I happen to have written a public computer kiosk system called Libki that I have integrated with Koha so our patrons have a single signon for both LibKi and Koha (all password and login changes are made in Koha and propagated to LibKi ). You can check it out here: http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/libki-kiosk-system/ If you are interested I'd love to have some help with it. I've had plans to add a reservation system to it, but I haven't had the time ( we're switching from dev_week to 3.0 and all my time has been dedicated to that ). I'd also like to write a dedicated Windows client ( to make it really work well on Windows it needs to be written in .Net ), and last on the list is a rewrite of the universal client as C++/Qt4. The current client is written in PHP5/Gtk and works quite well in Linux, and ok in Windows. The administration is web-based and is built upon CakePHP. The db is currently postgres, but I've been planning to switch it to MySQL in the next version ( it's quite trivial for the web admin and only slightly worse for the client ). I see no reason we could not add a LibKi-compatible administration panel to Koha, along with a reservation system. I guess what I'm getting at is a kiosk system that can function independently, or as a Koha module. Let me know if this comes even close to what you were interested in. Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Westheimer, Brook <Brook.Westheimer@cincinnatilibrary.org> wrote:
Hi-
I wanted to introduce myself and put something out there. I've been lurking for a minute and learning more about Koha. I found Koha when researching open source options for computer reservation and printing systems since I work with this type of software the most. Has anyone ever proposed building reservation software? I would love to contribute this element… It's such a simple piece of software and there's so much that can be improved on. I work more on the user end of technology, but I also know HTML/CSS/PHP and am learning Perl and mySQL.
Best—
Brook Westheimer
LSA TechCenter Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County 513-369-6918 brook.westheimer@cincinnatilibrary.org
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