Hi Mark, I am one of the library staff who helped define what kind of 'things' we would like koha to do, and I use koha everyday. Regarding a wishlist of stuff to do next, I am personally keen to see a user-friendly (for the non-programmer, average, garden variety librarian) report writer facility on koha. Currently we have a perfectly good 'longhand' method. We tell Chris (our programmer) what we want, he writes a report which he emails us, we copy it into urbansql, run the report, export it to excel then manipulate the results using all excels features. Works fine - but would be heaps better if we could write the reports ourselves. We are pretty excited by koha, but being so close to the coal face it is easy to take for granted what we are achieving. This makes it especially neat having feedback from other people. Thanks. reagards - Jo.. Really great you are Mark Tearle wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
HI Mark - thank you and welcome - and too everyone else too.
Glad to be here.
We've been quite overwhelmed by the positive feedback and enthusiasim for Koha, and are really excited about the possibilities that syncing up with other systems offers.
Koha is quite unique so far : a) it's actually in use b) it's not daunting to developer or the lay user - as Avanti is with it's development in Java or pytheas with it's concentration on metadata. c) built on top of an SQL database (okay, maybe not that unique) but it means the backend can remain relatively stable in relation to the amount of work going on elsewhere in the code.
Unfortunatly Chris our mainprogrammer is away on bereavement leave at the moment, so there will be a short halt in proceedings for a week or so - but I'm sure he'll be keen to touch base once he gets back.
Cheers Rachel
Nod, I'll fire a few questions off anyhow:
1) Is there an anonymous CVS repository setup for Koha?
2) Is there a ROADMAP style document explaining the design so far? Looking at Koha's table layout and my abandoned projects I notice many similarities and a couple of differences.
3) How do you see Koha evolving?
4) Is there a feature/wish list for Koha?
There are undoubtedly more, but that's a start.
Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mark@tearle.com
Stone: Let's stick to established procedures. -- The Andromeda Leavitt: Establishment gonna fall down and go boom. Strain (1971)
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