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General #koha IRC meeting times
by Thomas Dukleth 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

How to equitably distribute meeting times for monthly #koha IRC meetings is an open question. People who have no time for formal analysis may opt to go directly to my suggestion for meeting times at the end of this message. IRC meetings with several participants are good for quick clarification of issues but the reasonable time constraints on IRC meetings make such meetings a poor venue for more careful reflection and discussion. We have the mailing lists for more careful reflection and discussion. Despite much experience considering meeting times, the issue deserves some degree of formal analysis. 1. CONTEXT. We have monthly general meetings on the #koha IRC channel which are open to everyone. They tend to last about one hour and are mostly concerned with clarifying the state of development progress in real time for various branches of Koha and other matters of administration. Sometimes, votes are taken at meetings on matters which are usually minor but occasionally important matters such as project development roles. More participation in Koha would be good even if meetings might became a little longer or require some additional time management for meetings as a consequence of more participation. Choosing one time at which all interested people distributed throughout the world could meet has always been difficult. During most of the past two years, we have made efforts to fairly distribute meeting times by alternating the hour from one meeting to the next. 2. CURRENT ISSUE. The issue of changing the meeting time by 8 hours at each successive meeting has been raised in recent meetings. I am not certain whether that was formally agreed but I question the wisdom of changing times by an arbitrary 8 hours as we do not have an arbitrary global distribution of people interested in Koha. I conducted a trivial analysis of distribution of the population in various time zones. Maybe an examination would help avoid arithmetically equal distribution of meeting times based on 24 hours where arithmetical equality with clocks might not be equality for actual people which could harm instead of help meeting participation. 3. ASSUMPTIONS. For the purpose of trivial analysis, I have taken some simple presumptions which may reflect my own personal preferences but are not uninformed by the experience of when people have and have not participated in meetings at various hours. The possibility that any particular meeting might need to address an especially important issue should discourage choosing any meeting times which would be extraordinarily difficult for most people interested in Koha to attend. I take avoiding sleep disruption by those motivated to participate to be the most important consideration. I presume that midnight to 6 AM local time are the most problematic hours for starting a meeting and 2 AM to 4 AM to be the most problematic hours within that time. I somewhat ignore issues of seasonal local time adjustments, regular commuting times, school times, etc. Please raise those issues if they present a serious problem generally. 4. SOURCES. The Interactive Time Zone Map at http://www.jgiesen.de/astro/astroJS/timezone/index.htm is helpful in showing population centres in different time zones. 5. RELATIVELY LOW POPULATION TIME ZONES. Relatively low population time zones might reasonably be given least consideration for time preference until interest in Koha is more evenly distributed globally. UTC +11 - Time Zone L - New Caledonia UTC -1 - Time Zone N - Cape Verde UTC -9 - Time Zone V - Alaska, USA UTC -10 - Time Zone W - Hawaii, USA UTC -11 - Time Zone X - American Samoa; Midway Islands UTC -12 - Time Zone Y - Marshall Islands My suggestion about meeting times at the end is intended to be fair on a global basis but is weighted towards higher population time zones than those above. 6. RANGES OF HIGH POPULATION TIME ZONES. 6.1. EASTERN HEMISPHERE HIGH POPULATION RANGE. 6.1.1. EDGES OF EASTERN HEMISPHERE HIGH POPULATION RANGE. UTC +12 - Time Zone M - New Zealand - Avoid UTC 14 -16 or better avoid UTC 12 - 18 UTC +0 - Time Zone Z - Ghana; Iceland; Morocco; Portugal; Senegal; UK - Avoid UTC 2 - 4 or better avoid UTC 0 - 6 6.1.2. OVERALL EASTERN HEMISPHERE HIGH POPULATION RANGE. Avoid UTC 14 - 23.59 and 0 - 4 or better avoid UTC 12 - 23.59 and 0 -6. 6.2. WESTERN HEMISPHERE HIGH POPULATION RANGE. 6.2.1. EDGES OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE HIGH POPULATION RANGE. Time Zone P - Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay - Avoid UTC 5 - 7 or better avoid UTC 3 - 9. UTC -8 - Time Zone U - British Columbia, Canada; California, Oregon, and UTC -3 - Washington, USA - Avoid UTC 10 - 12 or better avoid UTC 8 - 14. 6.2.2. OVERALL WESTERN HEMISPHERE HIGH POPULATION RANGE. Avoid UTC 5 - 12 or better avoid UTC 3 - 14. 7. LEAST PROBLEMATIC TIMES AND PAST MEETING TIMES. UTC 19 is outside the time range adverse for the western hemisphere high population time zones and the outside edges of the eastern hemisphere high population time zones. UTC 19 has frequently been used for Koha meetings. UTC 10 is best for the more populous eastern hemisphere than the less populous western hemisphere. UTC 10 has been used in alternation with UTC 19 for many Koha meetings. 8. SUGGESTION. Alternating between UTC 5, 10, and 19 with occasional adjustment for seasonal changes in local time seems to me best for encouraging diverse participation based on my trivial analysis. However, UTC 5 maybe a sufficiently poor time for western Europe and Africa that there would be no additional participation from people in western Europe and Africa at UTC 5 relative to UTC 2. If UTC 5 is a sufficiently poor choice, then perhaps the UTC 2 hour chosen for the next meeting may have no worse an effect on participation from western Europe and Africa than UTC 2 which is a better choice for the western hemisphere high population time zones. Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com +1 212-674-3783

