Re: [Koha] Spam from BestBookBuddies (OpenLX)

[Nathan Curulla]

Greetings all,

I personally agree that work needs to be done on this list. Maybe we should 
change the listing to “contributing support companies” or something like that. 
If you want to get listed in the Koha Yellow Pages, pony up some time on bug 
testing, dev submittals etc.. Invest in the community and you can put your 
company on the community site. We can even put up a disclaimer stating that 
there are many more companies out there, these are just the ones that give back 
in a significant way… This will encourage participation and reward those who 
already participate (which includes the vast majority of those already on the 
list). 

In my humble opinion, giving Koha services away for free in order to get a foot 
in the door to sell your primary offering (such as books) does not count as a 
contribution to the community. In fact, if the system is not properly supported 
because it is used as a peripheral marketing technique, it could end up hurting 
the community, as poor support translates into poor software in the eyes of the 
users. Not saying this is the case here, just some hypothetical contemplation :)


> Nathan A. Curulla
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:21:44 +1000
> From: Bob Birchall 
> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Spam from BestBookBuddies (OpenLX)
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> There we go again - 'official list' as if it has some status other than 
> as a yellow pages directory. I suspect the noise from the sub-continent 
> particularly will increase, whilst very little comes back to the 
> project. I think we should just get rid of that page from the website.
> My 2 cents,
> Bob Birchall
> Calyx
> 
> 
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Re: [Koha] Best Koha Implementation Award - 2017 (Koha Conclave)

[Nathan Curulla]

Congratulations to the Vikram Sarabhai Library and the Mysore University 
Library!!

Amit, can you please send me a quick email outlining this award so that I can 
draw up a community press release?

Thanks!!

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Re: [Koha] Koha Maps

[Nathan Curulla]

Thanks Chris,

Just for the record, I have never taken the same absolutist approach to this as 
you have and have never painted myself as doing so. When I do a demo or speak 
to a library I always say that open is great if it works for you, but if other 
tools out there work better than go ahead and use them!  If I told libraries 
that they would be ethically obligated to use open everything all the time then 
we wouldn’t have any customers and the community would be about 1,000 libraries 
fewer. There are not always open options and most of us are forced to look at 
things practically more so than ethically, especially when dealing with 
something like software. We are not talking about religion here. By your 
rationale anyone in the community who uses a Mac to code on Koha is a hypocrite 
and I don’t agree with that. So in short, Im not walking any walk that I don’t 
talk :) I guess I look at this project from more of a practical point of view 
rather than an ethical one because I don’t have the luxury to do the latter.





> On Dec 20, 2016, at 5:03 PM, Chris Cormack <chr...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> * Nathan Curulla (n...@bywatersolutions.com) wrote:
>> Thank you Marshall,
>> 
>> I agree with many of the points listed in this message. Chris, what is your 
>> biggest concern other than the fact that this data is not free to download?  
>> Marshall, would you be looking for some form of compensation for us to list 
>> this on the KC website?  How can we reach a middle ground here? It would be 
>> extremely unfortunate to pass up on this fantastic tool because of our 
>> inability to work together in a way that benefits both of us. Maybe this is 
>> a topic we can discuss and vote on during the next general meeting, and I 
>> would love to hear other’s opinions. My role as the Community Marketer (or 
>> whatever the role is called) is to effectively promote Koha to as many 
>> people as possible, as quickly as possible, with zero budget. I see this map 
>> hitting all of those points.
>> 
> Hi Nate
> 
> First up, cost is not a factor paying for the data would be fine, Free is a 
> problematic word in English, which is why I used Open license. If the data 
> was licensed with a CC-BY-SA or similar license then we could use the data in 
> whatever way we see fit. 
> I think you know me well enough by now to know I am advocate for Open
> Source and Open Data. I sit on the advisory board for Creative Commons
> NZ, but I am in no way speaking for them or my employer in this matter.
> 
> If the community votes to go ahead using proprietary data to market an
> Open Source project, then that's what will happen. However I do want my
> objection to this noted. It is an ethical stance, not a practical one,
> however if you aren't going to stand by your ethical beliefs, what is the 
> point
> having them. I find it odd that there is a push to open access from a
> lot of libraries ... I guess walking the walk is as important to me as
> talking the talk.
> 
> Chris
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> Catalyst IT Ltd.
> +64 4 803 2238
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[Koha] Koha Savings

[Nathan Curulla]

Greetings fellow Koha users!!

