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Koha Con Survey
by Nicole Engard 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Here is the right link to this survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFJWZm83SlZudDQ1bWI3Z2pBal… --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce(a)liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

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Fwd: KohaCon 2009 Feedback and update!
by dschust1＠tx.rr.com 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Please forgive all the cross posting - I wanted to give everyone the opportunity to provide feedback to KohaCon2009 - even if you didn't attend - but also to provide the community information about the sessions!

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Regional Hackfests
by Chris Cormack 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi All After coming back home from the Koha conference and following developer conference. I have been thinking how productive and useful it was for the developers to be in a room together. Now as we are spread across the globe this is not able to occur very often, but what we could do is try to organise regional hack fests. I'm just throwing the idea out there at this point, without any concrete ideas of how it could work. Here in wellington nz we have super happy dev house http://superhappydevhouse.org.nz/ and I know this is based on the same idea in the US. One day, in a bar or a hotel or somewhere with wifi, that doesnt charge much, where developers can get together and throw ideas around. Anyway, it's just an idea at this point to see if there is any enthusiasm. I know that I plan to get together with Mason and Bob in Wellington, and whoever else is interested. Chris

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Folded plugin on Koha's DokuWiki
by Pablo A. Bianchi 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hi! Sometimes articles becomes very big but because of their structure is not useful to divide them. Usually the problem is are the portions of source code. It could be great to have the possibility to fold some parts of the article, even to have everything more tidy and clear. For this exist a plugin for DokuWiki: Folded http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:folded There is any problem to install it on wiki.koha.org? Cheers, Pablo

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Koha project IRC meeting
by Galen Charlton 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hi, I would like to call 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. I would like to hold this meeting monthly, and I'll arbitrarily pick the first Wednesday of every month. I would appreciate feedback on the time of day I've selected; I'm thinking of rotating the meeting time each month so that no one timezone always ends up having the IRC meeting fall in the middle of the night. Here are some items I would like to discuss. 1. Koha 3.2/tip status and timeline 2. Koha 3.0.x status 3. Koha bugs database 4. KohaCon 2009 report Please use this thread to suggest any other discussion topics. The #koha IRC channel (irc://irc.katipo.co.nz/#koha) can be accessed with the following settings: Server: irc.katipo.co.nz Port: 6667 Chanel: #koha Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha 3.2 Release Manager VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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GSAFD authority records and koha
by Mason James 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hi folks has anyone had any experience using GSAFD authority records with Koha3 I have imported them just fine into a koha3 using the DOM zebra-filter But, i cant quite get a match on them using the link_bibs_to_authorities.pl script I've double checked, and everything looks to be set up to handle them correctly-ish specifically.. - Heading.pm - Heading/MARC21.pm and .. - authority-zebra-indexdefs.xsl file --------------------------------------------------- <xslo:when test="$thesaurus_code1 = 'z'"> <xslo:choose> <xslo:when test="//marc:datafield[@tag='040']/ marc:subfield[@code='f']"> <xslo:value-of select="//marc:datafield[@tag='040']/ marc:subfield[@code='f']"/> </xslo:when> <xslo:otherwise> <xslo:text>notdefined</xslo:text> --------------------------------------------------- I'm currently debugging this, and thought i would ask? any ideas? Mason. GSAFD info and download links below http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/resources/org/cat/ marc21authority.cfm http://alcme.oclc.org/gsafd/OAIHandler? verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=z39_19 http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public/gsafd/

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KOHA 3: problem with item call number
by neelawat 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

Dear Sir, I have imported bib (.mrc) to koha 3. After imported, the system can automatically add item(s) but the field 'Item call number' is blank. In System Preferences Admin: Cataloguing Preferences, I set the parameters as follows: ----------------------------------------------------- - DefaultClassificationSource lcc - ItemCallNumber 050ab ----------------------------------------------------- Why the system does not auto-generate and display the item call number on the screen? I do not know whether I have done wrong with the system preferences? Could you guide me about this issue? I already spent almost a week trying to solve this problem. Please kindly help. Best regards, Neelawat KOHA, Thailand

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Developer Tips & Tricks from KohaCon 2009
by Nicole Engard 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

