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Request for interviewees - qualitative study on women and open source
by D Ruth Bavousett 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

I received this on the LinuxChix announcements list--some of the ladies here might be interested in this, in particular, though she is calling for some men, as well: >*snip!* Hello LinuxChix! My name is Sarah Riggs and I am a Master's Degree seeking candidate at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. I am conducting research which addresses the large gender gap in the open source community. In 2006, a team of researchers sought to capture an image of women contributors to open source software, as it was clear that women made up a very small minority of participants (Nafus, Leach, & Kriegar, 2006). Several proactive members of your community then implemented programs aimed at increasing the number of women in open source; however, little research has been done since this study. By conducting qualitative interviews, my intention is to collect narratives about the experiences of open source participants. I will ask questions about your experiences joining and participating in the open source community. Your answers will be used to to identify ways in which more women can feel comfortable joining the community and contributing to open source software development. I would like to hear thoughts from women as well as men who are open source contributors. Please consider participating whether you are just starting out, or have been contributing to open source for many years. It is important for this research to obtain a diverse group of respondents with varied backgrounds so this research constructs a representative narrative of experience. I will be conducting interviews through July 20th, 2011, and I will be happy to meet you at a time and date at your convenience. Those volunteers who are selected will be allowed to decide the method of participation, and phone calls, face-to-face interaction, or Internet Relay Chat are valid means of communication. Exhaustive efforts will be made to ensure that any information you give me is confidential, and you are always free to stop the interview at any time. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions. I can be best reached by e-mail, smriggs at email dot unc dot edu** Thank you for your time, Sarah Riggs Principal Investigator Research Approved by IRB, UNC-Chapel Hill* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science <http://sils.unc.edu/>* Reference: Nafus, D., Leach, J. & Kriegar, B. (2006). *Gender: Integrated Report of Findings* (Deliverable -- 16).* *Retrieved from Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Policy Support,* http://www.flosspols.org/deliverables/FLOSSPOLS-D16-Gender_Integrated_Repor… * >*snip!* -- *D Ruth Bavousett* Lead Migration Specialist ByWater Solutions Support and Consulting for Open Source Software VISIT US AT ALA: BOOTH 732 Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA Office: Washington, DC Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ruth(a)bywatersolutions.com

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Koha 3.4.1 upgarde - failed: Access denied for user 'kohaadmin'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
by ISM KIS 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

I am still in the process of upgrading our Koha from 3.00.06 to 3.4.1 Installation is ok. I could import the data from 3.0.6 and did the database update from the :8080 interface. But then when I run the script to remove the biblioitems I get the following error message: koha34:/opt/kohaclone/misc/maintenance # perl remove_items_from_biblioitems.pl --run DBI connect('dbname=koha;host=localhost;port=3306','kohaadmin',...) failed: Access denied for user 'kohaadmin'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /opt/kohaclone/koha-tmpl/lib/C4/Context.pm line 692 Access denied for user 'kohaadmin'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /opt/kohaclone/koha-tmpl/lib/C4/Context.pm line 692. What does that mean? ( By the way: I' m able to access mysql -ukohaadmin -pxxxxx ) Any ideas? Rudy Wuthrich Kodaikanal International School

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Date and time of next Kohacon11 volunteers meeting
by Koustubha Kale 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:38 PM, MJ Ray <mjr(a)phonecoop.coop> wrote: > > Koustubha Kale wrote: > > I had to miss the last scheduled volunteers meeting and since there were > > only two attendees they decided to postpone the meeting. > > > > Attendance at Kohacon11 volunteers meeting in the #koha irc channel has been > > poor. So here I am requesting the community to discuss & decide over email > > exchange, the date and timing of the next meeting so that as many as > > possible people may attend. > > The key thing is to get you or others on-site to attend, so could > you please pick some times you can make and then put up a poll? > > We've sometimes used m.doodle.com for that, Ok. here we go. I have tried to cover the bases a bit here. Poll "Kohacon11 : Date and time of next volunteers meeting" http://doodle.com/28um6kk9c2d2r2qw Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2

