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Minor item & Manual News
by Nicholas Rosasco 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

I've taken the (hopefully minor :) ) liberty of tidying up the wiki... mainly just shuffling on the main page, etc around for a little more rationality. Nothing has been unlinked.... I promise!, just moved. I just wanted a little order from the chaos before we start on the 1.3/1.4 series. The manual is now blessed with Rosa's fabulous librarian section... (thankyouthankyouthankyou Rosa, and all the other contributors on this list -- I think I can now safely say we're at a Full Manual stage! I intend to add more, of course, but this is much much more complete). In obedience to my usual rule of thumb, I have someone besides me and Rosa (who we also owe a huge thankyou for her earlier proofreading efforts) proofing the librarian's section, more pro forma than anything else as Rosa's text is pretty slick as it is. Our fearless proofer is a new contributor, Brig McCoy, from the Linda Hall Library of Science in Missouri, who some of you may have seen on the user-list. The (pre Librarian section) version has been translated into French, and the (pre proof) current version is in our fabulous Franco-phone team's hands. Check out: http://koha.org/manual/book_2_librarian.html Nick

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We made it to lwn.net
by Pat Eyler 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

wow ... not front page, but coverage nonetheless. We're in the development section of this week's edition of Linux Weekly News. -pate

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[Bug 51] intranet-html/includes/menus.inc
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51 chris(a)katipo.co.nz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From chris(a)katipo.co.nz 2002-07-17 08:49 ------- Removed from cvs, so wont be in the next tarball ------- 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: Mexican Library Story
by Pat Eyler 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Sharon Primm-Dayot wrote: > Hello Pat. > > Thank you so much for your interest in the library that is being > created in El Roble. I am a friend and partner with Marlene (whom you > read about in the paper)and I am so very encouraged by the response that > we've had from the PI's story. It's heartwarming to know that so many > people want to help with such a wonderful and worthwhile project. > I'm glad to hear you've received such a positive response. It seems that people are very interested in doing good things, they just need a bit of motivation (like seeing an article about a neat project). > Koha also sounds like a wonderful and needed project. And it certainly > sounds like something we would love to talk to you about! Anything that > can help to provide efficient and quality library service for the people > of rural Mexico causes us to pay attention. I'd love to talk with you about it. Either by email, or in person. I'm currently looking for a new consulting contract, so I have some time available. I've included a bit of additional information below, and am Cc:ing this email to our development mailing list. Hopefully we can generate some additional discussion. > > I briefly checked out the Web sites that you referred to us. Thank > you! Am I understanding correctly that your service will help us > provide an on-line library system that would fit our library > specifically? Any further information that you can share with us would > be greatly appreciated. I think Koha would make an excellent system for a rural Mexican library. It isn't ready for playing that role yet though. The biggest things that need to be done are: 1) translation of the documentation into Spanish. We currently have one volunteer to work on this (a librarian from Chile), unfortunately he hasn't been heard from since his initial offer. There are two kinds of documentation that require translation; librarian oriented and support/IT oriented. These will require slightly different skills of the translators. I'm hoping to work with the Callimachus Group, <http://www.callimachus.org>, to write a grant request to hire a couple of translators to perform this work for us. 2) a templated version of the OPAC (Patron) and CIRC (Librarian) systems needs to be completed. We hope to have this work done within the month. Another group is already working with pre-release versions to do a translation into French. (They are actually working with some of our french developers, so this is quite a boon for us.) I'm a volunteer (as are most of the people working on the Koha project), but would be happy to help make Koha work for your needs. I think this can be done without a great deal of effort. A gentleman from Nigeria is currently working to install Koha for his local library and things are proceeding nicely, so there seems to be some momentum building. > > I wish you success with your project! And I hope that there can be > collaboration between our two worthwhile endeveours in the future. > Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions. Thank you, I hope that El Roble's library becomes a reality in the near future. I think that there is a lot of room for us to help you meet that goal, and that we will benefit from the work that's done. Thanks, -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager the Koha project > > Sincerely, > Sharon Primm-Dayot > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Sharon Primm-Dayot > EOP Bridge Academic Administrator > Instructor: Instructional Center & Upward Bound > Trainer: TRIO Training > > University of Washington > Box 355650 - 1307 NE 40th > Seattle, WA 98105 > Office:(206) 543-4240 > Fax:(206) 616-9092 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > > > > > > >

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copy of the koha site ready to go
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

