[Koha] Wiki account creation

2019-11-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I just wanted to send a quick reminder to folks that are trying to get an account for the wiki. Please include some biographical information about yourself. This can be very simple and it definitely doesn't matter if it's not in English. You don't necessarily need any

Re: [Koha] Some very sad news.

2022-11-18 Thread BWS Johnson
Dear Community, The gardener of godzone will be sorely missed. It was tough keeping up with her at any age. She was a national treasure, and richly deserved the international name she made for herself. Never would she have crowed about it on her own, of course. https://digitalnz.org/recor

Re: [Koha] Splitting SQL Reports Library

2017-04-12 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Hope this makes sense. Before I say anything else, I am worried that Hea will become unmanageable in a similar fashion if the Community does not provide authorised value entries for Country, Library Type, et cetera. When I was doing the Koha Users Worldwide stuff it suffe

[Koha] Wiki Account Requests

2017-06-08 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Good news, currently there are no account requests pending in the Wiki queue. I try and check once a week or so for pending requests. I'd like to thank David Nind for often beating me to the punch. With his help and others, the queue seems to be maintained in good form with mi

Re: [Koha] How to remove unwanted characters when importing MARC data?

2017-06-21 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> Not yet. As I wrote it should be an easy way (which can be handled by an unsuspecting librarian several times a year). We hoped there is an easier way than install even more software and learn how to use it. After all it's just deleting two characters. But well, I know... "just" an

Re: [Koha] Slightly OT: Cataloging Comics

2017-07-07 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Comics and graphic novels require a lot of thought if you want to get things right. Much of this article deals with classification instead of cataloguing, but it's worth a look. At the days end, they're special periodicals. If you catalogue your magazines, you should catalogue you

Re: [Koha] Spam from BestBookBuddies (OpenLX)

2017-08-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora, > I have sent them several emails and they never answered. They are already on my list of companies to remove from the list. Cheers, Jonathan > On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 at 08:56 Owen Leonard wrote: > Has anyone else received spam from "BestBookBuddies - an Initiative > of: OpenLX Technolo

Re: [Koha] How to handle the support providers list (was Re: Spam from BestBookBuddies (OpenLX))

2017-08-09 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! I still hold the firm opinion that deleting the list is a cop out. The listing is one of the best ways that new Libraries find support if they are reluctant to do things themselves. Folks might want to think about linking Hea to this page so that people that are considering Koha ca

Re: [Koha] How to handle the support providers list (was Re: Spam from BestBookBuddies (OpenLX))

2017-08-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Mashing some stuff up here, but I feel like we need a vote on this either over the listserv or at the next IRC General Sep 6. >> Further, everyone who maintains the website do so as volunteers. Expecting them to start acting as police is probably not the best of ideas. I know for

Re: [Koha] More than 230 Libraries running their catalog on Koha ILS today in the Arab World

2018-04-08 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> These are only libraries we happened to know because we are the Koha support company for in Saudi Arabia and UAE, or they are served by a local Koha support companies, like Egypt Vision supporting some in Egypt and Saudi, or by Bywater Solutions in UAE, or libraries which have their o

Re: [Koha] Tools for collection management

2019-01-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!   Here's my soapbox answer for that. https://flowingdata.com/ Old but good: https://flowingdata.com/2010/01/21/how-to-make-a-heatmap-a-quick-and-easy-solution/ https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/47285/274_ready.pdf?sequence=2 Watcher's / listener's advisory: http:

Re: [Koha] Accents in Irish Gaelic

2011-04-14 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >We are having difficulty with Irish Gaelic - the accents are getting >>mangled in z39.50 downloads. Or in some cases it won't work at all >>because of the accents.  Are there particular settings I should check? >> >Have a look here: > >http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Encoding_and_Ch

Re: [Koha] Koha 3.18.5.1 released

2015-03-27 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >T he members of the Koha release team are proud to announce the release of > Koha 3.18.5.1. This is a maintenance release. > Hooray team! A hearty thanks to everyone that helped. :D Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-comm

Re: [Koha] Koha Logo

2015-08-28 Thread BWS Johnson
Salve! If you're doing customisations to your OPAC, you almost certainly want to check out Owen's blog. http://www.myacpl.org/koha/category/koha/customizations/ I'm not looking over your shoulder, so I'm not sure exactly what logo you're fidgeting with. If you open up Firebug, it should