In a constant effort to promote Koha within the library world I am always 
thinking of new ways to portray the benefits of switching to an open source 
solution such as Koha. Now more than ever libraries need a more reasonably 
priced alternative to what is out there without having to give up 
functionality. One way I was thinking of showcasing the success of Koha was by 
sharing stories of current Koha users who have saved significant money by 
making the move, and what they have done with that extra cash as a result. Did 
you create a makers space with the money that was freed up? Buy new computers? 
Sponsor developments? If you fall into this category and are willing to share 
your story please contact me directly so that I can learn more!! Thank you all 
very much in advance and have a great Holiday!

All the best,

-Nate


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Re: [Koha] Koha Maps

[Nathan Curulla]

Thank you Marshall,

I agree with many of the points listed in this message. Chris, what is your 
biggest concern other than the fact that this data is not free to download?  
Marshall, would you be looking for some form of compensation for us to list 
this on the KC website?  How can we reach a middle ground here? It would be 
extremely unfortunate to pass up on this fantastic tool because of our 
inability to work together in a way that benefits both of us. Maybe this is a 
topic we can discuss and vote on during the next general meeting, and I would 
love to hear other’s opinions. My role as the Community Marketer (or whatever 
the role is called) is to effectively promote Koha to as many people as 
possible, as quickly as possible, with zero budget. I see this map hitting all 
of those points.

All the best,

-Nate

* Marshall Breeding (marshall.breed...@librarytechnology.org 
) wrote:
>  I have been following the discussion about how the Koha community can
>  better market itself, including using a map display to emphasize its
>  global impact.
> 
> 
> 
>  Naturally, I would be happy to have the map generated from Library
>  Technology Guides to be used.  Doing so would help me  ensure that my
>  registry of libraries using Koha is more complete since libraries might
>   be more motivated to be included.  Regardless of whether the Koha
>  community decides to rely more on my mapping tool, I will continue to try
>  to obtain data on the many libraries using Koha that are not yet
>  registered  on my site or any other database.  I continue to think that
>  Koha is most likely the most implemented ILS, but I do not yet have the
>  data to validate that assertion.
> 
> 
> 
>  The purity of working only with open source software and open access data
>  seems to me like an impossible goal.  Richard Stallman, who I heard speak
>  last year, takes this concept to its logical conclusion, and ends up with
>  quite a limited realm of software or data which meet his tests for purity.
>   Is the Koha community comfortable using the Google Map API, for example,
>  since it is based on a closed and proprietary information infrastructure
>  and underlying software components that may or may not be open source? Or
>  does it plan to invent its own global mapping ecosystem?
> 
> 
>  I have looked at the Hea tool and I have a hard time imagining it gaining
>  the functionality of a global mapping visual and becoming well populated
>  by the mechanisms provided.  Since it is generated mechanically through
>  each instance of Koha, it will be difficult to translate this data to
>  represent the libraries that are actually using Koha in production. Many
>  of the entries shown now (http://hea.koha-community.org/libraries 
> ) seem to
>  be duplicates or test implementations.   Its single entry for the NExpress
>  Shared Catalog is represented by 53 libraries on my maps. I don’t see hea
>  as having the structure has the ability to represent the branches
>  associated with a library system or consortia and many other aspects of
>  tracking the libraries which use any given automation system.  I think
>  that many, if not the majority, of Koha implementations globally are based
>  on older or forked versions of Koha, making it difficult or impossible for
>  them to automatically contribute their data to Hea. 
> 
> 
> 
>  I also wonder why the Koha development community would divert resources
>  into re-creating such a tool from other efforts to develop and promote
>  Koha.  Having maintained a registry of libraries for almost two decades,
>  my experience tells me that it is much more difficult to create and
>  maintain a well-organized list than others might imagine. 
> 
> 
> 
>  I have also just re-written the map tool on Library Technology Guides to
>  generate the display more quickly when there are a very large number of
>  libraries.  Although it depends on how quickly the Google API responds, it
>  now builds the maps in a few seconds, compared to almost a minute
>  previously.  I have also added some basic search selection tools at the
>  bottom of the page:
> 
>  https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/map.pl?ILS=Koha 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  I’ll be interested to hear further discussion on the topic.
> 


