Anyone know anything about Library systems?

Drew Jensen <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:21:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.dba.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello list - and hopefully font of information -or- at least leads perhaps..

Actually this email has two parts:

Part One:

Thanks, in large part to the generousness of the folks over at 
WorldLabel.com, OpenOffice.org will be hosting a booth at the American 
Library Associations's national conference. There is information about 
the event available at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010

If there is anyone on the list that would be interested in helping with 
this - most particularly anyone living the Washington DC area that might 
be willing to help out at the booth:
I'm trying to arrange a kick-off type get together on IRC at
irc://freenode/ooousa

Feel free to sign up if you want to get more involved (or just browse 
the channel..)
- and a meeting scheduler at Doodle:
http://doodle.com/8axp46z5svkc6m32

So that's it for the first part.

Part Two:

As part of this I would live to put together a paper comparing the 
projected costs for running a small-medium sized (say a town of 30-100 
thousand) library system.

I know that some of the FOSS cataloging systems are running on 
PostgreSQL - I assume that EnterpriseDB may be in this market..don't know.

Anyway - if you are and using FOSS or you have a lead for me I would 
appreciate a nudge. (direct email works)

This seemed like the right place to ask that - hope it wasn't too far OT.

Thanks for your time,

Drew