want to sponsor an enhancement that would be something that only takes place behind the scenes, so it was suggested that this may fall to a group like the KUDOS user group.

There are several roles that people play in supporting open source, my role (aside from being an open source evangelist) is the Koha Documentation Manager - a role that I learned I’m stuck in until I fall down hehe. If you like the ideas behind open source or want to make a switch in your library the best way to start is to join in and help the community out!

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