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Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 11: November 2010
by Nicole Engard 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

This issue has a lot of links and should be read online to see all of the external content: http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-1issue-11-november-2010 Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 1, Issue 11: November 2010 Table of Contents * KohaCon10 Summary o Summary of KohaCon10 in Blog Posts o KohaCon10 Presentations o KohaCon10 Videos o KohaCon10 Pictures KohaCon10 Summary of KohaCon10 in Blog Posts KohaCon10 took place in Wellington, New Zealand last month to honor 10 years of Koha development, use and community! It seems that your trusty documentation manager was unofficially names the official blogger of the conference, so excuse a newsletter full of links to posts written by me (and Ian Walls, my colleague who had cover the sessions I couldn’t). * Conference Proper o Keynote o Why a Librarian Loves Koha o Koha and Kete o Koha Adoption in Nigeria o Koha Governance o What’s Coming in Koha 3.4 o Fun with Library Data o Identifying eBooks o A cooperative view o Koha in Schools o Sharing is Good o History of Koha o Koha in Prison o Participation is Key o Koha in Malaysia o LAMP to Koha o Promoting Free Software in Libraries o Open Library and Koha o Koha: 10 years in 10 minutes * Hackfest o Intro to Git o Git and Koha o Template Toolkit o MySQL and Postgres Differences o Debian Packaging for Koha o Koha in the Cloud o An Argument for a project Coding Style o Ideas for Koha 4.0 o Koha Performance * Summaries o KohaCon10 is Finished o KohaCon10 Additional Posts KohaCon10 Presentations Some KohaCon10 presentations were posted on SlideShare, others posted on personal websites and others plotted on a map. If I’ve missed any please feel free to add them in the comments below. * KohaCon10 on SlideShare * KohaCon10 Presentation Map * Specific Presentations o Koha at ASHS by Mark Osborne o Fun with Library Data by David Friggens KohaCon10 Videos KohaCon10 videos are still making their way online, here are a few that are up so far. You can search for the rest as they’re added on blip.tv by using the keyword “kohacon10” * Keynote by Rosalie Blake * Why Librarians Love Koha by Lee Phillips o Video of Lee’s librarians * Kete and Koha by Walter McGinnis * Koha uptake in Nigeria by Olugbenga Adara * Library Data for Fun & Profit by David Friggens * Koha: 10 years in 10 minutes KohaCon10 Pictures Mostly KohaCon10 pictures were posted on Flickr and tagged “kohacon10“. My favorites were taken by Kristina, she knows how to take pictures!! Thank you to all who took pictures and shared them so that those back home could share in the festivities with us and so that we can all look back and remember our time together fondly. What we didn’t get was a group picture that I could post here, so you’ll have to go browse through the Flickr pictures and spot your friends and community members that way. Newsletter edited by Nicole C. Engard, Koha Documentation Manager. Please send future story ideas to me.

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how to access koha 3.0 opac from client system
by Yatheesh Y 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Dear all I installed koha 3.0 on ubuntu my sytem in LAN i want give permission to access koha from client system please tell me what steps should i follow --

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storage space concern for Koha and requirements
by Caitlin McGurk 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi all, Very base (and possibly ignorant) question regarding the installation of Koha and its requirements (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) from a beginner. For a collection of 9,000 materials, does anyone have a concept of how much computer space that would take up on a hard drive? Trying to evaluate how large of a backup will be needed once everything is in place. Thank you Caitlin McGurk Head Librarian The Center for Cartoon Studies mcgurk(a)cartoonstudies.org