Hi Paul, a complete copy of the english koha site is ready for you to go http://fr-koha-edit.katipo.co.nz/kaka/ Use your same username and password as for the english site. If you can't remember them let me know what a better password would be :-) If you've got some translaters going to do the work and they need passwords just send me their e-mail addresses and I'll get them set up. Cheers Rachel _____________________________________________________________ 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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[RE] Has anybody tested 1.2.2RC3?
by Ville Huhtala 14 Jul '02

14 Jul '02

installer error: Please enter the port for your Intranet/Librarian interface. Enter intranet port [8080]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at installer.pl line 430, <STDIN> line 13 (#1) (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables. To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation you used the undefined value in. Note, however, that perl optimizes your program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily appear literally in your program. For example, "that $foo" is usually optimized into "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer to the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your program. --- Ville Huhtala

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Re: What about the mail Archives ?
by Pat Eyler 13 Jul '02

13 Jul '02

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Olugbenga Adara wrote: > Hello Pate, > > Thanks for the nice work you did at koha.org website. > But i could not find a link to download the mailing > list archives again. Please can you give me a URL > where i can get the archives? Access to the Internet > is expensive here so the archives saves me some money > rather than browse yahoo online. Thanks for the compliment, but I did very little work (a bit of writing and some editing.) You can get to the archives at: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/ for the general list, and at: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/9972/0/ for the koha-devel lists > > Also how do i get the koha bug fixes? The list just > mentions cvs but i dont know much about this. Also > maybe the patches may be posted to sourceforge or do > we upgrade with the latest release ? > cvs is the best way to get bug fixes. barring that, you can download the new tarballs. It might make sense for us to start shipping patches as well (to help people like you.) > I wish to contribute on documentation for koha. i had > a mail from the doc editor some few days back which i > replied but i've heard nothing yet. > You should hear from Nicholas shortly .... > Some good news. I have successfully installed koha > 1.2.1 at the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library of the > Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. It is > presently being evaluated by the library staff. They > hope to have 300,000 items in Koha when it finally > goes live. Though best way of getting this into koha > is my current problem. > There are some bulk transfer scripts, I'm not sure how much they will do for you, but it may be worth checking through the archive. > Once again, thanks for the great work on koha On behalf of *many* other people, you're quite welcome. -pate > > ===== > Olugbenga Adara MCP > Consultant, 3om Services, > 75, Lebanon Street, Dugbe, > Ibadan, Nigeria. > Tel: 234-2-2412090 > Mobile: 234-803-3220288 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes > http://autos.yahoo.com >

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1.2.3RC4
by Tonnesen Steve 12 Jul '02

12 Jul '02

1.2.3RC4 fixes the problems caused by Koha.pm and Database.pm depending on each other in 1.2.3RC2. Steve.

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RE: [Koha] Installation (fwd)
by Pat Eyler 12 Jul '02

12 Jul '02

There are also some people (in .au?) that ware working on Koha on Win32. If you guys would like to compare notes on the koha-devel list, we'd be glad to have you. thanks, -pate ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:10:44 +1200 From: Andrew Hooper <telomere(a)iconz.co.nz> To: 'micheas' <micheas(a)micheas.dyns.net>, 'Martin Kinyua' <MKinyua(a)amrefhq.org> Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: RE: [Koha] Installation Hi Micheas (and all) I have been working on a port of Koha onto NT/200/XP for a while now Progress was delayed while I waited for Koha 1.2 to be released and for development to generally stabilize. I have been considering starting work on the project again now and have even been able to allocate a spare machine for the task. I will send, as soon as I'm able, an interim report on my experiences to-date. I have made some quite good progress. With: Perl on NT IIS as the web-server My-SQL as the database I have also been tinkering with converting the entire Perl code-base into ASP and converting the SQL-DDL etc over to SQL-Server - progress is a little slower in this area. The versions of Perl and Mysql are so good, that I've been less inclined to tackle this area right now. (<Win/Advocacy>) I happen to work for Microsoft, but this is entirely a private project connected with a 5k+ volume Theological Library with my church. I'm just much more comfortable with the Win32 platform - I did try on RedHat but found the whole platform (esp Apache etc) so different that I was wasting a lot of Library/Koha time on purely platform issues...) Please do write with any experience you've already had - I'd be been to compare notes and start a thread on this topic. All the best Andrew Hooper -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin(a)lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of micheas Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2002 5:40 p.m. To: Martin Kinyua Cc: 'koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz' Subject: Re: [Koha] Installation On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 23:37, Martin Kinyua wrote: > Has anyone out there installed KOHA onto windows 98/2000 etc ? Please let me > know. > Not that I've heard of. > Where can I get the installation instructions > I would install: A web server. (http://www.apache.org is what I would go with. You will find other users more able to help you. MySQL http://www.mysql.com CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) http://www.cpan.org ) Perl http://www.perl.org A C compiler. (Visual C++ is probably your best bet. but you might be able to get gcc and cygwin to work.) YAZ http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ (This a library that you must compile yourself according to the website it has only been tested on windows with Visual C++ ) From CPAN you will need to install: Date::Manip DBI Set::Scalar DBD::mysql # or whatever database system you use CDK # Optional AuthenDBI # if you want to use Database based # authentication Net::Z3950 # needed for remote MARC record lookup. > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha <advocacy> If you don't have a compelling need to use Windows. Setting up a Debian or FreeBSD box would be _MUCH_ easier. The best help you will get is probably from using Debian. (most of the Developers use it and I use it on my workstation. Once set up you can administer the Debian box from any web browser if you install webmin. If *NIX is uncomfortable to you you can probably find a local Linux Users Group that would be very happy to help you.) On the other hand FreeBSD i Known for it's Stability. 6 of the top ten uptimes listed by netcraft http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html are FreeBSD Servers (It takes an uptime of almost three years to make the top ten.) </advocacy> If you decide to try and get Koha running on a Win32 server please let us know your experience. Good Luck, Micheas _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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RE: [Koha] Questions about using Koha in our primary school
by Nicholas Rosasco 12 Jul '02