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Trouble with CSS files after creating package with translations
by Magnus Enger 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Hi! I recently built my first debian package, based on the 3.4.x branch from git, and with the addition of having installed translations for the Nordic languages. (I'll write up the process of doing that on the wiki, once I'm sure I have the correct steps.) I used the Perl version of build-git-snapshot provided by attachment 4007 from bug 5602 to build the packages: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5602 (I'll sign off on the patch once I see the resulting package working, I promise! ;-) After installing the package and creating a library I noticed that a couple of CSS files are missing from the OPAC when it is viewed in any language other then English, making it look weird: http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/ Firebug tells me these two files can not be found, when the language is not English: http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/lib/yui/reset-fonts-grids.css - 404 Not Found http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/lib/yui/skin.css - 404 Not Found But when I view the front page in English, those two files *are* found, but from a different path: http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/reset-fonts-grids.css - 200 OK http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/skin.css - 200 OK The contents of the css-folders for the two languages are quite different: http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/ [TXT] colors.css 05-May-2011 20:59 0 [TXT] hierarchy.css 05-May-2011 20:59 1.5K [IMG] menu-button-arrow-disabled.png 22-May-2011 14:59 173 [IMG] menu-button-arrow.png 22-May-2011 14:59 173 [TXT] opac.css 22-May-2011 14:59 34K [TXT] print.css 05-May-2011 20:59 3.1K [TXT] reset-fonts-grids.css 22-May-2011 14:59 5.0K [TXT] sanop.css 05-May-2011 20:59 28K [TXT] sco.css 22-May-2011 14:59 4.0K [TXT] skin.css 22-May-2011 14:59 84K [IMG] split-button-arrow-active.png 22-May-2011 14:59 280 [IMG] split-button-arrow-disabled.png 22-May-2011 14:59 185 [IMG] split-button-arrow-focus.png 22-May-2011 14:59 185 [IMG] split-button-arrow-hover.png 22-May-2011 14:59 185 [IMG] split-button-arrow.png 22-May-2011 14:59 185 [IMG] sprite.png 22-May-2011 14:59 3.0K (The en folder in the demo on mykoha.co.nz is identical to the folder above: http://demo.mykoha.co.nz/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/ ) http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/nb-NO/css/ [TXT] colors.css 22-May-2011 08:34 0 [TXT] hierarchy.css 22-May-2011 08:34 1.5K [TXT] opac.css 22-May-2011 08:34 34K [TXT] print.css 22-May-2011 08:34 3.1K [TXT] sanop.css 22-May-2011 08:34 28K [TXT] sco.css 22-May-2011 08:34 4.0K The contents of the lib/yui directory are also different on a regular dev install: http://sksk.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/lib/yui/ (5 CSS files, 3 directories, 1 PNG) and a packaged install: http://esme.priv.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/lib/yui/ (lots of directories, no CSS, no PNG) http://demo.mykoha.co.nz/opac-tmpl/prog/en/lib/yui/ On a non-package (dev) install the contents of the corresponding folders are the same for en and nb-NO - and they are the same as the 6 files listed for nb-NO above. http://sksk.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/ http://sksk.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/nb-NO/css/ On a working non-package (dev) installation the files are taken from the en folder, where they are indeed to be found: http://sksk.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/en/lib/yui/ http://sksk.bibkat.no/opac-tmpl/prog/nb-NO/lib/yui/ On the virtual machine where I built the package, the contents of the two css-directories are also the same, and they are the 6 files listed for nb-NO above. Looks to me like the packaging/packages is doing some rearranging of the CSS files that only works for the English templates and not for templates translated into other languages? Are there any package gurus out there who are able to see what is going on? Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no

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Summary of Global Signoff Day 2011-06-15 - more to come?
by Magnus Enger 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Dear Community! * GSOD #1 Our very first Global Signoff Day (GSOD) was held on 2011-06-15. During the 48 hours that make up a day in all available time zones, we reduced the number of bugs that had status "Needs signoff" from about 76 to about 45. (There were some bugs that got the "Needs Signoff" status during the day, which complicates counting somewhat...) You can see a more or less complete list of what bugs were changed here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Global_sign_off_day,_2011-06-15 See the bottom of this page for some more numbers, and keep in mind that the dates there are relative to UTC: http://bugs.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/progress.pl As far as I can tell we were about 6 people signing off on things during GSOD #1, which is not an astronomical figure, but i still think we made some good inroads into the queue. (A number of the remaining bugs are actually ones that depend on other bugs that have failed QA, so they are not really available for signing off.) Imagine what we could have done if there were more of us... ;-) * GSOD #2 BibLibre have said all their staff will dedicate half a day every two weeks to signing off on bugs and similar tasks (woohoo!). I would like to propose another GSOD to coincide with their first such day, which is scheduled for 2011-07-08. Motto: "The more, the merrier"! Some questions spring to mind: - How can we get more people involved? - Should the name of the "event" reflect that other activities (such as closing bugs) are encouraged too? - How can we make it even more fun? -- Better/other lists and visualisations? -- Could we have the huginn bot on IRC annonunce new signoffs, the same way it does "needs signoff"s? -- Could we use some kind of VoIP/videoconferencing tools to make the social interactions seem more um... "real"? Or is GSOD a really bad idea, would it be better to channel our energy into making signoffs (and similar activities) look more like an ongoing task, and less something you only have to think about once a month? Best regards, Magnus Enger