[Koha] What anyone can do for Global Bug Squashing Day

2015-09-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! So, it would be really cool to just do what Magnus and Kyle said and go look at patches. Kittens! Hooray for the unsung QA heroes. But, mebbe, just mebbe, you'd like an alternative. "Self" you might be thinking "I want to help, but I'd rather stick a rusty spoon in my eye than

[Koha] KohaCon 15 Was Awesome

2015-10-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I would like to publicly thank our KohaCon15 hosts. It was magical being part of a highly academic Conference in the midst of the manicured tropical setting at IITA. There were meaty discussions about the future of the Community in Nigeria, and I was very happy to be allowed to lis

Re: [Koha] Koha] KohaCon 15 Was Awesome

2015-10-27 Thread BWS Johnson
وَعَلَيْكُمُ السَّلَامُ > I too did not make it to KohaCon15 this year in Nigeria. I was just > responding to Mr. Brooke's nice email missing to see someone attending the > conference from the Middle East, which is unfortunate for us. Don't worry, there will be another opportunity to get

[Koha] Paris

2015-11-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! What a tragedy in Paris tonight! "Il pleure sans raison." Sincerely, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

Re: [Koha] Koha comparision with other vendors

2015-11-16 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > One of our Koha candidate customer want from us some articles about > comparion of Koha with other > ILS systems. I googled but could not find a technical comparision article. > > If you know such information and share, I'll be very appreciate for that. This is a little older,

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > The Koha North America User’s Group would like to invite agencies and > libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting > held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of > instructional sessions and presentations, followed by a two d

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-20 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > So are you saying that there can only be one worldwide Koha group, and > that there cannot be national or regional level Koha groups and > corresponding meetings? Of course not. It's good to get together and talk things through. What I am saying is that folks should not call the

[Koha] SANS Holiday Hack Challenge

2015-12-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Even though this is not open source, it is free to enter, and I found it to be an excellent example of gamification and education. I also thought it a nice introduction for folks that might be keen to learn a bit more about security. https://holidayhackchallenge.com/#story Cheers,

Re: [Koha] Holds Queue Idea for Patrons

2015-12-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > When patrons inquire about this type of feature, I always tell them about the > hold suspension feature. They can keep their holds all suspended and > unsuspend > them one at a time as they decide which one they'd like next. Also a great > option for patrons who worry that their h

Re: [Koha] [ByWater Partners] [Koha North America] Your suggestions for a new name of Koha NA

2015-12-24 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! +1 It states what it is (ba dum cha) and sounds a lot more positive all while being leet like code4lib. Cheers, Brooke > koha4us > > Sam Passey, Director > Uintah County Library > 204 E. 100 N. > Vernal, UT 84078 > (435)789-6262 > pas...@uintah.utah.gov > ___

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] KohaCon16 - Registrations & Call for proposals Open

2016-01-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >>Registration is free. > This is great news. A hearty eυχαριστώ for taking the decision to have Conference with no registration fee. Thank you for the update, as well. Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org

Re: [Koha] Vote on proposed location for Koha-US meeting

2016-02-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > Koha-US (formerly, Koha-NA/NAKUG) has collected proposals for sites to > host its 2016 annual face-to-face meeting. I would like to invite you > to read each site proposal found at > and then cast your > votes to indicate your preference. Related questions and/or comments > can be subm

Re: [Koha] Collection analysis according to subject

2016-02-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > Am looking for an sql report that can help me analyse my collection > according to specific subjects offered in specific programmes in the > university.The report should be able to give me bibs and items attached to > each bib. > > Went through the KOHA wiki reports couldn't find what

Re: [Koha] Scientific articles about Koha

2016-02-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I'd like to gather bib references about scientific articles written about > Koha, or works based on Koha. > Code4lib has some of them: http://journal.code4lib.org/?s=koha > Thx a lot. Stefano Thanks to Nicole's effort, a lot of stuff from 2013ish is over at Zotero. If we all c

