Hi all,
The email below was posted on the Koha developers [koha-devel] e-list but
might be of interest to some of you. It gives a wider view of the options
of Koha's development.
As Galen explains, "If Koha were to apply, we would be expected to provide
the following:
- a list of project ideas that would be beneficial to Koha and
educational for the students
- mentors willing to devote a fair amount of time between June and
September guiding students through their projects
- an "organization admin" or two to help the mentors and students
How could Koha be enhanced?
Might you have project ideas we could pass on to the developers?
With best regards,
Irma Birchall
www.calyx.net.au
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Galen Charlton <gmc(a)esilibrary.com>
Date: 13 February 2013 10:38
Subject: [Koha-devel] GSoC?
To: "koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org" <
koha-devel(a)lists.koha-community.org>
Hi,
Following up on some discussion on #koha, I'd like to raise the
question of whether we want to consider putting in an application for
the Google Summer of Code [1] this year.
What's GSoC? Very briefly, it's effectively an internship program
where Google will pay college and university students to work on F/OSS
projects. One of the overall goals is to help educate students, both
in the technical matters of contributing software to a real project
and the social matters of interacting productively with an open source
community. Ideally, a GSoC student would end their experience ready
and willing to continue to participate in F/OSS projects.
Secondarily, we may get some cool and useful code to add to Koha.
If Koha were to apply, we would be expected to provide the following:
- a list of project ideas that would be beneficial to Koha and
educational for the students
- mentors willing to devote a fair amount of time between June and
September guiding students through their projects
- an "organization admin" or two to help the mentors and students
Being a mentor is a serious commitment. The ideal mentor would be an
active developer, familiar with the codebase and expert in at least
some of it, willing to teach, willing to help make sure that student
participates openly in the community, and able to devote a fair amount
of time to work with his or her student during the summer.
I encourage folks to read the GSoC document carefully, then answer the
following questions:
- Is GSoC something we want to participate in?
- If so, are there enough folks willing and able to act as mentors?
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
Regards,
Galen
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Hi all,
The Z39.50 portal access is working again.
With best regards,
Irma
www.calyx.net.au
On 25 January 2013 17:34, Irma Birchall <irma(a)calyx.net.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This might or might not apply to you...
>
> If one of your Z39.50 client portals is Macquarie University, please read
> the email below explaining the current outage.
>
> I will let you know when access is restored and the magic of copy
> cataloguing is available again from this library.
>
> With best regards,
> Irma
> http://www.calyx.net.au
>
> "Hi Irma, I have discovered that due to a change in firewall rules on our
> server that the incoming z39.50 port has been firewalled to incoming
> traffic. I have reported this to IT but we might have to do some
> negotiations to get this setting changed. I will let you know a status
> when I have one. Apologies for this problem. Regards, Fiona Burton Associate
> University Librarian, Resources, Library Resources, Library, MACQUARIE
> UNIVERSITY NSW 2109, Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 7556, Fax: +61 (0)2 9850 7568,
> fiona.burton(a)mq.edu.au<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=fiona.burton@mq.edu.au>
> , www.mq.edu.au/library - www.researchonline.mq.edu.au - CRICOS Provider
> No 00002J."
>
