[Koha-devel] (Pre)Meeting Notes

[Nicholas Rosasco]

In the interests of expediting the meeting, I thought I'd summarize some
stuff, and just take questions/ideas later...

-------------Translations-------------
We have a mail list for translators:
  koha-translate at lists.sourceforge.net
(clever name, eh?).  I'll be sending announcements of new versions, etc in
need of translation on that list.

My immediate target is the installation section of the manual and the actual
application stuff...
My hope is to get (we have a bunch of potential languages floating around as
possibles) a system going:
application+install -> manual+website (hosted at CountryCode.koha.org) ->
template+'maintenance' translation

At the moment, I'm asking that we only consider supporting languages with at
least two (active, willing) people on
http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=TranslationTeams,
which has a list of anyone interested in doing translation effort.  If you
know someone interested in a language, and they aren't on that list -- I
don't know about them!  PleasePleasePlease put them on that list... thanks.
The 2 person guideline is taken from Apache, and I'd prefer -- for
credibility reasons, and support/upgrade reasons as Koha evolves -- to not
support anything without two people interested.

At the moment:
There is a fr.koha.org (thanks to Paul) getting underway.
Italian is probably our next candidate for a CountryCode.koha.org.



-------------Documentation-------------
Rosalie (who has also been our Peerless Proofreader for the first version of
the manual) is producing fabulous stuff for the next version of the manual,
which will hopefully include the Librarian's manual.  Look for that to hit
the website real/soon/now :).  Also, as soon as that is done, I'll probably
be cleaning up some of what we have formatting, etc wise.

I expect to have some case study information being collected soon (more to
come on that).

Lastly, I'd like to clean up the wiki soon -- any comments? I'd also like to
try again to do a features/version list since we've shaken things up with
the early arrival of some things.


-------------Community-------------
Pat has done a fabulous job of getting notices out to places like
http://www.usrlib.info and http://www.oss4lib.org.
We also have members involved in the umbrella group/project the Callimachus
Group (http://www.callimachus.org), which I'm helping organize to promote
some shared effort in regards to things like conferences.