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Kylie Brice Hall

2016-03-19 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I would like to announce that Kyle will no longer be supported as he's been deprecated by Hall 2.0. *duck* Seriously, congratulations! Cheers, Brooke > > From: Nick Clemens >To: Todd Goatley ; Kyle Hall > >Cc: Koha ; Koha Devel >; All Staff ;

[Koha] 어글리 어메리컨 - 도와주세요

2016-03-19 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! As an ugly, stubborn, arrogant American, I simply refuse to believe that there are no Korean libraries running Koha. If you are working at a Korean Library, won't you please take a few moments and add your Library to the East Asia user's page? https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/

Re: [Koha] 어글리 어메리컨 - 도와주세요

2016-03-23 Thread BWS Johnson
안녕하세요 박병용, Ah. It is hard but worthwhile being the first. Thank you so much for your efforts. 
 감사함니다, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

Re: [Koha] translate site could not access

2016-04-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > For your information, I could not access > http://translate.koha-community.org/ from Taiwan, at the time > 2016.4.19 04:06 GMT > > -- > Wishing you all the best. . . . > It's down for me too at 3.08EST, and I get a down from Down for Everyone or Just Me. Cheers, Brooke __

[Koha] Welsh, it's what's for brekkie

2016-05-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I couldn't bear to leave all the fun to the lads. >> So now you know that you managed to hit upon one of the probably very few >> Welsh speakers on the list. >> Llyfrgellwyr yn fwy poblogaidd pan fyddant yn siarad Cymraeg. Cheers, Brooke ___

Re: [Koha] My next adventure

2016-07-15 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia Ora! > I wanted to reach out and let you all know that my last day at ByWater will > be July 29th. I do plan to remain a member of the Koha community and to > help with the manual but will probably be quiet for a couple months as I > get adjusted in my new role as Content Strategist at Red H

Re: [Koha] Welcome intro

2016-08-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > Hi, thanks for the add to the list. > I have just started using koha to catalogue my private library (around > 500 books ranging in date from 1700s to modern. Absolutely no thematic > cohesion, just stuff I collect and read. > > When I get used to koha, I plan to set up an instance fo

Re: [Koha] Average # of guests at KohaCon.

2016-08-09 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! It's varied quite widely depending on a number of factors. Purchasing power in general, cost of lodging, proximity to other Countries, scenery of the site itself, the amount of time since the last Conference, available sponsorships, et cetera all end up playing a role. No one from

Re: [Koha] New 3XXs for books macro added to wiki

2016-08-12 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> (I still have no idea why the side bar is so low on the page, > though...>_<) > > The only difference I could see when comparing it to others on the > wiki was that other pages have categories defined at the bottom of the > page. When I added the 'tips and tricks' category to this p

Re: [Koha] Kohacon 2017 at at Ayala Museum, Philippines

2016-08-12 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > Kohacon 2017 will take place at Ayala Museum, Makati, Philippines in > June 2017. You can find more info at > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon17_Proposals Ooooh. Exciting! Congratulations to the Philippines. :D Cheers, Brooke ___

Re: [Koha] Hello from Vermont

2016-08-28 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation > from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual > machine and have started to play around with it. I've exported our > catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump. Now I'm >

Re: [Koha] Friendly reminder , Dear respected Librarians(great hope you consider my survey and help me)

2016-10-28 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! Even though this was a long survey, it was easy to respond to. Thank you for forwarding this to the list and I hope others participate. Cheers, Brooke - Original Message - > From: abdoulrahman aljounaidi > To: Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 5:2

Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

2016-12-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I'm all for adding a column to the wiki for coordinates. Our wiki is so olde this was probably not a widely available feature when the Users pages were constructed. Surely the addition of the column itself would be trivial. I know it's not pretty. I've tried upping its game here an

Re: [Koha] Mistakes (?) in wiki pages

2017-01-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! To add to what Barton said: if you've lingered in the new account queue, 1) email me, 2) prove you're not a terrible spammy bot, 3) and I will make sure that you get wiki access. Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-commu

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha 3.4.0 released

2011-04-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!       Hooray for timely releases! Thanks for the hard work, everyone. I can't wait to sort through all of those new features. :D Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/

Re: [Koha] Sirsi in NZ!