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bug 4406 - missing LSB information
by Mahesh T Pai 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

I have put this in header of koha-zebra-daemon on my system. Of course, taken from soem other script in init.d/ and modified. So, it may cast a spell on other systems. Feel free to junk or accept this. <begin quote> ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: koha-zebra-daemon # Required-Start: $syslog $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $syslog $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Koha-zebra-daemon ### END INIT INFO </end quote> I do not know why $remote_fs is required - probably if syslog writes to a remote file system?? And cannot figure why this should run in any other runlevel other than 2. Of coruse, feel free to discuss and modify as required; it just works for me. -- Mahesh T. Pai || The next best thing to knowing something is to know where to find it. --Samuel Johnson

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Koha Security best practises
by Mahesh T Pai 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Is a best practises document available for securing a System running Koha? I mean beyond whatever documentation is available for OSes in general, is there anything Koha specific to look into? I cannot think of anything beyond filtering out incoming traffic to ports other than 80 and 8080, and long complicated passwords. -- Mahesh T. Pai || Sent from my Computer. Running Debian GNU/Linux

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Wrong Links on Staff Client. (v. 3.4.1)
by Mahesh T Pai 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

I know this ought be reported as a bug, but I am still just finding my way around the project and the community, so will first report it here. Situation:- Default install; of koha 3.4.1 on Debian. the database created by 3.000.1XX is restored, upgraded, the web installer has only asked the kohaadmin user the password and username. After doing the nitty and gritty of updating the database from 3.<whatever> version to 3.4.1, the web installer has forced the kohaadmin user to relogin, and I am now looking at the staff client page. On Left hand side, I am looking at the column starting with "News". Here is the entire html source as rendered in the browser. (beginquote) <div class="yui-b"> <div id="koha-news"> <h3>News</h3> <div class="newsitem" id="news2"><h4>What's Next?</h4> <p>Now that you've installed Koha, what's next? Here are some suggestions: <ul> <li><a href="http://kohadocs.org">Read Koha Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="http://wiki.koha.org">Read/Write to the Koha Wiki</a></li> <li><a href="http://koha.org/community/mailing-lists.html">Read and Contribute to Discussions</a></li> <li><a href="http://bugs.koha.org">Report Koha Bugs</a></li> <li><a href="http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage">Submit Patches to Koha using Git (Version Control System)</a></li> <li><a href="http://koha.org/community/irc.html">Chat with Koha users and developers</a></li> </ul> </p> <p class="newsfooter"> Posted on 29/10/2007 <a href="/cgi-bin/koha/tools/koha-news.pl?op=add_form&id=2">Edit</a> | <a href="/cgi-bin/koha/tools/koha-news.pl?op=del&ids=2">Delete</a> | <a href="/cgi-bin/koha/tools/koha-news.pl?op=add_form">New</a></p></div> </div> </div> </div> (endquote) I am not sure if the links in <li> items at top of the HTML snippet is a relic from the older backup; but surely, the installer / updater scripts should take care to fix them, right? Except the link to kohadocs.org, and koha.org (the LibLime one) site, all other links give me an error message - and I believe that this has nothing to do with dns resolution. (I use google's DNS). I suspect this snippet occurs the way it does because I have restored a backup (made using mysqldump) from 3.000.107 (will confirm later). -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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Koha 3.2.10 is now available
by Chris Nighswonger 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.2.10. Note: This is potentially the final release of the 3.2.x branch. Please act accordingly with new implementations and upgrades. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.10.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.10.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.10.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.10.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.2.10 are below. Come and get it! RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.2.10 - 19 June 2011 ======================================================================== Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org/ Koha 3.2.10 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.09.tar.gz Installation instructions can be found at: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING 3.2.x EOL ======================================================================== With the release of 3.4.1, the 3.2.x branch is nearing its EOL. A motion will be made at the August 2011 general IRC meeting to officially announce EOL for the 3.2.x branch. Unless someone or some entity steps forward to take over 3.2.x maintenance, this date will mark the official EOL for the 3.2.x branch. Please keep this in mind when planning new deployments and upgrades to existing systems. Highlights of 3.2.10 ====================== This