Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America -> With respect, in turn, the right hand column specifically says "Countries 23", with a link to those 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America. The list of 45 includes territories. Greg - On 11/19/2015 04:32 PM, Paul A wrote: > At 03:40 PM 11/19/2015 -0600, glaws wrote: >> Concession: there is sometimes, and possibly in this case, the tendency >> to equate North America (23 countries per Wikipedia) with the United >> States. That is more a careless, linguistic peccadillo, I suggest, than >> a felony warranting a call-to-arms. > > Very respectfully, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America> lists > 45 countries (colourful table about 20% down the page)[1] including > what "old-fashioned me" used to call "Central America" and "the > Caribbean." North America is, at the very least, Canada, the USA, St > Pierre et Miquelon and Greenland. > > The phrase "Koha North America User's Group would like to invite > agencies and libraries located within the United States to host its > third annual meeting" is *NOT* a "linguistic peccadillo", it is an > explicitly discriminatory invitation. > > Paul > [1] Including, btw, La Navasse which is seen by most historians as an > anomalous US land-grab under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 which > allows the US President to "consider as appertaining to the United > States" any piece of real estate covered in ... guano. > ---snip-- ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting
Brooke: A. Inclusiveness So are you saying that there can only be one worldwide Koha group, and that there cannot be national or regional level Koha groups and corresponding meetings? Do you presume that anyone from outside North America would be unwelcome at a North America/United States meeting? Would it be appropriate for the NA/USA group to openly solicit world-wide attendance, and possibly seem to be competing with World KohaCon? There may be topics of interest only to US organizations, like eRate, LSTA grants and US laws, like privacy legislation, that may be important and need to be discussed but which may be avoided in an effort to be inclusive of other countries attendees if those were many. Concession: there is sometimes, and possibly in this case, the tendency to equate North America (23 countries per Wikipedia) with the United States. That is more a careless, linguistic peccadillo, I suggest, than a felony warranting a call-to-arms. B. Time of Meeting I don't think meeting in a particular month carries the same weight of concern as your first point about inclusiveness, or even your last about attendance fees. C. Attendance Fees Libraries, few in the US rich, don't always have good conference rooms, especially if there are conference break-out sessions. That may mean renting some hotel meeting room space for $1,000 a day. If it requires a $20 charge per person to get some good facilities I think that's reasonable. I have always, albeit typically privately, supported the idea of a reasonable attendance fee. I greatly appreciate it when a hosting organization provides coffee, maybe juice, and pastries for breakfast so that I don't have to run all over a hotel in the morning trying to find the $5 coffee and $4 donuts, being late for the inaugural address, and spilling now-cold coffee all over the nice lady in the row in front of me as I say "excuse-me, excuse-me" as I trip over people trying to get to the only open seat in the middle of the row in the middle of the room. Having coffee and donuts provided at the event is worth some coin to me and something more to the ex-nice lady soaked in cold vanilla hazelnut coffee which clashes terribly with her /parfum du jour/. Greg -- On 11/19/2015 02:19 PM, BWS Johnson wrote: > Salvete! > > >> The Koha North America User’s Group would like to invite agencies and >> libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting >> held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of >> instructional sessions and presentations, followed by a two day hackfest. > > At risk of beating a dead horse, I am once again disappointed that this > body has taken up the mantle of "North America". There are plenty of > Libraries, Organisations, and Agencies within North America that do not fit > your group's stringent United States centric viewpoint. I am also continually > saddened that this body will only consider meeting in early August. It is > further too bad that you all charge fees for your meeting. The three of these > problems in combination send a strong repeated message that inclusivity is > not an aim of your organisation, whether that be a valid conclusion to draw > or no. I do so hope that at some point in future, this group might reconsider > any or all of those matters. > > > Cheers, > Brooke > ___ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Proposal to remove the 'Paid support' list
I have mixed feelings on the subject, but I think there is some merit in somebody maintaining a list somewhere. As now, it should not be any type of certification by the Koha community or a partner program, but for non-users researching Koha, a link to a list would be quite helpful, and better than relying on Google (which promotes paid listings). I just googled koha and the first item on the list? koha.org. A pie diagram unfairly penalizes smaller companies, perhaps with only a few individuals who could still provide excellent installation and support services, but don't have the staff to have 1,000 commits. While I realize I have left dangling somebody maintaining a list somewhere, a list of Koha providers associated with the broad Koha community has value. Greg On 07/01/2015 09:06 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: The subject is self-explanatory. But I'll try to explain my position a bit further. The project doesn't have a partner program, so being listed there only means you are listed. What is the benefit for people listed? I would say marketing and/or some SEO advantage (Liz told me there are counter measures applied so it is not used for SEO). Some places, notably India and others, expect some kind of official certification for service providers, and people are referring to being listed on the site as a way to certify their validation as service providers. I think this hurts the project, because people tend to trust some quality degree is assured if companies are listed, which we cannot certify; and also makes community members spend a lot of time reviewing people's sites, with try/error iterations very often [1]. I propose we replace the current listing with (a) nothing or (b) some pie diagram with companies/institutions contributions (git log, or what best addresses the need) to the project. I would vote (a). If there is some consensus that contributing companies/institutions should have some public recognition by the community, then we can do (b). How companies position themselves on the market is not something the community needs to address, but the company's challenge. [2] Kind regards Tomas [1] I'm pretty sure we can write a script that generates different valid sites that should be accepted for the list, so I find depressing that people doesn't even do the effort to comply with the simple rules we have put. [2] Unless we start an official partner program, but I'm sure we are still far from that. If you want to actually be part of the Koha community and be recognized, do something for the project, write a valuable article for the newsletter, contribute an enhancement, actively report and/or fix bugs, organize Koha promoting events: Get involved. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Tomas Needs A Laptop!