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Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the World

[Nathan Curulla]

Hi,

I'd really like to see Hea improved, and link to that instead. It is our
own, open, data. It is fully voluntary. We can make the registration
process easier for libraries - possibly as part of the installer. It is too
hidden now.

An API to Hea that I could pull from to use the data on the website would
be a nice thing, but not a requirement. I'm happy to simply link to it.

We have this tool, we should encourage more strongly the use of it, instead
of depending on a third party with non-open data.

--


Great! What is the plan and timeline for this? Liz, are you willing to head 
this up? I would be more than happy to help on the design front. Who is going 
to be the main tech lead on this project?

Also, no one has commented on the issue of the non-tech element in this. As I 
said before, if you want libraries to actually use this it needs to look nice, 
be easy to access, and be sortable and searchable. The whole point of doing 
this page is so libraries who are looking to use Koha can find institutions 
that are similar to their own. I have posted info on Hea through the gitlab 
thing and it is not easy to use for the average Joe. 


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Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the World

[Nathan Curulla]

Hi Everyone,

I hear what you are all saying about this and agree that it would be better to 
roll our own, but here is the thing: Hea is not user friendly at all and the 
Wiki is not a good marketing tool because it is not pretty (no offense on 
either of these). If you really want to market Koha you need to look at these 
things from the eyes of a non-developer, non-tech oriented librarian. If you do 
that you will see that these two tools are not optimal, especially in 
comparison to something that larger companies that Koha competes with are going 
to put out. 

It is good to hear that you want to clean things up and re-invent the wheel, 
but actually doing that in a reasonable amount of time in a competitive 
environment is another thing. If someone has a concrete proposal for an 
attractive, sortable, searchable, easy to submit to option on the website for 
libraries to put information in than I think that would be great and I will do 
everything to help that I can, but who is going to do it and when? With 
products like Folio coming Koha needs to be front and center in the open source 
library world and showing the world how many people use it is a no brainer (and 
should be easy) in terms of ways to do just that. 

So the options are that someone volunteers to create this interface (ByWater 
staff can help with this if given the access and permission, but we aren’t 
going to do it alone) with a completion target of end of Feb. 2017, or we link 
out to a third party site that already has the content. If we don’t hear from 
anyone about the former we are going to go with the latter. We need to move on 
this kind of stuff soon or Koha will be left in the dust in the coming 
emergence of open source in the library world. We need to become more 
accessible to those who don’t code, otherwise we are playing into the 
misconception that open source is for developers only.  

Respectfully, 

-Nate

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> Owner, CRO
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> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software
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> East Coast Office: Redding, CT.
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Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the World

[Nathan Curulla]

Hi Everyone,

I hear what you are all saying about this and agree that it would be better to 
roll our own, but here is the thing: Hea is not user friendly at all and the 
Wiki is not a good marketing tool because it is not pretty (no offense on 
either of these). If you really want to market Koha you need to look at these 
things from the eyes of a non-developer, non-tech oriented librarian. If you do 
that you will see that these two tools are not optimal, especially in 
comparison to something that larger companies that Koha competes with are going 
to put out. 

