Joshua Ferraro

Joshua Ferraro
Joshua Ferraro speaking at a conference of the American Library Association in Denver in January, 2009.

Joshua Ferraro is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist.

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.[1] He was chief architect for ‡biblios.net,[2] the company's free cataloging service and the world's largest database of openly licensed library records[citation needed]. 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.[3] LibLime sold to PTFS, Inc. in March, 2010.[4]

Awards

In 2008, Ferraro was named one of Library Journal's "Movers and shakers."[5]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b "PTFS to Acquire LibLime and Move to Library Systems Premier League". Go-to-hellman.blogspot.com. 21 January 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  2. ^ Catalfo, Chris (15 December 2008). "‡biblios: An Open Source Cataloging Editor". The Code4Lib Journal (5). Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  3. ^ "LibLime Announces LibLime Enterprise Koha — LibLime". Archived from the original on 2009-09-15. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  4. ^ "PTFS acquires LibLime". Librarytechnology.org. 15 March 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Library Journal". Libraryjournal.com. Retrieved 27 October 2021.