I rather wish gofundme.com would accept paypal. Can people vouch for the integrity and security of gofundme? I've not heard of it before now. And I do hope enough money is raised to purchase a nice office safe too. Greg Lawson --- On 04/08/2015 03:49 PM, Kyle Hall wrote: As you all may know, our beloved Koha Release Manager unfortunately discovered that while he and his family were away, his home was broken into and his electronics were stolen, including his laptops. Let's see what we can do to help him replace his stolen electronics! Let's show everyone what the Koha community is all about! Thanks to everyone who's donated so far! Every bit counts! This is why I love being part of the Koha community so much! http://www.gofundme.com/TomasNeedsALaptop http://www.kylehall.info ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha - ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] MOREnet 2015 Annual Conference
http://tinyurl.com/on6ygfy Call for presentations. Also a good opportunity for vendors. Although sadly I won't be attending a Koha or Evergreen (EG) presentation would be great. Many libraries in Missouri use EG and all have heard of Koha. / MOREnet’s Annual Conference is a professional development opportunity that allows our attendees to pick the learning experience that’s right for you./ -- Greg Lawson ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] FOSS Conference - Call for Papers
http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/pages/call-for-papers.html FOSS conference March 2015 in Lawrence, KS, USA. Call for papers. Koha anyone? -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Proposal for fund raising for Koha - to discuss/vote at December General Meeting.
I fully support this great idea. I do have the following comments/observations: 1. A fund-raising organization should not focus exclusively on development; Koha should also have reserve funds available for legal costs to protect its status, and HLT should receive some funds for administrative costs. 2. I believe there is still some merit in Koha being associated with an organization like, as a singular example, Software in the Public Interest. 3. While I would expect most of the funds raised to be in relatively small amounts, certainly large organizations frequently support open-source projects with large grants, and these possibilities should be considered. 4. Where feasible the community should try to bring in new developers. Most current developers and support companies are already fully-engaged in writing code; when projects are funded now typically one of the developers are diverted from their normal daily duties to work on the paid project. While this cannibalism, if I may, is understandable, if significant funds are raised in the future pulling in new programmers should be considered. 5. After significant funds are raised someone should purchase Biblionix and open-source Apollo. Then Sirsi. :) Note: due to sad, unfortunate circumstances I do need to emphasize the above are my own ideas and should not be associated with the library where I work. Greg -- Greg Lawson 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 --- On 12/09/2014 03:57 PM, Brendan Gallagher wrote: Hello All - After discussing with many of you within the Koha project for many years and countless times, I'd like to bring forth the idea of having a fund-raising organization for Koha. It's about time the project raised money to help meet the needs and goals of the community. This idea and concept can only be a strong option with the support and help of many of us in the community. We believe that we have great organization to stand behind this great proposal in Horowhenua Library Trust (HLT) as a non-profit-organization (NPO) to help manage the funds for the Koha community in the most responsible way (For the good of the community). Please read below for some of the ideas and thoughts - and I would like to bring to this to a vote at the next General Meeting on if we should all as a community move forward with creating a Koha-Fund to use towards and only towards Koha. These are just thoughts and ideas and we can all move forward and work on the details and rules and laws etc after we get a YES LET'S RAISE MONEY HOWEVER WE CAN TO SPEND ON KOHA. http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2014/10/09/kohacon-14-day-3-funding-the-koha-project/ *Organization for Fund raising:* Currently the Koha project generates more patches for enhancements and bugs than the collective community has time to work on. There is a need to raise funds so that more resources can be purchased to accelerate development. All funds that are raised via the project are to be used for improvement in the project. Koha has become a large international free software and open source software project. There are many projects and needs for a project this large. Many of the responsibilities that are needed for the future need to be funded and can not rely on the volunteer hours of the many participants of the project. For example, the current number of patches to be tested far outnumbers the amount of volunteer hours that we as a project are able to put towards that. Also in the future there are many software fixes that need to be completed that need funding, which can not be expected to be led by the users of the project. The current method of development and fixes of the software are led by the funding from the users, I propose that we fundraise from within the community and external to the community for being able to solve many of these large un-met needs. The fund raisin entity should be a non-profit organization so that all donations are not taxed and if possible the donors can have tax-deductions (if that is applicable for your local tax laws). The goal of this fund organization is to gather many many small donations to lead to an effective pool of funds available to support Koha development. Some thoughts so far towards identifying the appropriate fund raising entity is using the Horowhenua Library Trust (HLT) (Which we now have the full support of and Joanne can fill us in more about that). *Governing board:* This new fund should be governed by a board. That board should be made up of volunteers, that are interested to continue/champion fund raising efforts for the Koha project. The most important aspect of any board member would be to introduce new avenues for pursuing donations. Ideally the board would be representatives from all around the world so that board members could lead fund raising efforts in their local regions. This board will also be responsible with managing the
Re: [Koha] Firefox speed issues
Yes, have noticed--it's been a problem here. Clear everything in the cache, but most important is to unselect Use hardware acceleration when available. For FF on Linux, that's: Preferences - Advanced - Browsing Greg -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506\ On 11/14/2014 12:46 PM, Nicole Engard wrote: Hi all, Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using? Thanks in advance Nicole ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Firefox speed issues