It is good to hear that you want to clean things up and re-invent the wheel, 
but actually doing that in a reasonable amount of time in a competitive 
environment is another thing. If someone has a concrete proposal for an 
attractive, sortable, searchable, easy to submit to option on the website for 
libraries to put information in than I think that would be great and I will do 
everything to help that I can, but who is going to do it and when? With 
products like Folio coming Koha needs to be front and center in the open source 
library world and showing the world how many people use it is a no brainer (and 
should be easy) in terms of ways to do just that. 

So the options are that someone volunteers to create this interface (ByWater 
staff can help with this if given the access and permission, but we aren’t 
going to do it alone) with a completion target of end of Feb. 2017, or we link 
out to a third party site that already has the content. If we don’t hear from 
anyone about the former we are going to go with the latter. We need to move on 
this kind of stuff soon or Koha will be left in the dust in the coming 
emergence of open source in the library world. We need to become more 
accessible to those who don’t code, otherwise we are playing into the 
misconception that open source is for developers only.  

Respectfully, 

-Nate

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Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Nathan Curulla]

Hi Everyone,

I hear what you are all saying about this and agree that it would be better to 
roll our own, but here is the thing: Hea is not user friendly at all and the 
Wiki is not a good marketing tool because it is not pretty (no offense on 
either of these). If you really want to market Koha you need to look at these 
things from the eyes of a non-developer, non-tech oriented librarian. If you do 
that you will see that these two tools are not optimal, especially in 
comparison to something that larger companies that Koha competes with are going 
to put out. 

It is good to hear that you want to clean things up and re-invent the wheel, 
but actually doing that in a reasonable amount of time in a competitive 
environment is another thing. If someone has a concrete proposal for an 
attractive, sortable, searchable, easy to submit to option on the website for 
libraries to put information in than I think that would be great and I will do 
everything to help that I can, but who is going to do it and when? With 
products like Folio coming Koha needs to be front and center in the open source 
library world and showing the world how many people use it is a no brainer (and 
should be easy) in terms of ways to do just that. 

So the options are that someone volunteers to create this interface (ByWater 
staff can help with this if given the access and permission, but we aren’t 
going to do it alone) with a completion target of end of Feb. 2017, or we link 
out to a third party site that already has the content. If we don’t hear from 
anyone about the former we are going to go with the latter. We need to move on 
this kind of stuff soon or Koha will be left in the dust in the coming 
emergence of open source in the library world. We need to become more 
accessible to those who don’t code, otherwise we are playing into the 
misconception that open source is for developers only.  

Respectfully, 

-Nate


Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:15:11 +1300
From: Liz Rea >
To: Katrin >
Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz 
Subject: Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word
Message-ID:
>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi,

I'd really like to see Hea improved, and link to that instead. It is our
own, open, data. It is fully voluntary. We can make the registration
process easier for libraries - possibly as part of the installer. It is too
hidden now.

An API to Hea that I could pull from to use the data on the website would
be a nice thing, but not a requirement. I'm happy to simply link to it.

We have this tool, we should encourage more strongly the use of it, instead
of depending on a third party with non-open data.

Liz
> Nathan A. Curulla
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Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Nathan Curulla]

Hi Everyone,

I agree completely with Sebastian’s suggestion. I don’t see any reason to 
re-invent the wheel. Let’s link the page on the KC website to Marshall’s map. 
It is an already established site and is very easy to use and navigate. It is a 
win for the KC because we don’t need to re-do all of that work, and it is a win 
for Marshall because it will bring more traffic to his site! Sebastian, perhaps 
we can get together with Liz and anyone else who would like to be involved in 
this and talk about how it would look. 

All the best,

-Nate

Message: 9
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:12:42 +0100
From: Sebastian Hierl >
To: Radek Šiman >
Cc: "koha@lists.katipo.co.nz " 
>
Subject: Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word
Message-ID:
>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Dear all,

Thank you for your contributions and ideas.  I think that we should
link/embed Marshall Breeding's map
https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/map.pl?ILS=Koha 
 at
koha-community.org .  The main point is to provide 
newcomers interested in
Koha with reassurance that Koha is stable, mature, and implemented
throughout the world in libraries of all types.  Marshall Breeding's site
provides descriptions of the libraries (size, circulation) and links to
their opacs.  We do not need to reinvent the wheel, just a map that
provides someone interested in Koha with the information they are seeking.

