Category Archives: Koha

Reminder: Meeting about a Koha Foundation

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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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Koha IRC General Meeting

There will be a general meeting on the #koha IRC channel on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 at 19:00 UTC with a nominal finish time of 21:00. To convert to your timezone, try date -d @1241636400 (thanks to SPI (Joerg?) for … Continue reading

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KohaCon09 remotely

Irma and Bob of CALYX information essentials wrote in: “For those interested and not able to participate in the KohaCon 09 action in Plano. Some conferees are Twittering: Cover it live or pipes. Some are blogging Some again are having … Continue reading

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