http://lifehacker.com/disable-firefoxs-hardware-acceleration-to-fix-slowness-749344037 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/991122 http://www.askvg.com/tip-reduce-mozilla-firefox-loading-time-by-disabling-hardware-acceleration-feature/ -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 -- On 11/14/2014 12:46 PM, Nicole Engard wrote: Hi all, Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using? Thanks in advance Nicole ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Comment: Koha Community Code of Conduct
Well, yes, that's my point really. By the simple definition given in the CoC every comment on the enumerated items is harassing. Harassment includes...comments related to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion. Greg On 09/26/2014 03:05 PM, Riley Childs wrote: Overly broad? You can harass without knowing it, you are taking I in the literal sense that every comment is harssing. Riley Childs Senior Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services Administrator IT Services (704) 497-2086 rileychilds.net @rowdychildren From: glaws mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org Sent: 9/26/2014 3:50 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Comment: Koha Community Code of Conduct I have some concerns about the Koha Community Code of Conduct posted here: http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/ http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/ My specific concern is the second bullet point: Harassment includes, but is not limited to: * ---snip--- * Verbal, graphic or written comments related to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion which seems overly broad. Examples If, during a conference breaking for lunch, I say to a group of attendees I'm Buddhist, is there a vegetarian restaurant near here?, I would seem to have violated this point (verbal...comment...religion). Or if I'm a presenter, and I make a comment for illustrative purposes, like Just as people come in all sizes, libraries also vary in size and Koha is great for all of them, have I violated the code? Or if I'm with a group of attendees planning on going out somewhere, and I say I have insert any health problem, and I can't walk with you that far, is that a violation? I would like to suggest that the wording for this particular point include something to the effect that the references must be obviously negative in nature or perhaps intended to give offense to to an average person _based_on_some_reasonable_standard_. -- Greg Lawson ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Comment: Koha Community Code of Conduct
Simply as a suggestion, something like the following could be modified to fit the Koha CoC needs: speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech ...hate speech, which is defined as utterances, displays, or expressions of racial, religious, or sexual bias http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Inciting,+Provocative,+or+Offensive+Speech Harassment includes _offensive_ verbal _comments_ related to gender, sexual orientation, disability... #note offensive https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/ harassment may be broadly understood to consist of unwarranted behaviour towards another person,...by such means as single or successive acts of bullying, verbally or physically abusing, or ill-treating him or her Forms of harassment covered by this code include harassment relating to another’s sex (including gender reassignment), sexual orientation, religion, race, or disability. http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/other-policies/code-of-practice-on-harassment/ Greg -- On 09/26/2014 03:19 PM, Riley Childs wrote: In your opinion, how should it read? Riley Childs Senior Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services Administrator IT Services (704) 497-2086 rileychilds.net @rowdychildren From: glaws mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org Sent: 9/26/2014 4:17 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Comment: Koha Community Code of Conduct Well, yes, that's my point really. By the simple definition given in the CoC every comment on the enumerated items is harassing. Harassment includes...comments related to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion. Greg On 09/26/2014 03:05 PM, Riley Childs wrote: Overly broad? You can harass without knowing it, you are taking I in the literal sense that every comment is harssing. Riley Childs Senior Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Services Administrator IT Services (704) 497-2086 rileychilds.net @rowdychildren From: glaws mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org Sent: 9/26/2014 3:50 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Comment: Koha Community Code of Conduct I have some concerns about the Koha Community Code of Conduct posted here: http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/ http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/ My specific concern is the second bullet point: Harassment includes, but is not limited to: * ---snip--- * Verbal, graphic or written comments related to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion which seems overly broad. Examples If, during a conference breaking for lunch, I say to a group of attendees I'm Buddhist, is there a vegetarian restaurant near here?, I would seem to have violated this point (verbal...comment...religion). Or if I'm a presenter, and I make a comment for illustrative purposes, like Just as people come in all sizes, libraries also vary in size and Koha is great for all of them, have I violated the code? Or if I'm with a group of attendees planning on going out somewhere, and I say I have insert any health problem, and I can't walk with you that far, is that a violation? I would like to suggest that the wording for this particular point include something to the effect that the references must be obviously negative in nature or perhaps intended to give offense to to an average person _based_on_some_reasonable_standard_. -- Greg Lawson ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Comment: Koha Community Code of Conduct
I wish I knew the background better, but a lot of the recent discussion on Codes of Conduct I think stems from some recent problems in the gaming community. Again, I admit my knowledge is limited, but I think it had something to do with male gamers putting down female gamers; very offensive words and actions were used in that situation, and the outing of personally identifying information was one of the problems. I think any reasonable person applying a reasonable standard would realize the CoC wording as is currently stands wouldn't apply to the examples I cited, nor to yours. It's the unreasonable factors we have to be concerned with, and just a little modding of the wording will fix things. Greg On 09/26/2014 04:12 PM, viktor.sa...@regionhalland.se wrote: I highly agree with the spirit of the CoC, but with this discussion I realize that taking the following part literally would forbid me to give people credit when listening to them during a KohaCon: Harassment includes, but is not limited to: […] • Posting (or threatening to post) other people’s personally identifying information. […] Names are the mother of personally identifying information and since a good reputation is sort of the currency in a FOSS-community not being able to publicly give people credit seems counter productive :) I guess the paragraph is ment to cover giving credit, but as I read it that may be the effect(?) Kind regards/Viktor Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: viktor.sa...