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Semi-automatic minutes for IRC meetings on #koha
by Galen Charlton 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi, At Chris Cormack's suggestion, I have added the MeetBot [2] plugin to munin's bag of tricks. MeetBot is a tool to help run IRC meetings and, more importantly, produce a summary of the discussion, including action items, automatically. Here's a brief list of the important commands. Commands for the chair: #startmeeting - Start a meeting. Whoever starts the meeting is designated the owner (and have permanent chair powers). #chair - Add somebody to the list of chairs #endmeeting - End the meeting. #topic - Set a new topic. #agreed - Document an agreement in the minutes. Commands for Everyone: #info - Add an info item to the minutes. People should liberally use this for important things they say, so that they can be logged in the minutes. #action - Document an action item in the minutes. Include any nicknames in the line, and the item will be assigned to them. (nicknames are case-sensitive) #idea - Add an idea to the minutes. #help - Add a "Call for Help" to the minutes. Use this command when you need to recruit someone to do a task. (Counter-intuitively, this doesn't provide help on the bot) #link - Add a link to the meeting minutes. The link should be the first non-command on the line, other commentary after the link is OK. Links beginning with http:// and a few other protocols are automatically detected. There is a manual [2] for MeetBot available which includes a tutorial and a reference to its full set of commands. For an example of the summary generated by the bot, please check out: http://librarypolice.com/koha-meetings/2010/koha.2010-11-14-19.41.html The full log corresponding to this meeting is: http://librarypolice.com/koha-meetings/2010/koha.2010-11-14-19.41.log.html If anybody wants to hold a fake (or even a real) meeting to try it out, I'll be around to help. I propose that we try MeetBot for the next general IRC meeting; if we like the results, we can adopt it. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot [2] http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt(a)gmail.com

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November Newsletter
by Nicole Engard 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Hello all, I'm thinking for the next Koha Newsletter we'll do a conference sum-up. So between the start of the conference and the 12th of November please send me links to posts you may have written about conference sessions, links to pictures from KohaCon, and anything else conference related. Thanks Nicole C. Engard

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how to do administrative tasks on ubuntu
by Yatheesh Y 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

can any one help me how to do administrative task on ubuntu how to login as root ? how to run LAN sharing How to give printer connections thank you

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after install i cannot access koha via apache
by kevinjns5＠gmail.com 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Hello all, I have downloaded and installed koha 3.20 I was able to access the page via http://192.168.2.3:8080 but got the following message: Access denied for user 'kohaadmin'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 692. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 33. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth.pm line 33. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/mainpage.pl line 23. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/mainpage.pl line 23. Ubuntu 10.10 koha 3.2 Thanks for any inspiration kevin

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Koha in three words
by M. Brooke Helman 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Kia Ora! It's Friday on the wrong side of the world, so here's the tag cloud link comprised of all of your hard brain work: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/File:Zecloud2.png So what? Here's what: I will toss that into my pattened bs brew, stir, add some watered down whiskey, hopefully acquire some helpful planning ratbags, and as if by magic, I intend to present the fruits of that labour at the next IRC meeting on 8 December. If you are interested in taking part in this madness, email meh. We'll try weaving as one :D Cheers, Brooke

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Check the borrowers that are suspended
by Vitor Fernandes 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hello. I'm want to create a report to check whick are the borrowers/users that are suspended. Which attribute of database tell me if the borrower is suspended? I've already checked the database but i don't know which attribute is. Thanks for your time. Regards. Vitor Fernandes

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Re: [Koha] Proposal to form Koha Technical Committee
by Lori Bowen Ayre 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Just an FYI, I just spent the last 45 minutes trying to understand how the various RFCs that exist on the wiki relate to the bugs in Bugzilla and could not figure it out. Some are in one place but not the other. I tried to find a hold-related RFC that seemed to match up with items in Bugzilla to no avail. So while I'd be happy to edit the wiki to make it more easy for newbies to understand how to properly register an enhancement so you can get it in the queue on to start promote discussion...I am too much of a newbie to succeed evidently. Lori On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:07 PM, M. Brooke Helman < abesottedphoenix(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Salve! > > > >> > I did look at this and it was very helpful. The questions I still have > remain > unanswered but this would be the best place to answer those questions. I > could > work on making some of those changes directly if you like. What is the > protocol > for editing those pages? > >> > > > > > > > >Have you looked at all at > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:RFCs > > > > It's a wiki. Have at it! If folks don't like it, they'll edit your > changes. > > Cheers, > Brooke > > > >

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