[Koha-devel] Social library

[Quoc Uy]

    Thanks. It's very hard to find some volunteer to help, but i think i can call someone working with me working together. I just try to tell everyone what i really want and hope. Maybe i need time to make it come true, but i think, who love Koha must answer a question: What should we do with Koha, to make our patrons stay longer and longer in our website (it means that our website is not only the place for search some books, which is easier with google, but also the place for them to talk more and more about their favorite books, share them with friends). Of course they can do with sharing on facebook, on twitter, but it's really perfect if it shares automatically with Koha.

    When i was young, i stayed in a library, looked at a nice girl, wondered what kind of book she was reading. Now with Koha, if i know her, it's perfect when i can see what kind of books my friends are reading, how do they think about it?... right?
    I know, maybe some people thought about this before but it's quite difficult. Hope that if anyone want to make it, i can help about expanding some ideas, collect some experiences. Thanks all!



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 From: BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix at yahoo.com>
To: Quocuy <nguyenquocuy_1102 at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: Social library
 
Salve!


> Ok! I will wait for u. If u have time, we gonna talk about it more and more 
> then.

    I'm back now.

    I think the overarching thing that I have to say is that it sounds like part of what you want is already done, and the parts that aren't yet done sound like logical extensions. Stephen Johnson talks about the notion of the adjacent possible in innovation, and what you seem to be talking about all seems to fall in that realm. To me, it would boil down to a few different options if you discover that precisely what you want doesn't exist yet. You could pay for support so that a developer that does know Koha can just code what you want. You could find a volunteer somewhere that knows how to code, but doesn't necessarily know Koha. The last option is to learn everything yourself and then just do it. Whatever happens, if you ensure that you upstream what you change, it would be great. 

     I will say that your attitude helps a whole lot. You sound very positive to me. As long as you're very patient, people might get around to implementing different ideas, but the free route tends to take a very long time. There's an olde sign here that reads

Fast
Cheap
Good

You can have any 2.

    It's very true for Koha. :) Half the battle is trying to chunk things out to allow for easy consumption and describing precisely what you want the best that you can so that a developer can get a bead on what exactly you need. If you do a good job with the division of tasks, then it's easy for people to pick up a little scrap as in quilting and stitch things together.

Cheers,
Brooke
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