@regionhalland.se BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek 26 sep 2014 kl. 21:49 skrev glaws glaw...@rhcl.org: I have some concerns about the Koha Community Code of Conduct posted here: http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/ http://koha-community.org/about/policy/code-of-conduct/ My specific concern is the second bullet point: Harassment includes, but is not limited to: * ---snip--- * Verbal, graphic or written comments related to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion which seems overly broad. Examples If, during a conference breaking for lunch, I say to a group of attendees I'm Buddhist, is there a vegetarian restaurant near here?, I would seem to have violated this point (verbal...comment...religion). Or if I'm a presenter, and I make a comment for illustrative purposes, like Just as people come in all sizes, libraries also vary in size and Koha is great for all of them, have I violated the code? Or if I'm with a group of attendees planning on going out somewhere, and I say I have insert any health problem, and I can't walk with you that far, is that a violation? I would like to suggest that the wording for this particular point include something to the effect that the references must be obviously negative in nature or perhaps intended to give offense to to an average person _based_on_some_reasonable_standard_. -- Greg Lawson ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Koha slowness and server hardware
We're seeing a similar problem with our Koha install; we're blaming the 32-bit OS. I'd recommend upgrading VMWare and (re)installing Deb 64bit on your system, and also possibly moving up to Koha 3.16, if you have to option to do those things. Would the vSphere Hypervisor work for you? We've been playing with it here, and will probably use it for our next virtual machine server. http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/ Greg -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 On 07/16/2014 12:32 PM, Steven Nickerson wrote: Hello everyone, I'm looking for some thoughts/opinions. I have a working 3.14.04 package install environment running on a 4-core 3.6GHz system with 8GB RAM. The OS is Debian 32-bit running as a VM on top of VMware ESXi. This single VM is allocated pretty much all of the physical hardware resources in the system...just wanted the flexibility of adding a test VM environment later perhaps. We are noticing that most functions are quite slow, including check-ins, check-outs, and patron lookups. I've monitored the system for a bit and am seeing that mysqld is consuming 100% of all 4 CPUs consistently during the slowness. What I'm wondering is: - Does this seem normal to folks? Should a relatively small environment (less than 2000 patrons and just over 11,000 items) be consuming that much CPU? - Could it be VMware? - Could it be the 32-bit OS? The version of VMware I installed wouldn't allow me to create a 64-bit Debian VM. - Are there any MySQL tuning parameters I should consider? - Any other thoughts/ideas on what I should look at? Thanks all! Steve ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Chrome Boxes/Books
Is anyone using Chrome Boxes/Books to authenticate via SIP to a Koha server for logins? I'm not familiar with Google's management console, although it apparently supports proxies, so I don't know what might be required to get that functionality. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] To whom it may concern
Congrats. Obviously you will be teaching her Pithon and not Perl, right? Hope somebody else didn't make that bright comment and I missed it Greg -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 -- On 03/14/2014 05:14 PM, Cindy Norman wrote: oh congratulations Kyle!! You are in for a wonderful adventure! Kids are the best. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Kyle Hall k...@bywatersolutions.comwrote: Daria Michelle Hall was born on pi day! 9 pounds 2 ounced! ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] koha-community.org down?
It's that dang Zebra indexer. Greg - On 01/27/2014 12:49 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: If it is up and down, it might be under heavy load, prolly bad search engine indexers. Chris On 28/01/2014 7:41 am, Keener, Nancy nkee...@washoecounty.us wrote: OK now, just checked again! Nancy Keener Systems Librarian I.T.O.S.C. Chair KohaCon 13 Chair Washoe County Library System Reno, Nevada 775 327-8347 nkee...@washoecounty.us -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Keener, Nancy Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 10:06 AM To: Elaine Bradtke; koha Subject: Re: [Koha] koha-community.org down? No access here either. Nancy Keener Systems Librarian I.T.O.S.C. Chair KohaCon 13 Chair Washoe County Library System Reno, Nevada 775 327-8347 nkee...@washoecounty.us -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Elaine Bradtke Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 9:40 AM To: koha Subject: [Koha] koha-community.org down? I can't seem to get into the site. Is there a problem? -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel+44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Conference stuff
How's the fishin' up there? I think I could do a trip to Portland. I'd like to see the sandbox demo again a couple of times. Someday I might have time to process a few signoffs. May is good, September is dicey. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 - On 12/20/2013 03:18 PM, Lenora Oftedahl wrote: That being said, I offer once again to host a Pacific Northwest Koha Conference anytime y'all want here in Portland. We've got a beautiful meeting room now with several hotels in the area in a wide range of prices. Perhaps we could get someone to come in and teach us all to program in PERL so we can all become debuggers? Half conference/half hackfest? May or September? Lenora Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission -whack- ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] North American Users Group
I'm fairly confident (we're hiring a new director, so somewhat uncertain) Rolling Hills Library would be interested in sending people to a conference. I personally don't want to be President, King or Chairman of the Board, but I could be in charge of coffee pot operations or something. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 --- On 11/13/2013 12:47 PM, Brendan Gallagher wrote: Hello All - Can anyone that is interested in setting up a users meeting in North America for sometime next year - please contact me (you can reply here or to me directly). I'd like to put a little group together to plan something like this out. I am willing to put the group together and provide conference lines,etc. (perhaps with the first meeting in a few weeks) But I really want this to be lead by the users and not a support company. So I'll help as much as I can - but I'm looking for a librarian and/or a group of librarians that want to take the lead and get this going. As I said earlier, I will be happy in leading setting up a hackfest. Thanks, Brendan ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Summary of Open session at KohaCon13 - with a focus on Funding the Future of Koha.