2011-05-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Tēnā koutou! I think the most disconcerting element, is that according to  http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/news/29-april-2011-kotui-development?body_language=en there were three vendor decisions taken. While it is novel that this in effect makes one experience safe from another, it will be

[Koha] General Meeting

2011-05-06 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Sending out a reminder that the next meeting is  11 May 2011 at 2:00 UTC at irc.oftc.net For conversion go here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=5&day=11&hour=2&min=0&sec=0 For the agenda visit: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeti

Re: [Koha] Koha at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce

2011-05-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! >T he Library of the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce -Pontifical > University of the Holy Cross, Rome- is proud to announce the migration to > Koha > 3.2.7 of 145,000 records (200,000 items). Our catalog is online at > http://catalogo.pusc.it from May 1st. > The project lasted

Re: [Koha] DOn't ever return them if they are out?

2011-05-17 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > This is a translation related issue. The English ambiguity > itself must be solved before being able to translate this sentence into > your language. This message comes from Koha inventory tool. You have to > see how it works in English. >  Frédéric++ Paul Poulain has learnt me English

Re: [Koha] koha - items

2011-05-23 Thread BWS Johnson
a at all. Would that they would take it a bit further and set it on the curb where it belongs. Surely this is the destiny of a product with no contributors. Sincerely, BWS Johnson ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo

Re: [Koha] Upgrade to koha 3.4 breaks display

2011-06-08 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! >> > Yes. The actual po-files for german have some errors (mainly wrong > %-statements). I corrected them locally and will try to add these > corrections to translate.koha-community.org. >> Wasn't someone from Argentina on about %s in Spanish? Could this be all of the templates somehow?

[Koha] Reminder IRC Meeting 14 June 2011 1800 UTC

2011-06-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Sending out a friendly reminder that there's a community meeting over IRC tomorrow at 1800 UTC. The agenda, as well as a link to a time converter is here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_14_June_2011 I hope to see you there :D Cheers, Brooke _

Re: [Koha] Summary of Global Signoff Day 2011-06-15 - more to come?

2011-06-17 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > -- Better/other lists and visualisations? A notch in the belt visualisation. You know you wanna. > -- Could we use some kind of VoIP/videoconferencing tools to make the > social interactions seem more um... "real"? > Mumble, it's like Ventrilo, but bettah. http://sourceforge.net/

[Koha] Hooray Frenchies!

2011-07-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Congratulations, BibLibre.  http://www.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/biblibre-is-a-jei-young-innovating-company Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/ko

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Global bug squashing day #2 - 1 short summary and 2 questions

2011-07-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > Now that actually looks less impressive than it is. A lot of bugs were I disagree! Those are great numbers :D Thanks for another job well done. > And as Paul has already said somewhere else, a lot of work was also > put into organizing RFCs on the wiki: > http://wiki.koha-community

[Koha] Yanks, stop stalling and grab yer flight to India!

2011-07-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! I am a horrendous, unrepentant cheapskate. I hate paying a nickel more in travel expenses than is strictly necessary. I have circled airfare to India like a hawk over the course of the last several months. So, without further ado, from the chick that brought you "OMG how do I get to NZ

Re: [Koha] Seeking Koha Newsletter Editor

2011-07-27 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Daniel++ :D Thanks for stepping up! Cheers, Brooke > I volunteer to serve as newsletter editor. I don't know the qualifications > but can offer these tidbits: > > 1. I have experience editing newsletters and currently edit one for a > community organization. > > 2. I've participated i

Re: [Koha] lists.koha-community.org down

2011-07-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > The server managing mailing lists (and our internal mails) has been > shutdown by our provider, who think he has detected a hacking on it. So > all mailing lists x...@lists.koha-community.org are OFF for instance. > We're working to make the server live again ASAP. > > ( If you need to

Re: [Koha] Anyone still running 2.2 ?

