From keltoiboy at gmail.com Fri Jan 9 04:33:19 2015 From: keltoiboy at gmail.com (Michael .) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:33:19 +1100 Subject: [Koha-oz] Koha and Cobber Message-ID: 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-information/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob at calyx.net.au Thu Jan 15 04:28:48 2015 From: bob at calyx.net.au (Bob Birchall) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:28:48 +1100 Subject: [Koha-oz] A Road Map for Koha Message-ID: <54B733F0.2080409@calyx.net.au> Apologies for cross postings. In October I posted about a wish to re-introduce a Road Map of future Koha development. The idea was agreed to at the December 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris at bigballofwax.co.nz Thu Jan 15 20:49:33 2015 From: chris at bigballofwax.co.nz (Chris Cormack) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:49:33 +1300 Subject: [Koha-oz] Koha and Cobber In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 9 January 2015 at 16:33, Michael . wrote: > 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. > > > Hi Michael This sounds great. I'd just point you at http://debian.koha-community.org/ We already package Koha for .deb based distributions. So you can just add this repository to your sources list. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From keltoiboy at gmail.com Thu Jan 15 22:07:29 2015 From: keltoiboy at gmail.com (Michael .) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:07:29 +1100 Subject: [Koha-oz] Koha and Cobber In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Chris I know about the Koha repository, that's where I pointed reprepro to, but it is a little confusing with Squeeze, and squeeze-dev, apparently being the major dists available. I don't know how well Koha will work on Jessie so my intent was to build packages for Jessie, unless there are packages for Jessie already there, and that way anyone who uses Cobber will have at last 3, maybe 5 if Debian do a Jessie LTS, years of use from day of Stable release which will most likely be mid way through this year sometime. As it is Squeeze LTS only has 1 more year to run and then support for Squeeze is finished. I also intend Cobbers repository to be a "1 stop shop" for packages outside of the base Debian repository. I am doing this because many people add multiple repositories added to their sources.list (e.g. Liqourix, Aptosid, Siduction, Deb-Multimedia, Mepis, Linux-Mint) and this creates problems with packages clashing. My intent is to add specific packages, and their dependencies, to Cobbers "community" repository. I hope to minimise package clashes by doing the hard work before people add multiple clashing repositories to their sources.list. Cheers. P.S. Sorry for the double up Chris, gmail replied to you only the first time and not to the mailing list so I have resent it so others can read the reply. On 16 January 2015 at 06:49, Chris Cormack wrote: > > > On 9 January 2015 at 16:33, Michael . wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> Hi Michael > > This sounds great. I'd just point you at > http://debian.koha-community.org/ > We already package Koha for .deb based distributions. So you can just add > this repository to your sources list. > > Chris > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris at bigballofwax.co.nz Thu Jan 15 22:14:25 2015 From: chris at bigballofwax.co.nz (Chris Cormack) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:14:25 +1300 Subject: [Koha-oz] Koha and Cobber In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 16 January 2015 at 10:07, Michael . wrote: > Hi Chris > > I know about the Koha repository, that's where I pointed reprepro to, but > it is a little confusing with Squeeze, and squeeze-dev, apparently being > the major dists available. > I don't know how well Koha will work on Jessie so my intent was to build > packages for Jessie, unless there are packages for Jessie already there, > and that way anyone who uses Cobber will have at last 3, maybe 5 if Debian > do a Jessie LTS, years of use from day of Stable release which will most > likely be mid way through this year sometime. > As it is Squeeze LTS only has 1 more year to run and then support for > Squeeze is finished. > > I also intend Cobbers repository to be a "1 stop shop" for packages > outside of the base Debian repository. > I am doing this because many people add multiple repositories added to > their sources.list (e.g. Liqourix, Aptosid, Siduction, Deb-Multimedia, > Mepis, Linux-Mint) and this creates problems with packages clashing. > My intent is to add specific packages, and their dependencies, to Cobbers > "community" repository. I hope to minimise package clashes by doing the > hard work before people add multiple clashing repositories to their > sources.list. > > Cheers > They've recently been reorganised, the pockets are stable (3.18.x currently), oldstable (3.16.x) and unstable (3.19.x) they do run on Jessie, Sid, Utopic and Trusty. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From keltoiboy at gmail.com Thu Jan 15 23:43:36 2015 From: keltoiboy at gmail.com (Michael .) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:43:36 +1100 Subject: [Koha-oz] Koha and Cobber In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That's excellent. Well I will have a rethink and may put Koha into sources.list.d for those who need it. Do all 3 run on Jessie and Sid? or is there a specific version for each? On 16 January 2015 at 08:14, Chris Cormack wrote: > > > On 16 January 2015 at 10:07, Michael . wrote: > >> Hi Chris >> >> I know about the Koha repository, that's where I pointed reprepro to, but >> it is a little confusing with Squeeze, and squeeze-dev, apparently being >> the major dists available. >> I don't know how well Koha will work on Jessie so my intent was to build >> packages for Jessie, unless there are packages for Jessie already there, >> and that way anyone who uses Cobber will have at last 3, maybe 5 if Debian >> do a Jessie LTS, years of use from day of Stable release which will most >> likely be mid way through this year sometime. >> As it is Squeeze LTS only has 1 more year to run and then support for >> Squeeze is finished. >> >> I also intend Cobbers repository to be a "1 stop shop" for packages >> outside of the base Debian repository. >> I am doing this because many people add multiple repositories added to >> their sources.list (e.g. Liqourix, Aptosid, Siduction, Deb-Multimedia, >> Mepis, Linux-Mint) and this creates problems with packages clashing. >> My intent is to add specific packages, and their dependencies, to Cobbers >> "community" repository. I hope to minimise package clashes by doing the >> hard work before people add multiple clashing repositories to their >> sources.list. >> >> Cheers >> > > They've recently been reorganised, the pockets are stable (3.18.x > currently), oldstable (3.16.x) and unstable (3.19.x) they do run on Jessie, > Sid, Utopic and Trusty. > > Chris > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From irma at calyx.net.au Thu Jan 22 06:51:54 2015 From: irma at calyx.net.au (Irma Birchall) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:51:54 +1100 Subject: [Koha-oz] Fwd: [Koha] USER's GUIDE FOR LIBRARY PATRONS/CLIENTS Message-ID: 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 Date: 22 January 2015 at 13:15 Subject: Re: [Koha] USER's GUIDE FOR LIBRARY PATRONS/CLIENTS To: koha at 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 Pala?a Basto > Librarian I > Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha at 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 at lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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