comment note numerous snips from original post - On 11/06/2013 09:38 PM, Brendan Gallagher wrote: Hello All - I’d like to give a summary of a open discussion that occurred at KohaCon14 in Reno...a discussion on Funding the future of Koha...to educate the audience on some of the “plumbing” needs in the code...and how are we going to get that done. Many of these “needs” are larger projects...Not one support vendor can brunt the front of the plumbing needs that need to happen...We need to...plan going forward now. Points that were raised. snip--- An important comment here from the attendees was that when someone is funding a development - they should not just fund the code, but also plan for time and funding for the Sign-Off process and the QA process. *+1. Excellent idea! How would this work? Would the funding organization contract directly with a separate dev to signoff/QA, or would the code developer contract with someone to do this? Would there be a conflict of interest if the funding organization had someone on their staff sign/QA if that person was qualified?* Funding and how would we organize this? Since many in the audience were from the USA - there was discussion of getting a users group going again OR creating some sort of “non-profit like org” where libraries could pool funding towards projects. An organization like this would be able to apply for grants etc. Something where we could crowd-source funding and then fund a developer for a number of hours towards a project. *+1. I also am generally in favor of charging some nominal amount to attend KUG's/conferences. Even if it's just 25 USD--split the amount between the hosting organization for coffee and contribute some to Koha plumbing. US libraries typically can't just donate money to anything, but they certainly are used to paying attendance fees, and $25 or $50 is only a small fraction of the cost of flying and hotels.* . *And as long as I'm on the general subject of funding, I've often thought privately that there should be some way to help out the Horowhenua Library Trust for their work of holding the Koha keys. In an ideal world they should have a 10 million USD trust fund to aggressively support Koha.* My thoughts on some things that we can do in the USA. Have a hackfest in Athen’s Ohio next summer. Next year will be 10 years since Koha migrated to the US and I think it’s about time we have a hackfest here. *+1* I have briefly talked with Owen Leonard about putting this together for next summer... Gauge the interest of a North American Koha users group so at least we are having more of the community meeting together and sharing practices and ideas. Comments from Galen As far as a US or North American user group goes: I think a relaunch should start off with just the goal of hosting a US/NA conference, as it would /not/ be necessary to set up a nonprofit first to run conferences. *+1* We'd just need willing hosts and, if necessary, a firm willing and able to act as a fiscal agent. That's not to say that such a group couldn't pursue nonprofit status later, but we can get a lot of education and user-connecting done without ever having to have a formal organization. Brendan *Staccato comment #1: most of the Koha conferences to date (to the limited extent I'm qualified to comment on this) have been very technically focused. Someday there will begin to be more and more library staff attending, and those people will be more interested in end-user things. And someday I expect that KohaCon's will have different tracks, like code development, system administration and library staff interest. I think we need to start considering our audience soon. * *Staccato comment #2: apologies first, I've long considered the following, but I have some trouble expressing it coherently. Say with a larger project like plumbing, let's presume 250,000 USD is raised by some means by an independent organization, and by some fair and equitable method one of the major Koha support companies or independent developers is selected to do the work. As far as I know, all these qualified entities are already writing Koha code full-time, i.e., nobody has a lawn-care business for their daytime job and only write code when they get funded. So if we take our 250k and pay for a major rewrite, we're taking away from the development pool by substituting paid work for otherwise-compensated work already being done. Assuming we can equate the two types of work (improbable?), there is no net gain. In economic terms, this *somewhat analogous* to an opportunity cost-the cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to achieve a different objective. As I mentioned at the beginning of this block, I struggle somewhat with what this means, if anything, but it would be nice to find a way for major funding developments to have an additive effect. * --
Re: [Koha] Flippin' Yanks
RDA! RDA! RDA! RDA! RDA! RDA! Greg On 10/02/2013 01:40 PM, Magnus Enger wrote: tirsdag 1. oktober 2013 skrev glaws følgende: This does, of course, present the perfect opportunity for a strong progressive organization outside the U.S. to step in and become the New Marc Master of the World. Or we could take it as an opportunity to leave MARC on the scrap heap of history and embrace current technologies instead... :-) Best regards, Magnus Enger Libriotech.no ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Flippin' Yanks
This does, of course, present the perfect opportunity for a strong progressive organization outside the U.S. to step in and become the New Marc Master of the World. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 --- On 10/01/2013 06:16 PM, Robin Sheat wrote: BWS Johnson schreef op ma 30-09-2013 om 11:44 [-0700]: Thanks to our delicate system of governance bad stuff might soon happen to Library of Congress sites. So, if you're getting loc.gov related errors, (Such as setting your z39.50 target as LOC) it's not a Koha issue, it's a freggin U.S. government issue. Patches most welcome. And it looks like it has: http://www.loc.gov/home2/shutdown-message.html Good thing I don't need to be doing any MARC conversions right now...oh wait. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Open source replacement for 3M self check station
