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[Bug 62] checkvalidisbn() routine is broken
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62 tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 71] budget start date is hardcoded in bookfunds() in Acquistions.pm
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71 tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca 2002-09-04 09:05 ------- Changed sub bookfund so that it shows budgest whose start and end dates contain today's date. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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Re: Koha
by Pat Eyler 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, rob caSSon wrote: > pat, > > one other thing....on the linuxtoday site, there was a reply to my post > suggesting the use of a multivalue database as the basis for a library > catalog....have you any experience with these? Yeah, they're talking about PICK or derivatives. Many of the available ILS are written in some form of PICK, including Dynix (where I worked ~10 years ago). > > don't think it would be sensible/feasible to redo koha to use this kind of > technology, but an interesting idea nonetheless....i've spent some time > looking at documentation/examples, and looks conceptually similar to marc > right out of the box.... It is. PICK was developed to support the US Army MILPERCEN folks. The official army cataloging tool is very MARC-like, so I'm sure that's why many commercial vendors use it. You're right though. Koha is really too far along to try and rewrite using a new flavor of DBMS, especially one as far removed from RDMS which we all know fairly well. > > an opensource (LGPL'd) product is available here, and is still under > development (isn't everything ;): > > http://www.maverick-dbms.org/ Wow ... that's almost as twisted as GNU Cobol. ;) > > anyway, just thought i'd pass on some interesting info, thanks, I'll CC the koha-devel list on this reply. -pate > rob > Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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Z39.50 server test
by Tonnesen Steve 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

I just found out that the Ministry of Education here is blocking incoming connections on port 210, so my Z39.50 server test couldn't be reached by people outside of the British Columbia public schools. :) If you tried to test it and it failed, please try again with the following port: IP: 142.28.224.18 PORT: 9999 DB: TEST Steve.

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z3950 server for Koha
by Tonnesen Steve 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

I think I have a minimally functional Z39.50 server for Koha running at: 142.28.224.18 port 210 database TEST You can do searches on author or title... at least you can using Koha's z39.50 client. I'd appreciate any tests people can do from other z39.50 clients. Steve.

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about IRC
by paul POULAIN 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hi, I'm pleased to read you every day, and chat during irc, but... it would be nice to have some speaking experiment too. Did anyone know/use a net-meeting system that works under linux ? If possible, it would be nice to have a irc by voice at least once. -- Paul

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Nelsonville RFPs
by Pat Eyler 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hello, I recently recieved a question about the RFP process and who might be responding to it/them. I'd like to make my answer a bit more public in hopes that it might stir some conversation. I hope that there will be several people, groups, and/or companies submitting responses though. Let me explain why: If there are more developers brought into the project, we will have a bigger pool of talent to work with for all of the Koha development. Additional people should also bring extra insight to development. Some organizations require multiple respondents to an RFP. Having more than one response helps show that the Koha development community is more vibrant --- and that it would survive the disappearance of a single development group (e.g., if Katipo were to suddenly disappear right now, it would be a mojor blow to Koha). It will help make releaseing RFPs and looking into Koha more attractive to other libraries if they know that there is a compete market. I'd also hope that the responses to the RFP (perhaps expunged of financial information) could be discussed in the open. I think that the value gained by working together on planning these new features will be worth the effort. This will require a major departure from the traditional RFP/response pattern, but doing RFPs for OSS projects is already pretty radical. thanks, -pate

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Suggestions Please
by Roger Buck 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

At last, I should have some spare (hah!) time coming up and looking for something manageable and productive to work on. Is there still a need for HTML Code upgrade to CSS and HTML 4 compliancy? If so, then where is best place to start? If not, then any suggestions for anything along similar lines? R.

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Re: MARC standards and North America
by Pat Eyler 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Steven, Thanks for passing this along. I'm cc:ing the devel list so that it hits a wider audience. -pate On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 baljkas(a)mb.sympatico.ca wrote: > Friday, August 30, 2002 23:56 CDT > > Hey Koha folks, > > Just finished skimming through the transcript of the IRC mtg. and had one > minor correction to offer: > > MARC21 is the emergent *North American* standard and represents the > collaboration of LC and the NLC (National Library of Canada) in creating > the unified MARC21 out of differing practices in USMARC and CANMARC. This > is ongoing, of course (still hammering out things, as attested in AUTOCAT > listserv discussion on differing application of genre terms despite the > 'decision' to adopt the Canadian codes, still resisted in practice by > former USMARCers). > > If you want to check on this, visit either the LC or NLC site for info the > history of MARC21 and you'll see that Paul was a little off in saying that > MARC21 was US only. > > Cheers, > Steven F. Baljkas > lib. tech. lurker in Winnipeg, MB, Canada > <baljkas(a)mb.sympatico.ca> > >

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Response to the meeting
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hi, Just reading back on Koha meeting logs - sorry I couldn't make it today, I picked this out of the logs.... <paul> one un-direct question : where are you katipo with your "text images" on the website ? are they ready to be included in koha himself . We have done text links for the Koha website (Koha.org) We haven't done anything recently on the main menu includes for Koha - either intranet or OPAC, I was half waiting for the templating stuff to be done. What is needed? Some blank images you can put your own words on? Or to change the code so that the text is just text, and then the words can be changed more easily without a graphics programme? Cheers R _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org

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