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Why the deafult install is important
by tajoli 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi to all, reading the IFLA 2009 papers now on-line I see this papers: "An evaluation of multi-language/multi-script functions in KOHA" NAICHENG CHANG (Tatung University, Taipei, China) and YUCHIN TSAI (National Applied Research Laboratories, Taipei, China) Link: http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/135-chang-en.pdf The problems of the authors with coded fields of Unimarc (at pageas 7-8) are probably present only because those fields are not visible as default with their plugins. Cheers Zeno Tajoli

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Re: [Koha] Support for Koha
by Krishnan M 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Here's a small (hypothetical and allegoric) story to illustrate how i feel about the e-mail transcript from the ALA meeting... Once upon a time there was a great land. Many martyrs and heroes had poured their blood, sweat, and tears to make it a beautiful place to live in. The land welcomed all to itself, and everyone that visited marvelled at its wonder. It was always fertile and provided everything that people wanted or needed, only they had to sow the seeds first, and tend them with a little sincere effort. Also, it always felt like home for anyone that cared to spend a little time there. What was in your hearts mattered a lot more than what was in your purse. And everyone that made it their home, in their own small ways, contributed even more to its wonder. Then, one day, a few people decided to cordon off a part of this land for themselves, and make like, a 'reservation'. At the time, for the people that lived in this part, it sounded like a good idea. They all felt they belonged together more than other people did, and they'd all pool their resources and make their own little part of the land more prosperous. They started building a barbed wire fence around those parts. After a while, no one outside could see what was happening within, but for towering smoke stacks, that spoke of some secret industrial activity. But the carefree winds that once fanned the free flow of ideas, the plentiful showers that nourished the soil, the rivers that brought it prosperity, and the abundant sunshine that provided energy soon decided to shun those parts that lay within the fence. The goodwill of the many failed to reach the people inside the fence, not that it was ever withheld... Slowly, the land within became barren, ..., and failed... regards, krishnan See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/

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Supporting the Open Source Concept
by Bob Birchall ＠ Calyx 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

John Yokley wrote: > I want to inform the Koha community that PTFS is committed to abide by not only the law, > but the spirit of the open source movement. PTFS will submit all the Koha code we develop This is interesting but does not advance matters very far. To date, Liblime has an exemplary record in releasing code back to the project and should be encouraged to continue that. They do not deserve to be beaten up. PTFS' flagship product remains closed source. Of greater interest to me is the apparent attitude of Liblime customers (WALDO ?) who are reported to be applying "considerable pressure by sponsored developments to embargoing the code". So they want to take all the open source code contributed so far and not add back their developments? Perhaps they can tell us whether that is true and if so explain the rationale? Bob Birchall Calyx

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Re: [Koha] Supporting the Open Source Concept
by BWS Johnson 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Salvete! Real quick shallow comment - unless Follett has done oodles of development while I wasn't looking, it's not nearly as good a product as Koha. I've no qualms about saying that we've ground to make up in terms of quality if we want to spar with the larger academic systems, but Follett is just not there. They're worse than Dynix, imho. >-------- >This is different than competition- competition is healthy! > >The philosophy of opensource software development, by all accounts, is one >of cooperation and growth. Maturity and communication. Utility and function. >Financial gains are not really addressed- yet we all recognize the need to >feed our own families, and of course our vendors and their employees share >that need. > >As I said earlier, our decision to hire a vendor was simple and clear. It is >up to the vendor to figure out how to deliver the goods, within the terms of >both our contract and the opensource license we all share, and we as >customers simply accept that. > This list is surprising for its diversity. I wonder if there are any out there in an environment similar to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. That school has a successful business incubator, and that sort of model might bear fruit if we wanted to address both competition and sustainability. If we had a foundation, the proceeds might be able to foster new businesses that supported Koha according to Open Source principles. In addition, it could sure up old ones that might be in dire straits. A third function could be funding non sexy but highly necessary jobs such as revamping and optimising old code. Cheers, Brooke