2011-08-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> is there anyone around still running 2.2 ? We have a (old) patch to fix >> some glitches with migration from 2.2 to 3.x, is it worth dealing with it ? >> >> If you still run 2.2, please reply to this mail ! >> > I know of a lot in Malaysia, and the Philipine. Plus there are a lot

Re: [Koha] Downloaded Liblime_Koha-4.02.06

2011-08-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I downloaded the Liblime_Koha-4.02.06 from www.koha.org on Ubuntu 11.04. > > Then I followed steps in INSTALL file. > > But I am getting error - production mode - trapped fatal error. > > Should I follow INSTALL.ubuntu ? > > Please suggest ? Keep it real :D Download from http://k

Re: [Koha] KohaCon

2011-08-16 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Have y'all considered holding a local or National Conference, like KUDOS, first? I just feel like it's not our turn just yet, and I also feel as though I'd love to show off in one of our major cities. I think I'd show up for a local one, though :) Cheers, Brooke __

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Kohacon11 : Last date of paper submission extended till August 30 2011

2011-08-17 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! >This means we have to drop the "Advertisements in the >conferenceproceedings publication" type of sponsorship. The largest >sponsor we have Bharat Grahak had opted for back page of the same and I would >hate to lose that sponsorship.  I hope the other sponsors who had opted for >

[Koha] Next General Meeting :D

2011-08-28 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Y'all have surely missed me, so you will get to throw rotten virtual tomatoes at me 7 September 2011 (that's like, this year and stuff!) 18.00 UTC (watch it, those tricksey Hobbitses might not be on UTC in London! http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=9&

[Koha] KohaCon 2012 Voting

2011-09-07 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Apologies to all, I screwed up. I thought voting for KohaCon 2012 started on 1 October. It's meant to close then. That's a big oops. We're hoping that nengard will ride to the rescue and get the survey out and about based on what we did last time for KohaCon 2011. If you don't want to,

Re: [Koha] Migration from Heritage to Koha

2011-09-07 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora!        Up Baile Átha Cliath! Bail ó Dhia ar an obair. Thanks for the documentation. :D Cheers, Brooke > http://library.stp.dias.ie > http://www.stp.dias.ie/library/Heritage2Koha/howto.txt > > Thanks a lot to the Koha community! > > Kind regards, > Jef > > [1] http://www.isoxford.c

Re: [Koha] open bibliographic principles

2011-09-08 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! I took it as "Oi, guys, this is neat! Go look." It seems like something kind of neat to bear in mind as we programme and design away. Philosophy, yeah, that's the ticket. :) Cheers, Brooke > At 07:35 PM 9/8/2011 +0200, Thomas Krichel wrote: >>   On behalf of the Open Bibilographic Wo

[Koha] KohaCon 2012 Survey

2011-09-15 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! Nengard has been so kind as to set us up a survey.  http://survey.web2learning.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=63529 So go vote and stuff. :) Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.k

[Koha] Last Chance to Vote for KohaCon 2012

2011-09-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Tēnā koutou!     Just sending out the word that voting closes tomorrow for determining the location for the next KohaCon. Vote now or forever hold your peace. http://survey.web2learning.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=63529     Thanks to those that have already voted :) Cheers, Brooke __

[Koha] IRC Meeting Reminder 5 Oct 2011 10 UTC

2011-09-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Tēnā koutou!     This is your friendly neighbourhood reminder that the next general meeting is set for 5 October 2011 at 10 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=10&day=5&hour=10&min=0&sec=0     We're voting on roles, so do please turn out even if you're not

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Fwd: Interested to speak at KohaCon 2011

2011-10-14 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora!     That's great news! Thanks for this, Paul, I'm sure that everyone will be excited to hear what our friends at Open Library have to say. :D Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://l

Re: [Koha] Slides from my talk at Koha Con yesterday

2011-11-04 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora!     Me 4! They're a bit wonky on Slideshare, but if folks really want, I can email em out when I get back home in a few weeks. http://www.slideshare.net/abesottedphoenix/brookesfantasy Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-commu

[Koha] Hooray for Brenda

2011-11-19 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     Front page news over at LIANZA. http://www.lianza.org.nz/news/2011/nov/16/brenda-chawner-wins-2011-victorias-award     Congratulations! Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.

