Koha Open Source Ambassadors Initiative and its benefits for Perl - Andrii Nugged - TPRC 2024

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Most of us, Perl Community people, are sensitive to helping Perl to expand, be used more, and improve. We have an easy opportunity for the community to do now big help for Perl by helping for more presence of Perl around us by making more Kohas around. I'll tell how and why.Koha is a capable, free, and open-source library management system that is in active development and is on a rising trend. So many libraries are happy switching to it nowadays.

What help do we need from a Koha Ambassador?
No need to learn anything complicated
Find your nearby school, university, or public library
Help them and advocate for the transition to Koha
Provide guidance and support during the migration process or intercommunicate transition process with us (me and other people will be around)
if you wish, you can contribute to developing open-source code.

We (me and my people) will help you learn about Koha, transitions, and what to say to end users. Your step is to convince libraries to switch, and we will do that together.

You will help Perl expand and exist, but you might also have one customer nearby who needs consultancy (or you can toss them for me/us, or I can support them together with you).

I will provide details, the site, and the point of connection, and later, I will provide training on advocating Koha usage and developer/sysadmin hints.