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Updates to www.koha.org
by Russel Garlick 21 May '05

21 May '05

Hi everyone, Notification of some updates to http://www.koha.org HOMEPAGE http://www.koha.org/ I have quickly inserted some links to other Koha websites. I will make these more prominent soon, but at least they are there for the meantime. And before anyone asks, I like to separate links to other websites from the main navigation for a website so that it is clear when you are going to a page off site. So this is why I haven't added these links to the left hand side navigation. FAQ PAGE http://www.koha.org/faq/ This has been updated to look more like an FAQ page and some of the more technical FAQ's have been removed and references made to the FAQ on the Wiki. Some of these were way out of date, so I have just tried to keep the more general, non version specific ones here. INSTALLATION AND SUPPORT http://www.koha.org/installation/ Removed links to outdated manuals and included some information for installing on other platforms. CONTACT US http://www.koha.org/about/contact-us.html Updated with new personnel If you have any contributions or edits please read the Contributing To This Website page http://www.koha.org/about/website.html and then forward them to kohaweb(a)support.katipo.co.nz Have a good weekend, Cheers -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph 934 1285 Mob 027 537 1377 Web www.katipo.co.nz

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Images in Koha documents
by Stephen Hedges 20 May '05

20 May '05

A couple of questions came up (briefly) in yesterday's IRC meeting about how to insert images into kohadocs, so I thought I'd explain how I've been handling them. First of all, I do all the docs in DocBook xml, almost always as an article. I use XMLMind (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/) to make the process easier. Then I convert the finished xml source to html and pdf, and store all three versions on kohadocs.org. To get XMLMind to include images in the html files it creates (without paying for the expensive full version of XMLMind), the images have to be in gif format. Getting images into pdf files has been a problem, since I have yet to find a DocBookXML->pdf converter that can handle them. So for Nick's "Koha Architectural Study," for example, I used Scribus to manually create a high-quality pdf file (very time-consuming) and converted all the images to tif format. I use gimp to do all these conversions, and would use svg format instead of tif for the pdf files, except the gimp can't handle that kind of conversion. So that's how I've been doing it. I _welcome_ suggestions for better ways to handle images, particularly for the pdf files. Stephen -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Koha.org Website Updating
by Russel Garlick 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hi everyone, If you have updates for the site, whether they be pages of content or sites that you would like us to link to please fire them through to kohaweb(a)support.katipo.co.nz I have put up some notes about editing the website on the site itself http://www.koha.org/about/website.html Great to see so many people at the meeting today. Cheers -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph +64 4 934 1285 Fax +64 4 934 1286 Mob +64 27 537 1377 Web http://www.katipo.co.nz

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New document on kohadocs
by Stephen Hedges 19 May '05

19 May '05

New on http://www.kohadocs.org -- "A Koha Diary: Implementing Koha at the Nelsonville Public Library" by Stephen Hedges. You can find it in the "General" section. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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Search ideas - finally in print
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi all, I've finally tried to get the search ideas from my head, out onto something like a mockup of a page. http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/koha2-4 The problem it seeks to solve on the search results page is where someone gets too many results to usefully look through, and wants to reduce them. On the details page, it's seeking to help people broaden out their search again, if this isn't quite what they wanted, or if they want to find more titles similar to this one. I was also wanting to be more "explicit" about the author search as well. Look forward to your thoughts Cheers Rachel -- ----------------------------- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager Katipo Communications Ltd Phone: +64-4-934 1285 Mobile: 021 389 128 E-mail: rachel(a)katipo.co.nz Web: www.katipo.co.nz

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newbie questions
by Gavin McCullagh 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi, I'm just looking at Koha potentially for a library here in our school. Congratulations to all involved and thanks for releasing it under the GPL. I have installed it and am tinkering about. It's on a 400MHz P2 w 128MB RAM running Debian GNU/Linux (sarge) in a MySQL database and I installed the sample data from sampledata-1.2.gz. The sampledata didn't insert entirely perfectly but it seems reasonable for testing. I was wondering about a few things. 1. The major book data seems to be in one table, including authors. I would instinctively have separated the authors into a separate table. Is this just a decision to favour simplicity over normalisation or am I missing something? 2. There are no indexes on the biblio table. Is this deliberate, did I lose something in installation or are we expected to add our own afterward? 3. The doc recommends not using mod_perl. Is this just because it's not tested or is there a more specific reason? I would imagine adding 4. It seems rather slow. Each search request is taking 3-5 seconds. The machine is running my desktop apps but isn't terribly stressed. I've tried using mod_perl and adding indexes but I get the impression that the time is mainly being spent within the perl code itself. Is this normal performance or have i done something wrong? Many thanks again for providing this system under the GPL. Hopefully it will save us a lot of time and effort. Gavin