Re: [Koha] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha

2011-11-21 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >The situation we find ourselves in, is that after over a year of battling >against it, PTFS/Liblime have managed to have their application for a Trademark on Koha in New Zealand accepted. We now have 3 months to object, but to do so involves lawyers and money. We are a small semi rural

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha

2011-11-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > 2011/11/22 Lori Bowen Ayre : >> The truth is that the law isn't really on the Koha community's side >> on this issue because of the sale of the domain to Liblime way back when.     I think it's premature to say that. To my knowledge, this hasn't actually been navigated in court yet

Re: [Koha] Improving permissions on lists (virtual shelves)

2011-12-05 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! > 1  Do not allow to create a public list in the OPAC. (Only private lists.)  > Public lists are only created by staff users in the staff client.     I'm still struggling with this. While I realise that some Patrons who shall remain nameless and spammers might create stuff we don't

[Koha] Gad zukes! Another General Meeting!

2011-12-05 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     There will be another General IRC Meeting 7 December 2011 at 18.00 UTC.     If that statement means naught to you, look up your time zone and the agenda here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_7_December_2011     If you want to talk about summat and it's not

Re: [Koha] Well, this is disappointing ...

2011-12-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >I'm with you Gary. I think this is a great opportunity for the LIS students >and hope that they are indeed learning about library systems. And it is great >that Liblime is supporting the students this way.  I just hope they aren't >getting instruction in how to be a part of an open so

Re: [Koha] Well, this is disappointing ...

2011-12-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > >My hope is that by getting Koha into use in library schools, we'll see more understanding of the system, more testing (and user feedback), and, eventually a repository of lesson plans based on Koha. >     If you find them, stick them in the Zotero group. ;) Cheers, Brooke

Re: [Koha] Well, this is disappointing ...

2011-12-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >I think the key here is that Liblime is putting in the time to work with the >LIS programs.  I suspect if MassCat (or anyone else) had extended an offer, >they would have accepted.       This got misinterpreted somehow. I find it odd that you wouldn't find a way to capitalise as

[Koha] General Meeting Reminder

2011-12-29 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora!     There might only be 5 days until Iowa, but there are 6 until the next General IRC Meeting on 4 January 2012 at 10:00 UTC.     The agenda is here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_4_January_2012     Please feel free to edit it if you have summat you want

Re: [Koha] Software error

2012-01-02 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! >> I would like try use MARC21 and Unimarc in the same system. So I do like >> this "1.MARC Bibliographic framework > > I'm fairly sure that's a bad idea and not possible. The differences > between them (in terms of Koha internals) is a lot more than just the > MARC type. My natural i

Re: [Koha] Software error

2012-01-02 Thread BWS Johnson
Kia ora! >I'd set two different Koha's and use vufind to replace the opac, and mix them >both. >For the patrons, an ldap database. >Regards >To+     Or perhaps XC. http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/software/drupaltoolkit/demo The demo for Kyushu is particularly appealing.     This might be a

[Koha] KohaCon et cetera

2012-02-01 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I am a very new participant in Koha. I also would like to go to the > workshop or conference which talk about using Koha. However I do not know > when and where and how to get this information. If someone know, please let > me know!     First thing is first. Welcome to the Community!

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] IRC meeting decision about "discussion"

2012-02-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > (Koha general mailing list reader: this mail is also for you, please > read it's an opportunity to participate to Koha, even if you don't have > technical skills !) >     +1 > * the delay for discussion is "until next IRC meeting, not less than 1 > week"     I think that should

Re: [Koha] Signing On

2012-02-23 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > My name is Steve Campbell, and I am a trustee of the Converse Free Library in > Lyme, New Hampshire, in the US. We are a small public library: about 1,400 > patrons and 25,000 items in our catalog. We have a full-time director, two > part-time assistants, and a couple dozen voluntee

Re: [Koha] Fwd: Koha questions!

2012-03-06 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >         My supervisor asked me to look at Koha and compare its > features with our current ILS (Voyager).   We had seen a support > company's version of Koha a few years back and I started using this > company's version for the comparison.  Are support company versions of > Koha part

Re: [Koha] KohaCon

2012-03-09 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     Ta! I went ahead and added that to the KohaCon12 Summary page on the wiki, since I figure people will inevitably delete that email, or perhaps sign up later and never know it existed. :D If that's not okay, then edit it out. Cheers, Brooke

Re: [Koha] Computers in Libraries

2012-03-15 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > Anyone going to this year's Computers in Libraries conference? >     It's in my backyard, so I'm willing to meet up for tea or drinks. :) Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://list