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Re: [Koha] overdues with fines
by Chris Cormack 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Heya Nicole Dont know the answer but I have cced the devel list so more developers will see it. A lot have the main list on digest so for development questions, of which documentation of features most certainly is, the devel list will get you a better hit rate. Chris Nicole Engard <nengard(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I've asked before - but got no answer. Anyone know what this report is >for? Overdues with Fines? > >It's a blank section in the manual: >http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-4-manual-en/?ch=x8286#overduesfin… > >Nicole >_______________________________________________ >Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

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KOBLI, a customized version of KOHA
by domingo.arroyo＠MCU.ES 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Dear all, I am Domingo Arroyo and I work for the Library Area in the Spanish Ministry of Culture. We have been working in order to make an ILS available to libraries of the Central Government. Last year we evaluated Koha as a possible solution (More information in our repository http://hdl.handle.net/10421/4711 ) and we started the KOHA customization for our libraries with MASmedios (a Spanish company) Our customization and development is focused on: - Spanish (bd content, templates, etc.) - Basic features in cataloguing (indicators, 008 and 006 tags..) - Translator manager - Bugs solution - Css and styles - Installation (in order to make easier the installation process for individual libraries) - Digital repository add-on. We are involved in Koha community developing (basic features and Bugs solutions ) for future versions of Koha and testing. We have made a "customized version" and we have named it Kobli (Koha + biblioteca) and it will be available for libraries of the Central Government, and any other one, in a short time. This year at least five Central Government libraries are going to migrate to Koha-Kobli. We want to continue our work in Koha and our Kobli, so I hope you'll find it interesting and valuable. We are keeping you informed about this project. If you want more information, please contact with: Domingo Arroyo domingo.arroyo(a)mcu.es Alicia Sellés alicia(a)masmedios.com Salvador Zaragoza Salva(a)masmedios.com

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Task Scheduler
by Vitor Fernandes 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi there. I'm having a problem with task scheduler. I know that the tool only works with users that have permissions to use it. How I can set permissions to a user to use the tool? Maybe this is system configuration problem. Thanks in advance. Vitor Fernandes

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manual.koha-community.org
by Nicole Engard 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

One of the complaints about the Koha manual is that it's not searchable. This was because we (aka Liz) went out of her way to make the manual work in the WordPress template we were using (which we all appreciate very very very much). After months of trying to figure how to make the manual searchable, we came to the conclusion that it would have to be pulled out of the WP site and put on it's own plain old HTML page. So, ByWater has set up such a site that pulls the manual from git nightly and updates it - once we get that site finalized we can investigate search options. I'm writing to ask the community for permission to have manual.koha-community.org point to ByWater's servers to host up the manual for all to see. We can keep the page on the WordPress site that lists the manuals and I'll just update the links to point to the right place. If this is okay with whomever needs to make such a decision (all of you and those who hold the domain) please let us know and we'll get the necessary info to the person in charge of managing DNS. Thanks Nicole C. Engard Koha Documentation Manager ByWater Solutions

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Koha implementations
by Paul 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

The 1st April newsletter from "Library Technology Guides Editor" notes that the following have all implemented Koha in March 2011. 2011-03-23. Plumas County Library System 2011-03-17. Yates Center Public Library 2011-03-15. Northeast Kansas Library System 2011-03-15. Drexel University Library 2011-03-15. College of Biblical Studies Encouraging... Paul Tired old sys-admin

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Koha - frameworks and indicators
by Linda Culberson 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

All, I was wondering about doing authorized values for the indicators of some of the fields. Has anyone had experience with this or any comments as to its feasibility/usefulness? Thanks! -- Linda Culberson lculber(a)mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824

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Re: [Koha] General #koha IRC meeting times
by Paul 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

At 12:27 AM 4/8/2011 +0000, Thomas Dukleth wrote: [snip to avoid bandwidth] >We have monthly general meetings on the #koha IRC channel which are open >to everyone. [snip] More participation in Koha would be good even if >meetings might became a >little longer or require some additional time management for meetings as a >consequence of more participation. [snip] >UTC -8 - Time Zone U - British Columbia, Canada; California, Oregon, and >UTC -3 - Washington, USA - I might well be tempted to lurk (and maybe even participate when I get used to the format), but I'm a little confused. I'm located in the same zone as Washington DC (Eastern Standard Time, which is UTC -5; UTC -4 for DST), and you appear to give the time of day for the meeting as "Alternating between UTC 5, 10, and 19 with occasional adjustment for seasonal changes" which would give (for me) midnight, 5am and 2pm thus putting two of three into your least effective time frame. Your analysis was based on "general population" as far as I can see (and UTC - 5 is fairly well populated - the whole of the USA Eastern seaboard, two thirds of the Canadian population and large chunks of S.A.) - but do you have geographic distribution numbers for Koha users (current and potential), developers, etc? Thanks and best regards, Paul Tired old sys-admin

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Label Item Search
by Vitor Fernandes 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi there. I'm having a little problem searching items for label by dates. I've saw the code (label-item-seach.pl) and it's done a ccl query where the date insert it's transform in acqdate. That field acqdate is a Zebra index field (I think so). Which MARC or Koha field maps to that field? It's the 099c (date of creation)? Regards. Vitor Fernandes

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Yohannes Mulugeta via LinkedIn 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

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