I would certainly be interested in giving it a test run if you could post it somewhere. Greg --- On 09/25/2013 02:59 PM, Chad Roseburg wrote: I use remastersys, much like the Live Koha DVD to deploy and image selfchecks. I could make this available as a downloadable iso if anyone was interested trying it out. It would require some site specific changes of course. I have quite a bit of documentation for it, but it is missing a beginner's setup guide for making the site specific changes currently. It is designed for touchscreens and receipt printing out of the box using Epson T88IV or T88V printers. A Star TSP would work with some post-install drivers. We have 2 in our branches that do over 1300 and 2300 transactions each month. I have not updated them for Wheezy yet. Chad On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:12 AM, glaws glaw...@rhcl.org mailto:glaw...@rhcl.org wrote: We do also try to remember that not everybody can do a configure, make, make install, to install software. Some small libraries without tech support staff simply would be unable to use some software if it weren't on a CD or easily downloadable. For these sites I think it makes good sense to just master a Linux .iso that can be installed and just work. If library staff have to install Linux anyway, then a pre-configured Library Kiosk or Self-checkout distro is probably simpler than creating packages, again, for those users who need to minimize their exposure to synaptic or apt-get. Greg - On 09/25/2013 10:45 AM, glaws wrote: I'm not aware there currently exists an open source self-checkout system, however we've long talked about it here at our library. I work with a developer, Aaron Ogle, that is currently building a PAC system, and when he is finished with that if we have the funds available I would like to consider funding a self-checkout development. Having already discussed it, we think it wouldn't be terribly difficult. Aaron already has a generalized framework for similar systems (a children's playstation and a Koha kiosk) that could be easily adapted to a checkout. I should note probably that all the development we support is for open operating systems, and all the funding we've done so far generally uses Linux Mint at the client end. The server side, where utilized, is more generalized, but we typically use Ubuntu and OpenSuse. Unfortunately it seems that you need a system now, and anything we do won't be worked on until at least mid- late-2014. This is, however, a good discussion topic and worth continuing. Greg -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 tel:816-232-5479%20x2303 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Chad Roseburg Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Can't reach web install on Ubuntu 12.04
Triana: Here are a few things to try: --If you are using DNS, can you ping the server using the DNS address? --Can you access the staff interface using the IP address of the server? --On the server itself, assuming you have a windowing desktop installed, can you open the staff interface using localhost? -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 - On 04/12/2013 11:12 AM, Triana Carmenate wrote: I am trying to install Koha on Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop, following the instructions from here http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages. However, when I try to access the administration website it will not open. I am using a dynamic dns. Is there anything I need to configure with apache2 to get my site running? Thanks, tcarm ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Failed Login Attempts
I wonder if piwik or awstats would be able to track those? http://piwik.org/ http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 On 03/26/2013 08:23 AM, Owen Leonard wrote: does Koha notice login failures (incorrect password or user name)? Koha does not track the number of failed logins. It would be a nice feature to add, but no one has offered to contribute it. -- Owen ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Failed Login Attempts
Do you mean the OPAC or the staff client? -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 On 02/21/2013 02:59 AM, Jenny Bellmann wrote: Hello, does Koha notice login failures (incorrect password or user name)? If yes, ... How do I display them? thanks, jenny -- Jenny Bellmann ZE Sprachenzentrum HU-Berlin / Mediothek Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Sitz: Dorotheenstraße 65 Tel.: +49 30 2093 5041 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] OPAC Usage
For reporting and statistical use we are interested in logging visits to our Koha OPAC in two categories--patron logins to the OPAC from outside the library and simple page hits without logins. How are other organizations collecting this data? -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] About the realesed time history....
Somebody should put all that into narrative format, interview some of the early coders, and write a book or something. Greg --- On 01/15/2013 04:59 PM, Robin Sheat wrote: BWS Johnson schreef op di 15-01-2013 om 14:56 [-0800]: This what you're looking for? http://koha-community.org/about/history/ That's quite out of date, this is a more current version: http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=docs/history.txt ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Problem With Scanning Barcodes
For some time our library has experienced problems with scanning library card barcodes into Koha for checkout or book barcodes for cataloging, and the system returns a patron (if library card) or item record (if book), different from that scanned in. The problem appears seemingly at random intervals and infrequently, but in time clusters. It happens at two different locations, on different computers at each location, and with those computers using different barcode readers. This suggests the problem is not related to the client workstations or barcode readers. I'm never close to the computers when this happens, so I can't determine if the barcode numbers are close (off by one digit or initial/terminal digit?), or if there is any other relationship. I suspect neither. I wonder if it may be something internal to Koha; I'm unsure what the time clustering (two days ago it happened approximately eight times) implies. We have also recently changed the system setting CircAutocompl to don't try for a non-related issue; we'll see if that makes a difference with the scanning. Views and comments welcome. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Can we use Unicode to enter records?
You do have the koha user created, right? sudo grep koha /etc/passwd If so, try the following syntax: sudo chown -R koha.koha /path/to/somedir Greg -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 --- On 10/15/2012 04:24 AM, bidadatun wrote: Koustubha Kale wrote What details? Koha will support Unicode input out of the box, so just start making your entries. Or if you are not comfortable applying patches etc you can follow following procedure.. #sudo apt-get install libicu-dev libicu38 yaz-icu Copy following files from /usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab/ to /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/ icu.idx phrases-icu.xml string.chr words-icu.xml Copy /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/words-icu.xml to /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml Edit /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml change icu_chain locale=en to icu_chain locale=en_IN.UTF-8 Save and change ownership of all copied files to koha:koha #sudo chown -R koha:koha /etc/koha/zebradb/etc My purpose : I want to enable arabic searching I've got this error after running : #sudo chown -R koha:koha /etc/koha/zebradb/etc root@koha:/usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab# sudo chown -R koha:koha /etc/koha/zebradb/etc chown: invalid user: `koha:koha' root@koha:/usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab# Should i change chown -R koha:koha /etc/koha/zebradb/etc to chown -R root:root/etc/koha/zebradb/etc ?? Or what should i do? Sorry to suddenly jump into this discussion. Regards, bidadatun ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Recommendation for barcode scanner for a Mac?
