Category Archives: Education, Training and Information

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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55% of Ecommerce Sites Tested Misled Consumers

2009-09-14 by mjr

There will be an EU crackdown on websites selling consumer electronic goods which is entirely understandable when 203 out of 369 sites appeared to break the law. (first seen on BBC News) If you’re a shop owner, the good site … 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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Everyone and his dog has their multihost ssh so why not me?

2009-08-28 by mjr

I call this sshtomany: #!/bin/bash cmd=”$*” cmd=”${cmd/#* . /}” [ “$cmd” = “$*” ] && echo “Usage: $0 [HOSTS] . [COMMAND]” && exit 127 while [ “$1” != . ] && ssh $1 -vt $cmd ; do echo Success at … Continue reading →

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Python 3 and Backwards Compatibility?

2009-08-18 by mjr

A while ago, we had a big discussion in the software.coop about what programming language we should prefer when we have a completely free choice. Ultimately, while all the workers have our own favourites (like my Lisp and Perl bias), … Continue reading →

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#ukgovoss and Poor gov.uk Websites

2009-08-17 by mjr

Using gov.uk websites is an ordeal at the best of time. Even the most polished websites tend to reflect the structure of the government body, which I find counter-intuitive – and I’m a councillor who pays attention to these things. … 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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