ANN: Koha Community Website announces Plone Theming Contest
Koha Plone Website Contest In conjunction with the upcoming Koha 3.0 release, the Koha community is proud to announce a Plone Skinning/Theming contest for a new Koha community website. Koha is an open-source integrated library system application with users from around the world and the Koha community has chosen Plone as its CMS for the Koha community website. Contest Prizes Grand Prize for the selected Plone skin/theme is $2,500 USD and full design and implementation credit given on the Koha website. Honorable mentions will be announced via press release with contact information included (if so desired). Complete details are available here: http://koha.org/about-koha/news/nr1199901668.html Please pass along this announcement to any potentially interested folks! :) Cheers! Darci Hanning -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ANN%3A-Koha-Community-Website-announces-Plone-Theming-... Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
darcihanning <darci.hanning@gmail.com> wrote:
Koha Plone Website Contest
Oh - is www.koha.org going Plone then? Does this mean I can have FTP access at last? Or at least have my web login back, please? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
Hiya MJ Do you need another login or a login reset for the current site?? I can do that for you. Just let me know off list. Russel On 1/16/08, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
darcihanning <darci.hanning@gmail.com> wrote:
Koha Plone Website Contest
Oh - is www.koha.org going Plone then? Does this mean I can have FTP access at last? Or at least have my web login back, please?
Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
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darcihanning a écrit :
Koha Plone Website Contest
In conjunction with the upcoming Koha 3.0 release, the Koha community is proud to announce a Plone Skinning/Theming contest for a new Koha community website. Koha is an open-source integrated library system application with users from around the world and the Koha community has chosen Plone as its CMS for the Koha community website.
Contest Prizes
Grand Prize for the selected Plone skin/theme is $2,500 USD and full design and implementation credit given on the Koha website.
Honorable mentions will be announced via press release with contact information included (if so desired).
Complete details are available here: http://koha.org/about-koha/news/nr1199901668.html
Please pass along this announcement to any potentially interested folks! :)
Cheers! Darci Hanning
A quick question (2 in fact ;-) ) - who is Darci Hanning ? (have I missed someone from LibLime ?) - I didn't knew that the Koha community was an organization, neither an organization having money ;-) ps : i won't submit anything. Everybody here knows I don't have the needed skill ( ;-) ) -- Paul POULAIN BibLibre SARL Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : 04 91 31 45 19
Paul POULAIN-2 wrote:
darcihanning a écrit :
Koha Plone Website Contest
In conjunction with the upcoming Koha 3.0 release, the Koha community is proud to announce a Plone Skinning/Theming contest for a new Koha community website. Koha is an open-source integrated library system application with users from around the world and the Koha community has chosen Plone as its CMS for the Koha community website.
Contest Prizes
Grand Prize for the selected Plone skin/theme is $2,500 USD and full design and implementation credit given on the Koha website.
Honorable mentions will be announced via press release with contact information included (if so desired).
Complete details are available here: http://koha.org/about-koha/news/nr1199901668.html
Please pass along this announcement to any potentially interested folks! :)
Cheers! Darci Hanning
A quick question (2 in fact ;-) ) - who is Darci Hanning ? (have I missed someone from LibLime ?) - I didn't knew that the Koha community was an organization, neither an organization having money ;-)
ps : i won't submit anything. Everybody here knows I don't have the needed skill ( ;-) )
Hello Paul! I'm very active in the Plone community (as an integrator/customizer and documentation person) and LibLime is sponsoring the prize money :) I've been using Plone for just over two years and help lead the Plinkit project -- a Plone-based website hosting project for public libraries in the US. I'm also currently serving on the board of the Plone Foundation. I have been working with Joshua and Tina from LibLime to set up this contest and assist in any way that I can. I hope that helps and if I can answer any other questions, please just ask! :) Cheers, Darci -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ANN%3A-Koha-Community-Website-announces-Plone-Theming-... Sent from the Koha - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
- who is Darci Hanning ? (have I missed someone from LibLime ?) - I didn't knew that the Koha community was an organization, neither an organization having money ;-)
Oh, wow. I assumed this must have been discussed on IRC, that "the Koha community" was a misnaming of KohaLA and it was just me that was out of the loop on this own. Was I wrong on all three? LibLime are treating koha.org as their own site or what? Right, so did Kaitiaki even know about this? Bemused, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - www.software.coop - free and open source software for websites
Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
- who is Darci Hanning ? (have I missed someone from LibLime ?) - I didn't knew that the Koha community was an organization, neither an organization having money ;-)
Oh, wow. I assumed this must have been discussed on IRC, that "the Koha community" was a misnaming of KohaLA and it was just me that was out of the loop on this own. Was I wrong on all three? LibLime are treating koha.org as their own site or what? The primary goal of the site re-design is to provide a mechanism for community members to easily be able to add content via a standard open-source CMS. You yourself have expressed an interest in having FTP access to the koha.org site. We also want to support multi-lingual content on the koha.org site, so that members of language communities other than English can learn and contribute information, etc. The idea of using Plone has been discussed in
On 1/19/08, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote: past meetings, and it's generally been acknowledged that the current site isn't meeting the needs of the community and that a Plone site would. LibLime purchased the domain name from Katipo almost a year ago, and we feel a responsibility to do a good job as stewards of the site (just as Katipo did back in the day). Hence, we're happy to donate our time and resources to the site improvement. Since none of us have the Plone chops to do a good job, we decided to recruit Darci and the Plone community to help us out -- thus, the contest. When the plone submissions come in, we'll be looking for feedback from the whole community on what designs work best for us. I'm sorry that you feel left out of the process, and I agree it would have been best to air this topic on the list prior to the announcement, I'll take responsibility for not doing that.