Most of the Intermec and Symbol (did Motorola buy them out?) USB barcode readers we've tried work well. Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 --- On 10/09/2012 01:08 PM, Lesley Kimball wrote: Hi all, Is anyone using a barcode scanner with Koha on OS X that you would recommend? Lesley Kimball ~~ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. -- Monty Python, Gorilla Librarian sketch ~~~ Lesley Kimball Director Wiggin Memorial Library Stratham, NH mailto:direc...@wigginml.org direc...@wigginml.org ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Label printers
We use several different HP and Xerox printers here; they all seem to work fine. Enumerated we have a Xerox 3250, an HP P1606 and an HP P1505. All of these are probably out-of-production now, but you can follow the series number for current models. The P1505 is low-end, bigger is probably better. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 On 09/26/2012 06:00 PM, Chad Roseburg wrote: Hello ~ We have just finished configuring and testing labels in Koha and are ready to get started. Can anyone recommend printers? We've had pretty good luck on the color Xerox we've been testing on --- but we'd like to get a BW laser printer for production. Thank you! Chad ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Request for IRC Meeting to Begin Planning KohaCon13
I've never been to a KohaKon; are there typically vendors with booths setup? Greg -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 --- On 08/14/2012 10:03 AM, Keener, Nancy wrote: Hi everyone. Please join us Wednesday August 22nd us for a preliminary IRC meeting to begin planning KohaCon 13. Our main need right now is to determine the number of days for the conference and hackfest. I will then get the local hotel/casinos to begin vying for our business. All of your ideas and help will be greatly appreciated. Here are the links to get you there. The conference site hasn't got much on it yet, but that will change soon. http://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc IRC Channel http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=KohaCon13+Planning+Meetingiso=20120822T08p1=599 Get the right time http://koha-community.org/kohacon/kohacon13-2 Main conference site. Nancy Keener Systems Librarian I.T.O.S.C. Chair Washoe County Library System Reno, Nevada 775 327-8347 nkee...@washoecounty.us ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] reset my database
Just for my own information, why would someone not want to simply drop the database? Is there no script to recreate an empty, default database? I suppose it would be too much work to recreate one with a database tool like phpmyadmin? -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 On 07/11/2012 05:49 AM, Robin Sheat wrote: Op 11-07-12 10:28, umer.ha...@techlogix.com schreef: Hi, I am trying to reset all my database to default. need to delete all the patrons and items and books and whatever the data i have entered in. Please help me with this. what should i do? thanks I have a script: http://paste.koha-community.org/24 that will delete _everything_ from a Koha database. I'm not going to give instructions on how to use it, as it's pretty dangerous, so the time spent working out how to run it will make sure that it's not used frivolously or accidentally, I'll just say that it requires a KOHA_CONF and Koha PERL5LIB defined appropriately. (I use it to clean up development databases when I'm moving between versions and such.) ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] KohaCon 13 Survey Problem
I think the Americans need a good lecture on preference voting. :) -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 On 07/06/2012 07:07 AM, Paul Poulain wrote: Le 06/07/2012 13:38, Nicole Engard a écrit : On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Mason James m...@kohaaloha.com wrote: sorry, your mistake is not enough reason to void the current survey Mason, I would say that the mistake was mine - not the voters' - I didn't explain clearly Maybe that's worth writing the rule somewhere on the wiki page? ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] KohaCon 13 Survey Problem
So that's how preference voting works. Guess I mis-understood. I think we should have a lengthy, detailed debate on the 1,204 different nuances of preference voting w/ mjray, marshall, and a designated NZ representative. Please include all relevant advanced statistical analysis. The last discussion about a year ago was enlightening. Really. Now I'm ready for more. Greg -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 --- On 07/05/2012 12:38 PM, Jared Camins-Esakov wrote: Marc, Yes, please restart the vote. I was not aware that I could only give points to one location. Every location you vote for gets points. It's just that it gets a different number of points depending on whether you rank it 1..5. Regards, Jared ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] [discussion] Privacy issue (bug 3280)
Make it optional at most (syspref), off by default. Greg -- On 07/03/2012 11:17 AM, Paul Poulain wrote: Hello Koha users developers, The bug 3280 fixes a problem in cart sending in opac : the behaviour has changed, and for security reason, it will be possible only for logged-in users. A question has also been raised : we could also add the IP address of the sender in the mail that Koha sent. Do you think : 1- we could 2- we should 3- we shouldn't (and why) I start arguing = I think we should, and in France, I think it's a legal issue, you must be able to answer any legal request from a court (9-11, thank you :\ ) It's right we have the username, but the IP address is a good complement ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] KohaMoble
http://www.skycasters.com/ Rolling Hills Library is attempting to raise funds to purchase a bookmobile, which will use our existing Koha database with remote (Internet) connections. We would also like to provide Internet access via a couple of stations in the van if possible. All this depends on our ability to raise the funds necessary to purchase the bookmobile, but we hope to be able to do that early next spring (2013). 1. Is anyone using such a system currently with Koha? I would be interested in learning from your experiences. 2. I'd like to document our process, from purchase to full usage, as a lessons learned for everyone to benefit from. What things would you like to know as I do this? 3. One of the methods of Internet access we will be looking at is Skycaster (link above). Any comments or suggestions on this service? We may also have a mobile wifi hotspot so local access can be provided to users with their own devices. Comment: I am a strong supporter of free, open-source software. It is my intention to run everything in the bookmobile on Linux, probably Mint or Ubuntu. If I can sneak it in, I may try to get some promo lettering on the van somewhere that says We run Koha and Linux!, and maybe a penguin and the Koha logo. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] KohaMoble
