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Category Archives: Koha
Welcome to Koha-Community.org
At last night’s #koha community hand-over meeting, it was felt that the LL/PTFS transfer could easily delay community control of the previous koha website for 3 months, so HLT should register a fan site for community members to put the … Continue reading
The Koha Company-go-round
While I was under snow last week, the world saw a flurry of Koha company news. We found out that PTFS is to acquire LibLime and ByWater Solutions and BibLibre are partnering for the U.S. With the past ByWater Solutions … Continue reading
Koha Blogs Page Back Online
The Koha Community Blogs was broken over Christmas. It’s now back online and using the same collection of feeds as the microblogging services. A full list of Koha Social Networks is on the wiki.
2009 Top 10 Software Cooperative News
Amazon Kindle Un-selling Books was the most-viewed news item on my blog this year. Once again, a lock-out/bad-business story takes the top spot. I don’t think that one got as much coverage in the mainstream media as they usually do, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Koha, SPI, Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged #ukgovOSS, amazon, apache, authentication, board, Cooperatives, foundation, httpd, j2me, kindle, midp, pam, richard, rothwell, security, SPI, ssh, top 10, windows 7
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On The Road, #online09 and #koha
It was great to meet the newest member of our co-op yesterday and discuss a new ethical business referral network, but I’ve barely spent any time back at home and I’m heading out again, partly to visit online09 and IMS, … Continue reading
Top 10 Crimes of Developer Engagement: a common problem?
savs seemed to agonise about posting it but I think his Top 10 crimes of Developer Engagement is spot on even if it might not be as amusing as Aral Balkan’s similar message. I think it applies to my recent … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/Linux, Koha
Tagged crimes, developer, engagement, fsfe, open standards, rfid, savs
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Who wikis Who in British Librarianship
It’s great to discover this experimental wikified version of W. A. Munford’s Who was Who in British Librarianship 1800-1985 (1987). As a statistician who has strayed into serving libraries, I don’t know many of the famous names and a lot … Continue reading
US Defense or Sirsi-Dynix – which is more credible?
Most librarians probably already know this, but maybe the programmers don’t yet. A SirsiDynix Corp lobby paper against Open Source technologies escaped onto the internet. SirsiDynix is a competitor of our co-op with products that compete with Koha. They’re also … Continue reading
Final Decision Time: Koha Foundation Options
Thomas Dukleth writes in: “Remember to vote for your choices in the final Koha foundation forming election before the poll closes on the 25th. Turnout in the final Koha foundation forming election is lower than in the previous preliminary poll … Continue reading
Posted in Koha, SPI
Tagged association, forming, foundation, Koha, organisation, poll, voting
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Koha.org Desires Poll Results
Here are the results of the Koha Foundation Desires poll. More than 75% of respondants support the Koha foundation/association doing these things:- 1. ensure the ongoing shared governance of the project = 32 out of 35 = 91.43% 2. owning … Continue reading