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Meeting Agenda
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 19 May '05

19 May '05

This is a loose agenda - if you'd like to turn up early for pre meeting chat and catchup then you're welcome to. If you'd like something in particular on the agenda please let me know 1/. Welcome & Introductions 2/. Kaitiaki project update 3/. 2.2 Release Manager Report/update 4/. 2.4 Release Manager appointment 5/. Document Co-Ordinator Update 6/. Volunteers needed 7/. How to get new features into Koha 8/. Internationalisation (MJR are you talking to this?) 9/. General Business Cheers Rachel -- ----------------------------- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager Katipo Communications Ltd Phone: +64-4-934 1285 Mobile: 021 389 128 E-mail: rachel(a)katipo.co.nz Web: www.katipo.co.nz

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Re: [Koha] primera vez
by Christian Calle 19 May '05

19 May '05

Saludos Paco, me alegra bastante enterarme de los avancesque tienes. Bienvenido ..!! Quiero pedir disculpas a la comunidad, también envié enidioma español. Me encantan las observaciones, te comento que estamos enbuenas relaciones con Argentina, ellos hicieron un buen trabajo en eldesarrollo del modulo de circulación, el OPAC y otros módulos, si quieresvisitarlo puedes hacer link a http://biblio.fisica.unlp.edu.ar Nosotros estamos usando el IsisMarc Para la catalogación esCoautor de desarrollo Emiliano Marmonti de Argentina de la UNLP. Es bueno coordinar los avances sobre el sistema para elhispano parlante. Abrazos, hasta pronto ;) GreetingsPaco, is happy me enough to inform me of the advances that you have. Welcome..!! I want toask excuses to the community, also I sent in Spanish language. They I lovethe observations, you comment that are in good relations with Argentina, they did a good work inthe development of the I modulate of circulation, the OPAC and other modules,if you want to visit it can do link to http://biblio.fisica.unlp.edu.ar We areusing the IsisMarc for the cataloguing is a Coauthor of development EmilianoMarmonti of Argentinaof the UNLP. It is goodto coordinate the advances on the system for the Hispanic loudspeaker. Hugs toquick;) On Wed, 18 May 2005 13:55:13 -0300, Andrés Tarallo wrote > Paco: > > Your original mail is in spanish, but since this mailing list is > mostly in english i´ll answer you in english, for the benefit of all > the Koha community. > > Paco Alcaide wrote: > > >Saludos desde la cálida Honduras, > > > >La Fundación RIECKEN implementa bibliotecas comunitarias en comunidades > >rurales en Honduras. Hasta la fecha tenemos 15 bibliotecas funcionando y a > >finales de año contaremos con otras 20. Nuestra preocupación no sólo es > >contar con un sistema gestor de bibliotecas sino también que el mismo cuente > >con un fuerte módulo de adquisiciones. Para tal fin hemos visualizado varias > >alternativas y entre ellas y la que más me parece viable es KOHA en su > >versión en castellano. Sin embargo tengo varias dudas las cuales me gustaría > >solventar. > > > > > We have a production system based o koha, but we're not using the > catalog system. We have a very formal procurament system, and koha > might need some work for supporting this. > > >1. La base de datos de KOHA están en formato MARC. ¿Se pueden añadir otros > >campos no contemplados en dicho formato?.Por ejemplo, pensando en el > >inventario de bodega de la colección tenemos un campo de distribución del > >material, origen de la adquisición... entre otros. > > > > > Koha can work in "Marc Mode" and as a non MARC system. If you don't > use MARC and you don't want to migrate your catalog to MARC you can > work in non-MARC mode. More flexibility is achieved with the MARC mode. > > >2. Sé que KOHA está hecho para Linux pero, ¿existe una versión de KOHA en > >castellano para Windows? > > > > > Koha is written in PERL, if you have a web server under windows that > supports CGIs and a running PERL you can execute Koha under windows. > As far as I know there's people running koha under windows with > apache, but naver tried to set this up. > > >En Honduras y creo que en Centroamérica ningún centro se ha planteado > >implementar este tipo de software. Nosotros estamos al inicio de implementar > >uno y deseamos conocer más a fondo las bondades de este universo de KOHA. > > > > > > > You might want to make a test instalation, and evaluate the benefits > of it. > > Andres > > > > > > >Paco Alcaide Canata > >Responsable temporal de Colecciones > >221.4509 / 236.8817 > >paco(a)riecken.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)

