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Re: [Koha-devel] Time for another Koha meeting
by Owen Leonard 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

> Can we make the meeting Thursday this week? > > 11PM (9PM GMT) if at all possible? If you mean Thursday November 25, that's Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., a national holiday. No one will be at work, and only the real fanatics will be in #koha ;) -- Owen

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Re: [Koha] cost of koha
by H S Rai 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Yesterday at 5:24am -0800 BWS Johnson wrote: I thank Paul POULAIN for providing detail about contribution by different developers. > >So, some comparison of this sort (cost to benefit ratio, total > >cost of ownership etc), which may help potential user or > >decision maker to take infomed decision and not be misguided by > >marketing executive of proprietary software > > That's not an easy question at all. Agreed. But if respectable members on this list pool their information to have a such type of white paper, then that will boost usage and promotion of Koha. Is there something like "Koha advocacy"? -- H. S. Rai _____________________________________________________________________ http://www.grex.org/~hsrai | Alternate E-mail: hsraidce(a)iitr.ernet.in ___________________________|_________________________________________ : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Synchronising time with net time servers LOST #240 To synchronise the time on your system with Time Servers on the net (e.g. time.nuri.net, time.hmt.org) Do : #rdate -s some.time.server;/usr/sbin/setclock ####[mallet (at) efn.org]##################################### :

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Time for another Koha meeting
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hi all, As Paul is making good progress with the release of 2.2, another release candidate out over the weekend, can we please have another Koha IRC meeting. Specifically we'll be looking for feedback on the release canadidates, to see where the documentation project is at, and to sort out a publicity plan for when the new release is out. Can we make the meeting Thursday this week? 11PM (9PM GMT) if at all possible? Let me know if you're able/unable to make it cheers Rachel -- _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications MANAGING DIRECTOR Ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org

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root access / installation ?
by Benjamin James Meynell 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I am considering installing KOHA but I am limited by not having root access to the linux server. All I have is a directory that I can write to. I am wondering if it's possible to install KOHA, all required PERL modules and MySQL without having root access? Thanks, Ben Meynell

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z3950 module:
by Gerry Arthus 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

I could not get my z3950 to work in the new koha install, just as others have reported. After reading the documentation for this module, it should have the EVENT:: module and Yaz toolkit both installed before installing NET::Z3950. I will know soon whether this works and I intend to go back and examine the documentation for all modules and then rewrite the installation document which I had written for Aurox. We must clean such things up in the installation documentation since this makes installs either unstable or difficult to fix. I will try to get my documentation for Aurox done by early next week. Incidently I found this out when using webmin to install modules as it tells many times which prerequisites are needed for module install, But not all of the time. Gerry

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Upgrade Koha on Win32/Some errors !!!
by Adalid Ortiz 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Just testing run "perl koha.upgrade" send me the following error: NO /USR/BIN/PERL Koha expect to find the perl executable in the /usr/bin directory. It is use of uninitialized value in -x at install.pm line 885, <STDIN> line 3. Not there on your system...... And ask me for the path of perl that is /usr/bin/perl ins Windows... and give me more error messages like: Can't use string ("/usr/bin") as an array ref while "strict refs" in use at install.pm line 535, <STDIN> line 4. I'm testing on Windows 98. But like to install on a linux(Debian) account but my webmaster give me no rights to install perl modules. Any help here. Gracias, LIC. FELIPE ADALID ORTIZ ANZALDO Area de Medios Electrónicos Biblioteca Loyola http://www.loyola.tij.uia.mx UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA TIJUANA Ave. Centro Universitario 2501 Playas de Tijuana Tijuana, B.C., México 22200 Tel. 664 630-1577 Ext. 623 Fax 664 630-1591 eMail adalid(a)tij.uia.mx "No sobreviven los más fuertes, ni los más inteligentes, sino aquellos que tienen una mayor capacidad para adaptarse a los cambios." --Charles Darwin--

