Joshua Ferraro
Joshua Ferraro is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist.
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Joshua Ferraro speaking at a conference of the American Library Association in Denver in January, 2009. |
Ferraro was the founding CEO of LibLime and grew the company to profitability with over 600 customers under 140 contracts.[1] Under his leadership, LibLime grew rapidly into the largest support organization for the Koha open-source integrated library system (ILS), acquiring key Koha assets including a Koha trademark in United States, copyrights for the original Koha source code, and the Koha.org domain.[2] He was chief architect for ‡biblios.net,[3] the company's free cataloging service and the world's largest database of openly licensed library records. He also successfully navigated the company through a major business process change with the launch of LibLime Enterprise Koha (LLEK), an enterprise edition of Koha distributed only as a cloud computing software as a service solution.[4] LibLime sold to PTFS, Inc. in March, 2010.[5]
Awards
In 2008, Ferraro was named one of Library Journal's "Movers and shakers."[6]
Publications
- Mashing up open data with biblios.net Web services Engard, Nicole, 2009: Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data
References
- http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ptfs-to-acquire-liblime-and-move-to.html
- http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ptfs-to-acquire-liblime-and-move-to.html
- http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/657
- http://www.liblime.com/news/liblime-announces-liblime-enterprise-koha
- PTFS acquires LibLime
- Library Journal. Movers and Shakers State by State
External links
- Joshua Ferraro's Homepage which appears to be a dead link as of at least 16 September 2010