Re: [Koha] KOHA

2012-03-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     Version information can be found on the About page of the Intranet. It's a link in the lower right hand corner, right after the login. :) Cheers, Brooke - Original Message - > From: Chris Cormack > To: jan > Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:1

Re: [Koha] Call for Nominations: Roles for 3.10

2012-03-28 Thread BWS Johnson
Tena Koutou! > Just a bump... we still need a Translation Manager (someone with a > non-English first language preferred), and specific module maintainers. > More bug wranglers are always welcome, too! >     *cough* Marjiana or Dorbica *cough* > He aha te mea nui o te ao? > He tangata! > He t

[Koha] To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow

2012-04-03 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     If you only make 2 IRC Meetings a year, tomorrow's is one to catch. 4 April at 10 UTC     we're voting on roles for 3.10. There's still time to visit the wiki, step up, and volunteer in advance of the meeting. So have your +1s at the ready! See you soon, Brooke ___

Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012

2012-04-09 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > On 10 April 2012 10:02, G. Laws wrote: >> Oh no, I took your comments as you intended, I think. >> >> So KohaCon13 in USA, you are suggesting?  New OrleansSan >> AntonioMiami...San Fransisco >> > Big cities are expensive, how about Lawrence Kansas .. home of NEKLS >

Re: [Koha] Koha in Basque available

2012-04-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > It means that some strings haven't been translated into Basque. You will > see them by clicking on the link.     And don't forget, if you see %s s in em, don't take em out! Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org K

Re: [Koha] Kohacon13, was: KUDOS 2012

2012-04-10 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >> One option you could consider is to put in a bid to host KohaCon13. [...] > >     "Who might be interested in hosting KohaCon13?     Well heck, I might. I just edited the wiki to that effect, too. I'll continue to add information to flesh things out nicer. I started a table so t

Re: [Koha] KUDOS 2012

2012-04-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I think Argentina and it's 'asado' are worth a KohaCon. >     South America++ Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

Re: [Koha] Kohacon13, was: KUDOS 2012

2012-04-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > I'll throw my hat in for having it in Erie, PA. Short drive from > Pittsburgh, and we have the best beaches around! > > http://www.presqueisle.org/ > http://www.visiteriepa.com/ > http://www.bayfrontconventioncenter.com/     There's a table for this. Just sayin'. http://wiki.koha-c

[Koha] General IRC Meeting Today 2 May 2012 at 02:00 UTC+0

2012-05-01 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     There's a General IRC Meeting 2 May 2012 at 02:00 UTC+0     It's in #koha IRC channel (IRC server irc.oftc.net)     I'd like to firm up a bid slate for KohaCon13 so we can send a ballot out and know where it's going to be next year. Also, I expect there to be a fair bit of ne

[Koha] KohaCon 2013 Wiki Reminder

2012-05-08 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     A while back, a mess of folks expressed interest over the listserv in bidding for KohaCon 2013. This is great. :) What is not great is that the folks that proclaimed their love of hosting over the listserv do not match with this wiki page: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohac

Re: [Koha] RDA fields 336, 337, 338

2012-05-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >T he working Group of spanish Koha-Kobli community (http://kobli.bage.es) is > finishing to bring up to date the default framework to the last update of > MARC21, the 14 (April 2012), we will send it to Koha community shortly. > > We believe that it is not at all incompatible to upda

Re: [Koha] RDA fields 336, 337, 338

2012-05-11 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! >>     Excepting that they haven't. This was sent out to the GOVDOCS > listserv. >> > Except that they have > > http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html >     That's from October. This is from today. http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1205B&L=GOVDOC-L&T=0&

Re: [Koha] Next general IRC meeting: 18 July 2012 at 10:00 UTC+0

2012-06-13 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     That, and I was planning to just cover unfinished business in the new meeting. We rarely have old business, so it should fit. Cheers, Brooke ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.

[Koha] KohaCon 13

2012-06-20 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     I'm glad to see more folks on the wiki as we get ready to close the ballot. Note that Africa hasn't yet hosted conference. Also *cough* South America never, ever has. <-- Hint.     If you're still thinking about hosting, please edit the wiki right this very second so that Nicole c

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