Uh, that would be KohaMobile... Daem spell checker didn't have kohamobile in the database... Greg -- On 06/07/2012 12:30 PM, glaws wrote:..., ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Now: Cemetery - Was: Recent Comments page
That's exactly what I was thinking. It wouldn't be difficult at all to put this on Mysql (or postgresql or Firebird) and whip up a php interface to it. Easy as pie. Wonder if there's an ISO standard for cemetery data fields or a MARC record equivalent? Surely the Europeans (English, French and Germans), with their long history of record-keeping of cemeteries, have come up with some schema. We have all these different applications for databasing things. We have Koha/EG for books and DSpace for digitized works and Gramps for geneology and something for cemeteries, and they all track info that is roughly analogous. We need a grand unifying theory for all this stuff-like UNIMARC2013. I have this general understanding that Evergreen likes to put the interface/app on one machine and the database on another. I suspect that would be a good design--load Koha/EG and DSpace and Gramps and whatever interface on a single machine, and the database(s) on another? Greg -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 -- On 05/17/2012 07:17 AM, Randall Rowe wrote: My personal choice for a database such as this would be MySQL since it's already installed for Koha :-) Randy Rowe Lincoln City Libraries I.T. -Original Message- From: glaws glaw...@rhcl.org Sent 5/16/2012 3:40:33 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Recent Comments page Sue: I found the cemetary link on your Koha OPAC site interesting. Here's a sample pull I was looking at: http://public.stdc.govt.nz/cemeteries/ Record Number : 4425 Name : Estate of Charlotte Ann Smith Section : Eltham General Anglican New Plot ID : 105 Block : 10 Row : Old Plot No : 16 Interment Status : Occupied Plot Notes : X Coord : Y Coord: Funeral Co-ordinator : Date Of Death : 12/12/1964 Date Of Interment : 14/12/1964 Date Of Birth : Type Of Interment : Burial Depth Of Plot : Double Deceased Age - Years : 0 - Months : 0 - Weeks : - Days : - Hours : Occupation : Place Of Death : Marital Status : Gender : Denomination : Anglican Nationality : Birth Place : Headstone Photo : Officiating : Obviously this isn't databased in Koha, so apparently you have this in a custom (Microsoft?) database? Anyone: I rather wonder if DSpace would be a good DB for this type of info? - Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 -- On 05/16/2012 03:15 PM, Sue McMillan wrote: Hi Hal, South Taranaki District Libraries have comments available. http://ils.stdc.govt.nzSusan McMillan Cataloguing and Systems Librarian| South Taranaki District Council 105-111 Albion St, Private Bag 902, Hawera 4610, NZ Phone: +64 6 278 0555 | www.southtaranaki.com -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Hal Bright Does anyone have the recent comments page options activated on their public catalog? I would like to take a look at it.This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorised and may be illegal. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002. pbCAN'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS?/b/p The Council has upgraded to Microsoft office 2007 suite. This may mean you cannot open attachments if you have older versions of office. a href=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466displaylang=en; Click here to access Microsoft Office 2007's compatibility website.a/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha �� ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Recent Comments page
Sue: I found the cemetary link on your Koha OPAC site interesting. Here's a sample pull I was looking at: http://public.stdc.govt.nz/cemeteries/ Record Number : 4425 Name : Estate of Charlotte Ann Smith Section : Eltham General Anglican New Plot ID : 105 Block : 10 Row : Old Plot No : 16 Interment Status : Occupied Plot Notes : X Coord : Y Coord: Funeral Co-ordinator : Date Of Death : 12/12/1964 Date Of Interment : 14/12/1964 Date Of Birth : Type Of Interment : Burial Depth Of Plot : Double Deceased Age - Years : 0 - Months : 0 - Weeks : - Days : - Hours : Occupation : Place Of Death : Marital Status : Gender : Denomination : Anglican Nationality : Birth Place : Headstone Photo : Officiating : Obviously this isn't databased in Koha, so apparently you have this in a custom (Microsoft?) database? Anyone: I rather wonder if DSpace would be a good DB for this type of info? - Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 -- On 05/16/2012 03:15 PM, Sue McMillan wrote: Hi Hal, South Taranaki District Libraries have comments available. http://ils.stdc.govt.nz Susan McMillan Cataloguing and Systems Librarian| South Taranaki District Council 105-111 Albion St, Private Bag 902, Hawera 4610, NZ Phone: +64 6 278 0555 | www.southtaranaki.com -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Hal Bright Does anyone have the recent comments page options activated on their public catalog? I would like to take a look at it. This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorised and may be illegal. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002. pbCAN'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS?/b/p The Council has upgraded to Microsoft office 2007 suite. This may mean you cannot open attachments if you have older versions of office. a href=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466displaylang=en; Click here to access Microsoft Office 2007's compatibility website.a/ ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Koha 3.8.1 entering string freeze
On 05/14/2012 04:56 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: Hi All As promised, the 3.8.x branch has entered string freeze in preparation for the 3.8.1 release next week. So? you ask, What does this mean for me? Are you a developer? - If so just be aware I will only be pushing patches that do not contain changes to any of the translatable strings from now until the release. Are you a translator? - Once the translation manager emails to say the po files are updated, you are clear to translate your hearts out. Are you a Koha user? - If you have the skills or know someone who does, check out the 3.8.x and do some testing on it, that would be awesome. Are you a brewer? - I quite like a nice IPA Chris ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha - I had to check the wikipedia.po file for the IPA translation string. Greg ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