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Supporting the Open Source Concept
by Yokley, John 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Fellow Koha users and developers I have watched with growing concern the claims being made about various vendor's commitment to abiding by both the spirit and the letter of the open source movement as it pertains to Koha. Speaking on behalf of PTFS, I want to inform the Koha community that PTFS is committed to abide by not only the law, but the spirit of the open source movement. PTFS will submit all the Koha code we develop - both for our clients and the code we develop internally - back to the community for inclusion into Koha proper. We believe all vendors should do so as well. We've recently submitted several new enhancements to the Koha community and will continue to do so as we complete coding. On our part, we will not use "the code is still in testing" or "our clients haven't approved it yet" as an excuse for delaying our new enhancements to the community. We understand that for the open source concept to work all participants must contribute code and work collaboratively. This concept seems is the only ethical way to conduct business related to the Koha ILS movement. If you have any questions about PTFS, or our development concepts and strategies, please feel free to contact me directly. Best Regards John Yokley CEO P | T | F | S Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088, ext. #111 FAX: 301-654-5789 Cell: 240-447-8970 jyokley(a)ptfs.com www.ptfs.com

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SIP server question
by Erik Lewis 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Koha 3.03/Ubuntu 9.04 Started playing with setup of the SIP server got to the part of the instructions where you fire it off Nothing Tried a slight variation perl -I./ ./SIPServer.pm ./SIPServer.xml got this... koha@koha:/usr/share/koha/lib/C4/SIP$ perl -I./ ./SIPServer.pm ./ SIPServer.xml Can't locate Net/Server/PreFork.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./ /usr/ share/koha/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/ perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/ share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./SIPServer.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./SIPServer.pm line 7. nothing in the syslog or the sipserver.log Much obliged for a nudge in the right direction

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Error: Wide character in null operation
by Vimal Kumar 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Dear Friends, We are now experimenting Malayalam language ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_language) data entry with Koha for public libraries in our area. We configured unicode with MySQL and Apache ( with Debian Lenny) as per the manual. And we installed Malayalam fonts and enabled Malayalam in Debian Lenny. We encountered an error whie cataloguing, clicking on Save button on MARC fields after adding book details in Malayalam language. Following is the error message, Koha error The following fatal error has occurred: Wide character in null operation at /usr/share/perl5/MARC/Charset/Table.pm line 96. Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) Server built: Mar 10 2009 18:09:05 Koha 3.00.02.012 Koha DB 3.0002012 MySQL mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2 OS Linux localhost 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 15:54:25 UTC 2009 i686 Perl 5.008008 We request your help to solve this problem. With thanks, -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.vimalkumar.co.nr Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in OK Society Volunteer. http://oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Linux Flavour - Koha
by Librarian, SAIACS 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hello Everyone, I am sorry, if my question been answered in the past. However, I would like to ask this question that I want to know which of the linux flavour best/stable for koha implementation. I would certainly appreciate your suggestions. Someone said, Debian seems to be best :-) please advice me. Regards Mr. Yesan Sellan Chief Librarian South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Kothanur PO Bangalore - 560077 INDIA Alternative Email: yesans(a)gmail.com Ph: 91-80-2846 5649/5235/5344 Fax: 91-80-2846 5412 IMPORTANT : This message is intended only for the addressee. It may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message. Thank you.

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General question on updating Koha 3
by Tom Redfern 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Sirs, I'me having the problems with indexing and retrieving authority records per bugs in my early revision of Koha 3. Details appear below. I'm running on Suse 11 and would like a more experienced opinion on my best option. Are there any update scripts available or am I going to have to do a complete replacement of Koha on my system. If I am required to do the replacement, are there any changes to me made to my databases (MySQL)? I'm not finding any docs on this other than using the updater (for debian). Any reply, off line or otherwise, wold be appreciated. Thank you for any response and sorry for any typos, I forgot my glasses at home this AM :-) ---------- A past of my "about koha" page. About Koha * Server Information * Perl modules * Koha Team * Licenses * Translations Server information Koha version: 3.00.01.005 OS version ('uname -a'): Linux guenon 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Perl interpreter: /usr/bin/perl Perl version: 5.010000 Perl @INC: /usr/share/koha/lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl . MySQL version: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.67, for suse-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2 Apache version: Server version: Apache/2.2.10 (Linux/SUSE) Server built: Dec 3 2008 13:33:50 Zebra version: Zebra 2.0.36 (C) 1994-2009, Index Data ApS Zebra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. SHA1 ID: ce0d471c60fca91fb41f5aeeef3c1a36bd3c07e0 Using ICU

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Help with query to find out these
by Akin Adigun 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

I am using koha 3.1 on suse 11 with nozebra kindly help me out my modification log for a patron is not working fine. I need a query to fine out all these: 1. The patron that pay, writeoff af fine in koha 2. The query for all the patrons that have fines in the Library 3. Query for a patron modification log. thanks

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