What’s your full name (middle name too)?
John David Bavousett
What’s your job title?
I’m an “Implementation Specialist” with LibLime.
Did you (or do you) have a nickname?
I went by “The PegLeg” for a longish time, as I have an artificial limb.
What’s your favorite color?
Blue.
What’s your favorite food or meal?
Anything that I don’t have to chase down and kill first. Seriously, I enjoy a lot of different ethnic foods, particularly Chinese and (being in the Southwest) Mexican.
What’s your favorite word (keep it clean)?
“perforce”
Do you have any pets?
My other job is Chief of Staff for His Lordship, the mighty feline Captain Midnight. He approves heartily of my job with LibLime, as it means that I am home to spoil him a lot.
Why did you want to work with LibLime?
In my years in the library business, I’ve watched libraries suffer over and over from budget cuts, as governing bodies marginalize and ignore the needs of the library. At the same time, traditional library technology vendors keep demanding more and more of the budget.
LibLime is just not like that–our leveraging of open source technology lets us save libraries a bunch of cash over other vendors, and still provide top-shelf service and support for a great menu of library applications. What libraries do is critically important to our society, and always will be. At LibLime, I get to be a part of satisfying that crucial need, at reasonable cost to the library.
Plus, as I tell my friends locally, at forty, I finally found my dream job: I’m doing something I believe in, that I like, that I’m good at, with great people, getting paid a fair wage, and work from home. What’s not to like?
What did you know about open source before taking on this job? What have you learned since taking the job?
At my previous employer, we used a number of open source products to support our business, and I’ve been a big supporter of the concept for a long time, though I had not participated in any projects directly. At this job, I have, and have learned a lot about how collaborative development works, and is, frequently, faster and better than closed-box development methods.
What’s at the top of your wishlist for the next version of Koha?
Better installation documentation? Guess that means I need to write it, since that’s what I do all day. 
Having come from a mixed-type consortium, I think it’s important to pay some attention to the needs of consortia, and make sure that we put in as much flexibility for them as we can, particularly in the very complex areas of holds and reciprocal-borrowing arrangements.
If you had all of the skills, time and money, what open source application would you like to develop?
I’d like to work on a good management software for collectors, particularly postage-stamp collectors like me. Something web-based, so you could be at a dealer, and still have access to your collection on a mobile device.
What are your top three favorite websites?
What would you do if you won the lottery?
Take a day off work. Maybe two. Seriously, I would set up a couple of small endowments to some charities I believe in, and do some house remodeling.
Are you an organized desk person or a messy desk person?
Organized, insanely so. I’m mildly obsessive-compulsive, in that respect, and I’ve had bosses tell me to quit trying to get anything done and clean my desk–once things get too cluttery, productivity falls off almost to zero.
Anything else you want our readers to know about you?
I just recently started blogging on my own…my quest to lose some weight, my exploration of Zen, woodworking, competitive chili-cooking, stamp collecting, Masonry and many other things are all fair topics.