-Sebastian

--
Sebastian Hierl, Ph.D.
Drue Heinz Librarian, Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5
00153 Rome
Italy

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[Koha] Koha 16.11 Press Release for the General Public

[Nathan Curulla]

Hi Everyone,

I have created a press release for marketing purposes to be posted on the 
community site and distributed to media outlets. I wanted to share the release 
with everyone before publishing to see if there are any strong opinions 
regarding the content. Please keep in mind that this is for the general public, 
it is meant to be a tool for the community to educate those who are unfamiliar 
with Koha so many of the highly technical details have been left out. I am 
planning on releasing this first thing tomorrow. Thanks and I hope you all like 
it!



11/23/2016
CONTACT:
Nathan Curulla, KC Media Coordinator 
ncuru...@gmail.com

The Koha Community is proud to announce the release of Koha 16.11

Koha, the world's first fully web based and open source integrated library 
system has now been released as version 16.11. This release will include over 
240 enhancements as well as 360 bug fixes. Koha 16.11 builds on the system's 
already robust functionality and adds many architecture improvements to make 
the impressive speed of this fully web based system even faster. Some key 
highlights of the 16.11 release include:

Added ability to place article requests and document delivery in Koha
Addition of a patron quick add form for on the fly patron additions 
A new Housebound Readers Module, adding the ability to link deliverers, item 
choosers and homebound patrons on one account
Additional improvements to Koha's EDI ordering and invoicing functionality 
Additional improvements to Syndetics and Novelist Select embedded content
Improved ability to use Elastic as preferred search engine in Koha, adding 
speed and scalability to Koha’s searching capabilities
Enhancements to REST API infrastructure, paving the way for Koha to be the most 
accessible and integrated ILS in the world 
Added ability to place multiple holds per patron per record, allowing for 
multiple item level holds
The many other features contained in the 16.11 release can be viewed in the 
full release notes: (link forthcoming) 

Kyle Hall, Release Manager for Koha 16.11 commented on the newest release of 
Koha:

"Koha 16.11 contains many important architecture and plumbing improvements to 
the system which pave the way for the next few releases and the exciting 
enhancements lined up to be included. Because architecture improvements are 
typically behind the scenes they are more difficult to find funding for, so 
taking care of these improvements will result many long term gains for Koha."

The Koha Community would like to thank the following libraries and companies 
who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 16.11:

BULAC - http://www.bulac.fr/ <http://www.bulac.fr/>
ByWater Solutions
California College of the Arts
Carnegie Stout Library
Catalyst IT
DoverNet
FIT
Hochschule für Gesundheit (hsg), Germany
NEKLS
South-East Kansas Library System
SWITCH Library Consortium
Tulong Aklatan
Universidad de El Salvador
Universidad Empresarial Siglo 21
University of the Arts London
VOKAL
We would also like to thank the 72 individuals and 36 libraries, companies, and 
institutions who contributed patches to this release, as well as the 102 
individuals involved in testing Koha 16.11. 

About Koha:
Koha is the first free software library automation package. In use worldwide, 
its development is steered by a growing community of users collaborating to 
achieve their technology goals. Koha’s feature set continues to evolve and 
expand to meet the needs of its user base.

Full-featured ILS. In use worldwide in libraries of all sizes, Koha is a true 
enterprise-class ILS with comprehensive functionality including basic and 
advanced options. Koha includes modules for acquisitions, circulation, 
cataloging, serials management, authorities, flexible reporting, label 
printing, multi-format notices, offline circulation for when Internet access is 
not available, and much more. Koha will work for consortia of all sizes, 
multi-branch, and single-branch libraries.

Multilingual and translatable. Koha has a large number of available languages 
<http://translate.koha-community.org/>, with more languages every year.

