Thanks all for the extraordinary welcome!<br><br>The reason we were going with Express rather than installing it ourselves is that we don't have full access to our remote server, and we liked the install, cloud hosting and upgrades packaging. <br>
<br>So - is there a Koha-install work-around for not having root access to the server?<br><br>Alternatively, any recommendations if we just buy a server? I don't know anything about that but maybe we could find the money. How big, what kind?<br>
<br>Thanks again!<br><br clear="all">Beth Heller<br>Preservation Librarian<br>American Alpine Club<br>710 Tenth Street<br>Suite 15<br>Golden, CO 80401<br>303-384-0110 x13<br><a href="mailto:bheller@americanalpineclub.org">bheller@americanalpineclub.org</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Chris Nighswonger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnighswonger@foundations.edu">cnighswonger@foundations.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Beth,<br><br>Welcome to the Koha community!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2010/1/20 Beth Heller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bheller@americanalpineclub.org" target="_blank">bheller@americanalpineclub.org</a>></span><br>
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Hi. I am one of two librarians at the American Alpine Club in Golden, Colorado - all mountains, all the time. We've got about 60,000 volumes, 20,000 that circulate, and a very small budget. We do have some IT support and one amazing volunteer to help with the tech side of this project, but I am not a coder at all. We are migrating from Spectrum Winnebago.<div class="im">
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<br>I was planning to upload to Koha Express this week, but given the buyout was wondering if anyone had any information about whether this product will continue and/or any alternatives. Inexpensive alternatives. <br><br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Yes there is a very inexpensive alternative: Host Koha on your own in-house server. This is not hard at all and with your support and volunteer, you should be up and running in no time. If you/they need help, feel free to post questions here and/or join the IRC channel #koha at <a href="http://irc.katipo.co.nz" target="_blank">irc.katipo.co.nz</a><br>
<br>You can also take a look here: <a href="http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=tree" target="_blank">http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=tree</a><br><br>You will see several files with the word 'INSTALL' in them. Simply click on the filename and you can read upon the installation proceedure. The word following the period in the name (INSTALL.foo) indicates the flavor (foo) of Linux that proceedure is customized for. They are all very similar. Using Ubuntu Server, you can setup a Koha server in a couple of hours. <br>
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I would also love to hear from anyone with experience using Koha Express, and anyone who has migrated from Winnebago.<br><br></blockquote></div><div><br><br>There are several on the list who have migrated from Winnebago to Koha, iirc. Perhaps someone who has this experience will respond with help in this regard.<br>
<br>Kind Regards,<br>Chris<br></div></div>
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