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Koha-oz community dinner : Sydney <> aliaonline15 conference week
by Irma Birchall 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hi All, On either Monday 2/2 or Tuesday 3/2, a small group of Koha users will meet to share a meal together and swap Koha experiences. Might you be interested in joining us? Not far from the Information Online conference <http://information-online.alia.org.au> venue, the Graffiti Ristorante <http://www.thearthousehotel.com.au/menus/graffiti-menu/> is a good meetup place and has a reasonably priced menu. Please reply to the list or to me to confirm if you will join in as we need to confirm numbers with the restaurant and also confirm if you need a vegan menu as that needs to be confirmed the day before. Once we know numbers and the preferred evening, we will confirm day, location and time. At the restaurant, you will need to look for the Koha banner ;-) Cheers, Irma Birchall CALYXt

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Fwd: [Koha] USER's GUIDE FOR LIBRARY PATRONS/CLIENTS
by Irma Birchall 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

Hi all, Happy New Year! The topic of the posts below could be of interest. Forwarded for your information. Apologies if you have already read them on the main Koha e-list. Best regards, Irma CALYX ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liz Rea <liz(a)catalyst.net.nz> Date: 22 January 2015 at 13:15 Subject: Re: [Koha] USER's GUIDE FOR LIBRARY PATRONS/CLIENTS To: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Hi Rochelle, Have a look at what the Northeast Kansas Library System has done for their users, maybe you'll find some inspiration there. http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/training/patron-training/ Cheers, Liz Rea Catalyst IT On 22/01/15 15:11, CHRP Library wrote: > Hi everyone, > I would like to ask if there is a brochure or a user's guide that can help us librarians to introduce the KOHA ILS to our users? As a librarian i think it is also important to have that in the library so our clients will have an overview of the system. It will serve as a guide on how they can register and use its full features to their advantage. Please send me a copy if we already have so I can print it and distribute to our library users. Thank you very much. > > Rochelle Palaña Basto > Librarian I > Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- -- Liz Rea Catalyst.Net Limited Level 6, Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street, Wellington. P.O Box 11053, Manners Street, Wellington 6142 GPG: B149 A443 6B01 7386 C2C7 F481 B6c2 A49D 3726 38B7 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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Koha and Cobber
by Michael . 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hello everyone. This is my first post to this list so it is an introduction of myself and my project (Cobber). A couple of years ago I created a Wordpress page about a project I had just started called Cobber Linux (1) or Cobber for short. I started Cobber as a way of teaching myself the finer details of Linux (more specifically Debian). and after a short while decided I would make Cobber a Debian based distribution specifically for Australasia. I taught myself how to use Debian Live Build to create a Live CD/DVD/USB and was going to release Cobber on a Wheezy base. Now that Debian Jessie is in Freeze I decided to use Jessie as Cobber's first base for release. In the time since I first created the Wordpress page I have taught myself webdesign, purchased a domain name "cobber-linux.org" (2), written a website (still working on it in various ways) and have developed a repository (3) which is undergoing a full rebuild over the next couple of weeks, and translated into Australian English various open source projects such as MATE, XFCE, Pidgin, and parts of XMBC. My desire for Cobber is for it to be a viable alternative to the MS Windows/Apple duopoly currently seen in Australasia. I see no valid reason for MS Windows and Apple to have market dominance for computer operating systems in schools, libraries, government offices, business', and private homes. I want to offer people in Australasia a viable option. It will be released in 4 distinct versions (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Pacific Islands) with the possibility of more if demand shows a need with a variety of Desktop Environments. You may be wondering why I have told you all this. Well, I would like to support Koha by providing Koha packages in Cobber's repository. I do not know who to ask and when I found this mailing list I thought I would join and ask here if it is ok or find out who I do need to ask. Just so you know in the process of teaching myself Reprepro and sourceforge I have already downloaded Koha (and other open source projects), created a repo on my worksation, and uplaoded the repo to my sourceforge page. I will be pulling the current repo down and recreating a new version on the same page. I hope to have a great working relationship with Koha and hope that in some way Cobber may be able to help Koha spread in Australasia. Cheers. Michael. (1) https://cobberlinux.wordpress.com/ (2) http://cobber-linux.org/cobber.html (3) https://cobberlinux.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/cobber-linux-repository-inform…

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A Road Map for Koha
by Bob Birchall 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Apologies for cross postings. In October I posted <cid:part1.02090209.00010801@calyx.net.au> about a wish to re-introduce a Road Map of future Koha development. The idea was agreed to at the December <cid:part2.04050201.03020703@calyx.net.au> monthly meeting. A page has now been added to the Koha wiki to document the Road Map: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roadmap_for_Koha The page will record work that is proposed for inclusion in future releases of Koha. It will list both proposed features and improvements to Koha's architecture. Before you rush off there, its not yet very interesting. :) It will become more interesting as developers and librarians add their plans and proposals for future releases of Koha. So you are now invited to do just that. If you are progressing work towards the Koha 3.20 or a later release, please add it to the Road Map page so that everyone can see what is coming down the track. Brief guidelines are provided on the page. Koha just keeps getting better. Thanks again to everyone who contributes in one way or another. Bob Birchall Calyx

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