Right, so did Kaitiaki even know about this? MJ, could you clarify ... who is the Koha Kaitiaki?
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Joshua Ferraro wrote:
Right, so did Kaitiaki even know about this? MJ, could you clarify ... who is the Koha Kaitiaki?
Well, Rachel Hamilton-Williams was elected the last time it was voted on. There hasn't been any election since then so she still is. Rachel, I'm sure she would agree, hasn't been active in the role for a while. So maybe now is a good time to think about electing a new Kaitiaki. Chris -- Chris Cormack chris.cormack@liblime.com VP Research and Development www.liblime.com LibLime +64 21 542 131
"Joshua Ferraro" <jmf@liblime.com> wrote:
[...] The idea of using Plone has been discussed in past meetings, and it's generally been acknowledged that the current site isn't meeting the needs of the community and that a Plone site would.
I'm not bothered either way about Plone. It has benefits, such as the version control and FTP possibility; and it has drawbacks, such as having to jump through hoops to avoid breaking our existing URLs and our difficulty in supporting python and particularly Zope as well as perl and Apache. The main problem that needs addressing is the site management. Yes, FTP access would be good, but I think I've asked three times for my HTTP login to be re-enabled. At least once I've dropped the request because I didn't understand the message I got in reply. Documenting kea a bit better would be enough, but I understand if LibLime don't want to spend effort on Katipo's (non-free-software?) CMS. (Really I do understand, no sarcasm - software.coop is currently supporting someone else's CMS for one customer and it's utterly no fun and I think I don't want to be doing that long-term.) [...]
Right, so did Kaitiaki even know about this? MJ, could you clarify ... who is the Koha Kaitiaki?
I think it's still Rachel at Katipo. I think I remember some talk in a meeting of one of the other long-timers (Owen? Chris? Irma?) stepping in, but I don't think it actually happened yet. Maybe one of the KohaLA-ers should be Kaitiaki by default now. I don't know, but I think we're getting releases under control just as the main project is drifting a bit. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
MJ, could you clarify ... who is the Koha Kaitiaki?
I think it's still Rachel at Katipo. I think I remember some talk in a meeting of one of the other long-timers (Owen? Chris? Irma?) stepping in, but I don't think it actually happened yet.
I think that before we start talking about a new Kaitiaki it would be good to come to an agreement about what the position entails. Here's the text on the web site (http://www.koha.org/about-koha/faq.html#faq19): Who is this Kaitiaki person? Kaitiaki is the Maori word for Guardian. When the Koha user and developer community realized some sort of combination Benevolent Dictator/Juggler might be a good idea, they chose a name that would reflect what they felt his/her role would be. The Kaitiaki is currently elected from among the membership of the developers' list - this includes the Katipo staff as well as representatives of several of the libraries and the far flung contributors of code, documentation, and kibitzing. This person is also responsible, with the advice and consent of the community, for trying to decide target dates for things like releases and features scheduling... and trying to help bring some order from the chaos ;). He also helps coordinate efforts and agendas, particularly through the mechanism of the every-few-weeks IRC meetings. Traditionally, the Kaitiaki also handles things like release announcements to sites like OSS4lib. Right now, responsibilities for things like release dates and features scheduling is the responsibility of the Release Managers. IRC meetings have been release-oriented, so RMs have been in charge of their own meetings. I could see the Kaitiaki acting as a coordinator among RMs, if that was necessary, although there has been so little action on 2.x that this doesn't seem to have been necessary. I like the idea of the Kaitiaki being responsible for announcements and things like that, so that Koha can have a spokesperson independent from any branch or company. The catch is that the Kaitiaki has to have time and inclination to devote to the job. The Kaitiaki has to take the initiative of getting the word out on Koha when the opportunity arises. If the Kaitiaki is to help manage the RMs and come to agreements on release dates, features, etc, then he or she needs to be able to understand the technical details of the product as well as the business needs of all the parties involved. How do others see the role of the Kaitiaki? Let's hammer out a job description. -- Owen P.S. I wouldn't want the job, it sounds like too much work! ;) -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
[...] the Kaitiaki acting as a coordinator among RMs, if that was necessary, although there has been so little action on 2.x that this doesn't seem to have been necessary. [...]
This may have been a bug that a Kaitiaki election might have corrected.
How do others see the role of the Kaitiaki? Let's hammer out a job description.
I see it as broadly what it was, although most of the tasks can (should?) be delegated to the RMs and other developers. Also: is anyone on -devel interesting in standing for election under the current description or is it too much work, like Owen wrote? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
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Chris Cormack -
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MJ Ray -
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Paul POULAIN -
Russel Garlick