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Final Decision Time: Koha Foundation Options

2009-10-23 by mjr

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 →

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Koha.org Desires Poll Results

2009-10-07 by mjr

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 →

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Reminder: Meeting about a Koha Foundation

2009-09-15 by mjr

A quick reminder about the meeting about forming a Koha foundation in a few hours. The agenda and information links are on the wiki. I’d really like to see everyone invoved in koha development there, or you could leave comments … Continue reading →

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Meeting about forming a Koha Foundation, 15 September 2009

2009-09-10 by mjr

Following suggestions by some other koha developers and with an increasing amount of silence from long-time koha community supporters liblime, we’ve called an IRC meeting next Tuesday. We’re concerned that our community is currently not sustainable: the withdrawal of any … Continue reading →

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Koha meetings and case studies

2009-09-02 by mjr

It’s been a fairly good month working with Koha for me. Our co-op installed Koha 3.0 for a few more libraries and had quite a few enquiries. This means our test servers still need upgrading to 3.0.3, which is disappointing, … Continue reading →

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FOSS Screencast Tools?

2009-08-07 by mjr

As I wrote yesterday, the Koha IRC meeting started discussing tutorials for new contributors. I’d really like to avoid expecting people to use non-free software to learn about contributing to free software. Too many so-called webinars are not webinars. I … Continue reading →

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Koha IRC Meeting August 2009

2009-08-06 by mjr

Quite a good turnout for the Koha general IRC meeting yesterday. I think the headlines are: 3.2 enters a soft feature freeze for end of 2009-09-06; UTF-8 problems and circulation bugs are blockers or criticals for 3.2; user testing of … Continue reading →

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Amazon Kindle Un-selling Books

2009-07-27 by mjr

I’ve been reading ebooks for years, since I had a Palm IIIe. It’s probably approaching ten years, looking at the sale date of the IIIe. Now I read them on my mobile phone (see app 7). One common thread all … Continue reading →

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OCLC Record Use: Reboot

2009-07-07 by mjr

Disruptive Library Technology Jester reports that OCLC Formally Withdraws Proposed Record Use Policy. The Series Table of Contents there gives a pretty good history, or you can read my past comments in Libraries, Cooperatives, OCLC and TTLLP and OCLC Library … Continue reading →

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Koha IRC General Meeting Report

2009-05-07 by mjr

The Koha IRC General Meeting finished quite late for us Europeans, so LibLime Developers’ Blog: Koha project IRC meeting (Galen Charlton) was the first report to appear. Rather than repeat it here, go read it there. See you on the … Continue reading →

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