Hi all, I was asked to take notes during the Tips & Tricks session at the KohaCon Developers' Meeting - so here you all go: http://blogs.liblime.com/developers/2009/04/19/tips-tricks-from-koha-develo… --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce(a)liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

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Summary of Koha developers' meeting day 1 (4/18/2009)
by Galen Charlton 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

Hi, Here are a few quick notes from the first day of the post-KohaCon developers' meeting held today. About twenty people attended or dropped by the meeting in person, with another five or so commenting via #koha and others following along via Twitter. After a round of introductions and a little planning of the agenda, Paul Poulain started the morning with a good overview of the structure of Koha, C4, and how to write Koha CGI scripts. Next, Joe Atzberger presented a tutorial on Git, covering how to clone the Koha repository, create branches, add commits, generate patches, and submit them. After lunch, I continued the Git presentation by showing how to apply patches and deal with merge conflicts. The next part of the afternoon was a hackfest, during which several enhancements and bugfixes were prepared and pushed, including: * A history file for Koha, docs/history.txt * bug 3013: significant improvements to the cataloging editor plugin for setting the 007 field in MARC21 records * bug 1545: adding the ability to edit the SQL of guided reports * fixes for low-numbered bugs, including 908, 918, and 948 * a fix for the longstanding MARC21 UTF8 encoding problem for bib records entered via acquisitions * another ten or so bugfixes and small improvements One interesting project that was worked on during the hackfest is Jesse Weaver's new user interface for setting system preferences that will help users configure Koha by making the preferences more self-documenting. A particularly nice outcome of the hackfest is that several new and potential contributors had an opportunity to learn the mechanics of writing and submitting patches, and many of us learned new tips and tricks for Git. At the end of the afternoon, several Koha projects items were discussed. As a result of these discussions, I will be sending out proposals for several points, including: * (Re)starting a weekly update newsletter for changes to Koha 3.2 * I will be calling a monthly IRC meeting to discuss the status of Koha development. * Making some improvements to using the bug database to record who is working on various bugs and enhancements. * Setting a convention to tag regressions so that they get a higher priority for bugfixes. * Making use of the bug voting feature in Bugzilla to help Koha users and contributors prioritize bugs. I will be following up on each of these points in more detail in subsequent emails to the koha and koha-devel mailing lists. The log of the #koha IRC channel during the dev meeting can be found at http://koha.org/cgi-bin/logs.pl?recall=recall&saved_query=KohaCon09DevMtg Needless to say, there will be many blog posts by various people about KohaCon 2009 and the developers' meeting. The main tag used for Twitter, Flickr, and other social network posts is kohacon09. My thanks to the Koha users and developers who attended today in person, virtually, or in spirit, and to the KohaCon 2009 committee for organizing a great conference. I would also like to give a shout-out to the Holiday Inn Express for being great hosts. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Koha 3.2 Release Manager VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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KohaCon 2009 development meeting
by Galen Charlton 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Hi, A few logistical details for the developers meeting after KohaCon 2009. Location: The Board Room at the Holiday Inn Express North Plano (i.e., the conference hotel) Date: We have the room all day Saturday and Sunday, 4/18 & 4/19. Start time: 08:00 CDT (13:00 UTC) - note that that this is not a firm start time as much simply the earliest I'll be there to make sure that the room is unlocked. End time: Whenever the caffeine runs out. The hotel is being very flexible, although if we start running into the late evening, we should probably decamp to a private hotel room out of courtesy to the staff and guests in adjoining rooms. Agenda: There's no set agenda; in the best unconference tradition we'll decide on the agenda as we go along. That said, there are some topics and requests that I know of: * overview of the Koha codebase for new contributors * Git tutorial * 3.0 and 3.2 status and planning * discussing ideas for architectural and programming improvements for 3.2 and later * hackfest Communications: I will summarize the meetings in postings to the koha and koha-devel mailing lists. For blogs, Twitter, Flickr, etc., let's use the tag kohacon09. There's no videoconference equipment, of course, but we can try using Skype, Jabber, or #koha if someone who is unable attend in person would like to participate. Thanks to David Schuster and the rest of the KohaCon committee for doing a wonderful job of organizing the conference, and thanks to the Holiday Inn for giving us use of the room (and coffee and tea!) gratis. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime galen.charlton(a)liblime.com p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

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