release marks over 700 commits since the release of 3.2.0. That represents nearly 90 commits per month since 3.2.0! Congratulations are due to the entire community for all of the hard work which has gone into improving Koha during this release cycle! Some of the higher profile bugs addressed in this release are: 2246 Label printing doesn't work with Unicode characters (Improved work-around rather than a fix.) 3072 'Heading-Main' authority-index breaks authority searching in STABLE 4993 ldap search always anonymous when using auth_by_bind 5860 Adding duplicate stocknumber will fail silently 5094 auth_by_bind authentication can fail even if given a correct password and userid Bugs fixed in 3.2.10 ====================== 3013 Value builder for 006 and 008 need choices for all format types 5653 default new label layout and sample data have broken call number placeholder 5684 Z3950 search on OCLC pulls in items (tag 952) 6061 C4::Context clearing up system preference on update 6131 (unimarc only) improper index name for personal-name 6091 Remove undeclared syspref OPACAdvSearchInputCount 6152 Authority-zebra-indexdefs.xsl should indicate it's automatically generated 6218 patron login gets an initial dot added when no first name 6315 depreciation warnings in C4::Serials in new perls 6350 Bug for tracking updates to the history file 6401 Give Ian Walls credit in the history file. 5760 Add the jquery table sorter to borrowers reading record System Requirements ====================== Changes since 3.0: * The minimum version of Perl required is now 5.8.8. * There are a number of new Perl module dependencies. Run ./koha_perl_deps.pl -u -m to get a list of any new modules to install during upgrade. Upgrades ====================== The structure of the acquisitions tables have changed significantly from 3.0.x. In particular, the budget hierarchy is quite different. During an upgrade, a new database table is created called fundmapping that contains a record of how budgets were mapped. It is strongly recommended that users of Koha 3.0.x acquisitions carefully review the results of the upgrade before resuming ordering in Koha 3.2.x. Documentation ====================== As of Koha 3.2, the Koha manual is now maintained in DocBook. The home page for Koha documentation is http://koha-community.org/documentation/ As of the date of these release notes, several translations of the Koha manual are available: English: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/ Spanish: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-es/ French: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual-fr/ The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=summary Translations ====================== Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages: * Chinese * Danish * English (New Zealand) * English (USA) * French (France) * French (Canada) * German * Greek * Hindi * Italian * Norwegian * Portuguese * Spanish * Turkish Partial translations are available for various other languages. The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer: http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate The most up-to-date translations can be found at: http://translate.koha-community.org/ Release Team ====================== The release team for Koha 3.2 is Release Manager: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt(a)gmail.com> Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> Translation Manager: Chris Cormack <chris(a)bigallofwax.co.nz> Release Maintainer (3.0.x): Henri-Damien Laurent <henridamien.laurent(a)biblibre.com> Release Maintainer (3.2.x): Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger(a)foundations.edu> Credits ====================== We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 3.2.10: Alex Arnaud Jared Camins-Esakov Colin Campbell Fernando Canizo FrÃ©dÃ©rick Capovilla Galen Charlton Tomas Cohen Arazi Chris Cormack Jeremy Crabtree FrÃ©dÃ©ric Demians Jonathan Druart Katrin Fischer Owen Leonard Chris Nighswonger Dobrica Pavlinusic Marcel de Rooy Salvador Zaragoza Rubio ruth(a)bywatersolutions.com Fridolyn Somers We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertantly missed, please send patch against these release notes to koha-patches(a)lists.koha-community.org. The 3.2.x Release Maintainer especially thanks the 3.6 Release Team and all who participated in QA for their diligent labors in testing and pushing well over 700 patches since the 3.2.0 relese. Their continued work very much makes possible the release of 3.2.10 on its announced schedule. Revision control notes ====================== The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git The branch for Koha 3.2.x (i.e., this version of Koha and future bugfix releases) is 3.2.x. The next major feature release of Koha will be Koha 3.4.0. Bugs and feature requests ====================== Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at http://bugs.koha-community.org/ Naku te rourou, nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.

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Newsletter Call for Articles
by Nicole Engard 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

It's that time again and shockingly I already have three articles (without asking). If you have an article you want in the newsletter please get it to me before the 21st of June so that I can finish up the newsletter before I go out of town for ALA. Thanks Nicole

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