Full text searching Powerful searching, and an enhanced catalogue display that 
can use content from Amazon, Google, LibraryThing, Open Library, and Syndetics, 
among others.

Library Standards Compliant. Koha is built using library standards and 
protocols such as MARC 21, UNIMARC, z39.50, SRU/SW, SIP2, SIP/NCIP, ensuring 
interoperability between Koha and other systems and technologies, while 
supporting existing workflows and tools.

Web-based Interfaces. Koha’s OPAC, circ, management and self-checkout 
interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web 
technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent 
solution.

Free Software / Open Source  Koha is distributed under the Free Software 
General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/g

Re: [Koha] Koha Community Marketing Initiative

[Nathan Curulla]

This is fantastic thank you Sebastian!! We look forward to hearing more about 
what is going on with KGI. These types of initiatives are exactly what the 
community needs to get the word out and I am sure that your efforts are 
appreciated by everyone!!

Have a great weekend

> On Nov 18, 2016, at 8:12 AM, Sebastian Hierl  wrote:
> 
> Dear Nate and everyone,
> 
> The Koha Gruppo Italiano looks forward to participating.  In the past, we 
> have promoted Koha through:
> 
> • organizing numerous events and workshops, including conferences on topics 
> such as open source software in libraries; linked data; and hands-on Koha 
> workshops in Rome and beyond
> 
> • the distribution of informational flyers, gadgets, t-shirts and pens during 
> events and conferences
> 
> • our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KohaGruppoItaliano/ 
> 
> 
> • our home page (which will soon move to Wordpress): 
> http://www.kohagruppoitaliano.moonfruit.com/ 
> 
> 
> • securing two grants from EBSCO for Koha development, including the 
> implementation of ElasticSearch in Koha and integration with YBP’s GOBI 
> platform, as well as the Italian union catalog, the Indice SBN.  
> 
> We look forward to continuing these efforts together,
> 
> Stefano Bargioni, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
> Sebastian Hierl, American Academy in Rome
> Juan Diego Ramirez, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
> Franziska Wallner, American University of Rome
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Re: [Koha] Koha Community Marketing Initiative

[Nathan Curulla]

Hi Bob,

Great idea! I have set up an email address for anyone who would like to send 
content. I can also set up a Dropbox folder for larger files if needed. The 
email address to send content that we can use to market Koha is 
kohamarket...@bywatersolutions.com . 
People who are interested in taking part in this initiative can also email me 
at this address and once we have a team we will all receive emails sent to that 
address. 

If you are someone who wants to help contribute to the community in ways other 
than doing development work this is the perfect thing for you!!

> Nathan A. Curulla
> Owner, CRO
> ByWater Solutions
> Phone/Fax # (888) 900-8944 xt 2
> Cell # (203) 685-7207

> http://bywatersolutions.com 
> n...@bywatersolutions.com 
> On Nov 8, 2016, at 9:19 AM, koha-requ...@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote:
> 
> Hi Nate,
> Good initiative, congratulations.  We can't participate in your 
> committee but we do write stuff from time to time that could be more 
> generally useful.  Will you give consideration to setting up an email 
> address where such stuff could be sent, for review/distribution by your 
> volunteers?  Just a thought.
> Bob Birchall
> Calyx

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[Koha] Koha Community Marketing Initiative

[Nathan Curulla]

Greetings fellow Koha users!

During the last general IRC meeting it was decided that it is time we got 
serious about marketing Koha globally as a community. There is still too much 
misunderstanding and fear based on misconceptions circulated by the larger 
proprietary ILS systems and it is time we fight back and educate our librarians 
on the realities of what we do. I will be heading up this initiative and would 
like to see who else is interested in taking part. For now, we have no budget 
for this so most of the marketing will be content that is created during 
volunteer time such as more regular press regarding features, website content, 
blog posts and social media. If you have experience marketing products or have 
a desire to be involved by writing content and directing the message we are 
trying to put out please let me know and we can put together a committee. 
Thanks much and I am excited to get our message out to a broader global user 
base!

