ByWater Solutions Names Nicole C. Engard VP of Education

1/26/2012
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

ByWater Solutions Names Nicole C. Engard VP of Education

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the US’s forefront provider of Koha (www.koha-community.org) support, is happy to announce the promotion of Nicole C. Engard to Vice President of Education.

Nicole started with ByWater Solutions in September of 2009 and in that time she has educated hundreds of librarians on the use of their new Koha ILS installations.  In her new role, Nicole will continue to manage education efforts for the company with a new focus on teaching librarians the nature of open source and how they can participate in community efforts. She will also continue in her role as Documentation Manager for the official Koha ILS project and help with supporting those using Koha in their libraries.

“I have been extremely impressed with all of the high quality work that Nicole has done while with ByWater Solutions.” states Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater Solutions. “We are more than pleased to reward Nicole with this promotion.”

Nicole comments on her new role, “Working at ByWater Solutions these past couple of years has been an amazing experience. I love getting to meet and train librarians around the world and I am excited to get started with my new responsibilities and new training initiatives.”
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ByWater Solutions to Offer Free Open Source Webinars

1/19/2012
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla
(888) 900-8944
sales@bywatersolutions.com

ByWater Solutions to Offer Free Open Source Webinars

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company is happy to announce a new open source education initiative. In an effort to educate library staff about the true nature of open source ByWater Solutions will be offering a series of free webinars entitled: Open Source in Libraries: Freedom and Community.

We at ByWater Solutions are dedicated to supporting open source software in libraries and support starts with Education. It is with that in mind that we would like to offer free training webinars to teach you all about open source.
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New ByWater Solutions Logo

Last week the ByWater Solutions team met up in Santa Barbara for our staff retreat. We talked about all kinds of ways to improve our company (and our service to you) in 2012. The first of these improvements will be a rebranding of the company. This is going to start today with a change in our logo image. Coming soon after will be a complete web redesign (keep that in mind if things look strange on our site in the coming days).
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