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Friendly not time sensitive request
by BWS Johnson 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Salvete! I haven't seen 2.2 RC 2 yet, but, I was thinking. Yes, I do that sometimes. It's annual drive time here at my little Library. It would be phenomenal, stupendous, even extremely spiffy if someone knows of a way to merge my patrons' mailing information with a preextent Excel mailing list. I do have open office here at work, too, so that would be nifty. This would allow me to save an awful lot of time. Thanks, Brooke @ Hinsdale

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Koha 2.2.0RC2 released
by Paul POULAIN 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

It's here : http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=283928 Diff 2.2RC1 => 2.2RC2 ********************* * bugfix for import in reservoir : title and isbn where not extracted. * bugfix in OPAC : it was possible to reserve books that where "notforloan" * bugfix in circulation : no warning when a reserve was made on a book that you try to issue to someone else. * bugfix & improvement for catalogue management behaviour when MARC=OFF * bugfix in bookshelves (in CVS, probably not in official tar.gz) * bugfix in online help (in CVS, probably not in official tar.gz) updater should work between 2.2.0RC1 and 2.2.0RC2 (pls report any upgrade here to confirm) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Re: [Koha] cost of koha
by BWS Johnson 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

>I thank Paul POULAIN for providing detail about contribution by >different developers. > >> >So, some comparison of this sort (cost to benefit ratio, total >> >cost of ownership etc), which may help potential user or >> >decision maker to take infomed decision and not be misguided by >> >marketing executive of proprietary software >> >> That's not an easy question at all. > >Agreed. But if respectable members on this list pool their >information to have a such type of white paper, then that will boost >usage and promotion of Koha. > >Is there something like "Koha advocacy"? That wasn't my full answer at all. As I replied off list, the actual answer to that question is highly complex because the proprietary vendors charge based on a number of different factors, so you would have to compare the cost of Koha to the cost of a proprietary package on an individual library basis. That's not even counting a feature comparison or stability comparison, et cetera. I did say in my wiki that my server only ran me about $700 which would of course be much less today for comparable components. I don't think that this is a waste of time if it's something that you wanted to tackle, but it's certainly not something that I would want to help research. I'd rather help with documentation first. I think the biggest boost to usage will be the great idea that I believe Rachel had of visiting shows and showing people Koha first hand. I think Koha is catching on somewhat because there seem to be more articles in the works that mention it. I'm itching to see the 2.2 features as soon as the husband/systems administrator installs it for me. :) I'm always terrified that my data will disappear in a puff of smoke, but that didn't happen last time, so I'll cross my fingers for this time. Cheers, Brooke @ Hinsdale, MA

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Bug: Biblio.pm
by Waylon Robertson 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Biblio.pm Line 1697: $biblioitem->{'pages'}, $biblioitem->{'bnotes'}, should be: $biblioitem->{'pages'}, $biblioitem->{'notes'}, moredetail.tmpl expects bnotes, but in the biblioitem table, its notes. so it doesn't work.: Line 30 of moredetail.tmpl: Notes:  Should be: Notes:  as moredetail.pl passes the table results bibitem, which has notes, not bnotes. In saveitem.pl its notes too, so in passing to newbiblio, saves a null string to bnotes... and biblioitem.notes is always null. A few bnotes mistakes in other files: line 96 in modbib.pl: notes => $data->{'bnotes'} should be: notes => $data->{'notes'} modbibitem.pl - line 119: $template->param(bnotes=>$data->{'bnotes'}); should be: $template->param(bnotes=>$data->{'notes'}); in the opac cgi directory - opac-moredetail.pl line 95: Notes: $data->{'notes'} should be: Notes: $data->{'bnotes'} marc_subfields_structure.pl line 100: if ($field eq 'notes') { $field = 'bnotes'; } Trying to repair the mistakes someone made... and forgetting to update the table to include a bnotes field? fix by: # if ($field eq 'notes') { $field = 'bnotes'; } comment out. z3950import.pl line 809: $biblioitem{bnotes} =$input->param('notes'); should be: $biblioitem{notes} =$input->param('notes'); --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.796 / Virus Database: 540 - Release Date: 13/11/2004

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