All the best,

-Nate

> Nathan A. Curulla
> Owner, CRO
> ByWater Solutions
> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software
> Headquarters: Portland, OR.
> East Coast Office: Redding, CT.
> Phone/Fax # (888) 900-8944 xt 2
> Cell # (203) 685-7207

> http://bywatersolutions.com 
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Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] Drupal Koha Libraries

[Nathan Curulla]

Very nice Rebecca!!


On Jul 13, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Crago, Rebecca rcr...@mercyhurst.edu wrote:

 Mercyhurst University has just launched our new library website! We are now 
 using Drupal, so I wanted to reach out to other Koha/Drupal libraries.
 http://library.mercyhurst.edu
  
 We use Ebsco’s EDS and integrated our catalog search using their ‘Build a 
 search box’ code (http://support.ebscohost.com/eit/sbb.php).
  
 What features are you using on your Koha/Drupal site?
  
 Rebecca Crago, MLIS
 Systems and Teaching Librarian
 Mercyhurst University
 501 East 38th Street
 Erie, PA 16546
 ( (814) 824-3305
  
  
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Re: [Koha] Invitation to participate in the annual Library Automation Perceptions survey

[Nathan Curulla]

Greetings,

I just wanted to weigh in to say that this survey is extremely important to the 
strength of Koha at least in the United States. Many many libraries use this 
survey to determine how Koha stacks up against all of the proprietary 
solutions, and because of the higher levels of service that is inherent with an 
open source product, Koha consistently stands apart both for self supported 
systems and those supported by a company. It is an easy way for people to see 
how their fellow librarians feel about the choices they made, and because this 
feedback has been very good, it makes more libraries want to go this route. We 
attempt to get as many of our customers as possible to respond to this report, 
not only with the hopes of getting a good response, but also so that we can 
identify any areas we need to work on, or what types of features need to be 
added to make librarians happier. Thank you for your work on this Marshall!

All the best,

-Nate

 Nathan A. Curulla
 Owner, EVP
 ByWater Solutions
 Support and Consulting for Open Source Software
 Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA.
 Office: Redding, CT.
 Phone/Fax # (888) 900-8944 xt 2
 Cell # (203) 685-7207

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[Koha] ByWater Solutions Position Opening!

[Nathan Curulla]

Greetings!

We are currently seeking an individual to fulfill a Development Specialist role 
with ByWater Solutions. The candidate must be self motivated and comfortable 
with working from home. The core responsibilities of this position will include:
Determination of the root of support ticket issues and resolving the problem
Identification and resolution of bugs within development projects
Creation of bug reports and patches, and submittal of these fixes to the Koha 
community
Determination of the technical requirements needed to get the end goal the 
client expects from a development project
Identify and resolve multiple recurring issues, and creating a solution that 
will fix all issues simultaneously. 
Required skills:
Perl experience, including working with Modules and Object Oriented Perl
Extensive experience with Debian Linux command line operations
MySQL
XHTML/CSS
Git version control
knowledge of MARC21
Library/Library Software experience 
Excellent communication skills
Excellent problem solving skills
Commitment to open source
Comfortable working from home
Preferred:
Knowledge of the Koha open source ILS 
MLIS/MIS/MLS from ALA accredited library school
5+ years library experience
experience with:
Indexdata's Zebra
Selenium
Bugzilla
Postfix/exim4 or other MTAs
Template Toolkit
JQuery
HTML5 and CSS3
NYTProf
Please let us know if you have any questions regarding this position, or if you 
would like to schedule an interview, and we will get back to you directly. 
Thank you very much and have a great day!

All the best,

-Nate

 Nathan A. Curulla
 Executive Vice President
 ByWater Solutions
 VISIT US AT ALA MIDWINTER BOOTH # 2048
 Support and Consulting for Open Source Software
 Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA.
 Office: West Haven, CT.
 Phone/Fax # (888) 900-8944 xt 2
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