12 Jul '02

I know I'm not answering all your questions/concerns, but some of them fall within my purview (2 dollar word, there :) ) since they touch on the manual. > The main question is one you must receive frequently. Does > platform independence really include Windows? The computer has > been purchased and I assume it > came with Win XP (I haven't seen it yet). I don't think I could > convince them to use Linux, even if I had a clue about it myself. We've had people do it. There are versions, if nothing else, of all the core tools available for windows (apache, etc). I'll let someone else cover that in more detail.... > In any case, I want to test out and > demonstrate Koha using my laptop which runs Win ME. I see from > the installation notes that it has been installed on NT and Win > 2000 with considerable difficulty. > Can you tell me how difficult? I have no knowledge of perl or > Apache. Does that make it pointless trying without years of study? Perl knowledge isn't a requirement... we have a pretty good (this is coming from the documentation manager) manual to help you :). A lack-of-fear of Apache (ie, a willingness to ask if you are stuck) does help. Windows setups have been done, I think. > The next question is about languages. The OPAC at our school > would be presented in at least 5 European languages, including > Greek. The school has 5 language > sections, plus Irish, but all other languages in the European > Union would be represented in the book collection. So would a > multilingual OPAC be difficult to > produce? I'm a bit confused. The software cares not for the data (ie, titles, etc). :) If you mean the labels/text on screen (ie MAIN, etc) the hope is that the templating system we have underway (currently in between development and beta testing -- ver. 1.3) will permit the user to select from the available languages. Could you elaborate on this? > There would possibly be some benefit to Koha from this, and > perhaps this could be our contribution to the cause: translations > of key documents into all these > languages. You're making me drool :). I'm responsible for coordinating the translation of our supporting materials. > Next question. The library will be staffed by volunteer parents > with less computer knowledge than even me. There won't be a > trained librarian for at least 3 years. > Would this present a problem? Is the system sufficiently simple > and robust that we can't get into much trouble? We currently have a manual for operators (ie, library staff) underway. It is being written by a librarian, not a computer geek :). My hope is to have in integrated into the master manual (on www.koha.org) within approximately a week or so (fingers crossed there). > Next question. As the collection will be started with donated > books, we need to catalog them. There is a shareware proggy that > purports to take an ISBN and then > search the internet for the book, then places the biblio dat in a > database. It's called Readerware. It says it even gets the > cover art and includes that. I think that > having cover art would be really nifty for a primary school > library. So could the OPAC show that. Is this simply a question > of having an image in a field of a MySQL > database. And is that possible? We've got a similar feature in re ISBNs, also in development (target of Septemberish). I'll let another developer or a librarian answer in more detail. Cover art, no, we don't have an equivalent. > I'll stop there. If you can give me good news I'll start > downloading. I've got a couple of months to get it going as the > school year starts in September in Europe. As if > things weren't weird enough. > I'm cc'ing the developers (I'm just the manual geek), so they can can give you their take on these questions. Nick Rosasco nrosasco(a)acm.org

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