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Re: [Koha] Koha Internationalisation
by Andrés Tarallo 18 May '05

18 May '05

Garikoitz Araolaza wrote: > > Being a newcomer to Koha, I'm seeing many translation/localization > requests in this list (specially spanish, in which I'm interested > too). So, among all the spanish Koha users we could maybe have enough > taskforce to maintain an spanish version updated. That's will be great. There is a translation, that I've found credited to me. I haven't done anything, I Think that it was something done here (ORT Uruguay) by Ernesto Silva, or by someone in Argentina. If someone can work in the .po files we could have a nice translation. It would be intersting to enhace the templates. > As far as I've read in the code, Koha's localisation is based on > copy-paste of HTML templates and translation of strings contained in > them. What to do with Koha updates is not clear, but it seems that the > solution would be performing some diffs between files and editing the > old localized code so that it looks like the new english one. You're right, there's also some messages in the database. > When trying to run Koha in a bilingual environment, I understand that > two instances of Koha should be run, and give access from different > URLs to the different versions. Never tried this. Solving this will require some changes. > > So, is there any roadmap for a new I18N/L10N schema that would > simplify the Localisation system, so that english becomes Just Another > Language? gettext/po files-like systems is the most used solution, > but I don't know what's the idea of the benevolent dictators of this > great software. ;-) BTW, I could help in the I18N process. As far as I know there no such process, some is needed to take care of it. Some latin americans have done some work, but not in an organized maner. Maybe you can organize this. Andres

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koha 2.2.2b on fedora 3----internal server error on apache???
by Shebina K 18 May '05

18 May '05

hi......... i installed koha on fedora 3 when i take the interface on browser i got internal server error message on browser..this is the case when selinux is in enabled state (setenforce 1) i got the below error message from the log file :- > [Tue May 17 16:26:38 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: > /usr/sbin/suexec) > [Tue May 17 16:26:38 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for > digest authentication ... > [Tue May 17 16:26:38 2005] [notice] Digest: done > [Tue May 17 16:26:38 2005] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK > [Tue May 17 16:26:38 2005] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable > [Tue May 17 16:26:39 2005] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session > mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads. > [Tue May 17 16:26:39 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) configured > -- resuming normal operations > [Tue May 17 16:27:15 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > (13)Permission denied: httpd: could not open error log file > /usr/local/koha/log/koha-error_log. > Unable to open logs > [Tue May 17 16:27:28 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: > /usr/sbin/suexec) > [Tue May 17 16:27:29 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for > digest authentication ... > [Tue May 17 16:27:29 2005] [notice] Digest: done > [Tue May 17 16:27:29 2005] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK > [Tue May 17 16:27:29 2005] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable > [Tue May 17 16:52:31 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] DBI > connect('Koha:localhost','kohaadmin',...) failed: Can't connect to > local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) at > /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 409 > [Tue May 17 16:52:31 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] DBI > connect('Koha:localhost','kohaadmin',...) failed: Can't connect to > local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) at > /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 409 > [Tue May 17 16:52:31 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] Can't call > method "selectrow_array" on an undefined value at > /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 364. > [Tue May 17 16:52:31 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] Premature end > of script headers: mainpage.pl > [Tue May 17 16:52:34 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] DBI > connect('Koha:localhost','kohaadmin',...) failed: Can't connect to > local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) at > /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 409 > [Tue May 17 16:52:34 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] DBI > connect('Koha:localhost','kohaadmin',...) failed: Can't connect to > local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) at > /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 409 > [Tue May 17 16:53:50 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] Can't call > method "prepare" on an undefined value at > /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac-main.pl line 16. > [Tue May 17 16:53:51 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.9] Premature end > of script headers: opac-main.pl > > when i issue the command " setenforce 0 " i can work on koha properly. why it is happened so... help me please... thank you shebina

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