Van, Thanks for the feedback. I haven't worked with Moodle, but some of our libraries have. What we currently have for the Koha Community is: * A website * Listserv * FaceBook presence * bit of a presence on the Koha dev wiki What the users want is: * a place for online meetings o a simple solution would be an IRC channel and a few of the Koha developers suggested the Koha IRC. This would be perfect, but I'm not sure how many regular staff librarians would be comfortable with this. We could give it a try. What do you think? * updates of any user group meetings * a user group that is not company sponsored (at the moment that would be LibLime) * a set of bylaws and an actual non-profit group established Have said all of this, the biggest issue is that staff librarians (i.e. non-technical librarians want to participate in the Koha User Group (KUDOS)). And to have them participate sort of requires that all the components of the the user group is confined in one area. So, that's the quandry. With moodle, everyone can have a login, it has the chat capability, including archiving. Documentation archiving. It would also provide a method for tutorials and providing real-time help to anyone who wants it. This could work. I can try setting up a Moodle instance sometime in the next week. I'll let you know when I've completed it. Would you be willing to help test? Other stuff: I believe there may be a meeting at PLA in Minneapolis. Are you coming to PLA? If so, there may be an opportunity to be involved in the establishment of the user group bylaws and non-profit group. I'm not organizing this one due to other commitments. Additionally, I am on the planning committee for the Midwest Technology Conference that will be held in May/June timeframe. Part of that track could include setting up user groups and how they help the OSS community. I don't think this has been done. Thanks, Deb Van Carpenter wrote:
Moodle might be a very reasonable option. I have had some experience with this, and it seems to work well. The difficulty would be administrating it -- this takes time. I cannot recall, however, how well their chat application works.
That being said, it would be an appropriate partnership given that Moodle is to educational software what Koha is to library software. Moodle would also enable a document repository and forum for ongoing conversation. It would establish a Koha community.
Van
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*From:* Deb Bergeron [mailto:bergeron@macalester.edu] *Sent:* Sunday, February 03, 2008 5:48 PM *To:* koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; kudos-list@ccfls.org *Subject:* [KUDOS] Google Talk via FaceBook for KUDOS meetings
As many of you know, I've been looking for a way to have online KUDOS chat meetings via FaceBook.
Well, we tried Google Talk in the FaceBook application. It's very cumbersome and will not work for online chat meetings. However, we could utilize Google Talk via Google. Google Talk is great--you can have either a chat with one person or a group. How's it work?
All you need to do is: a. Have a google acct. b. Have an email acct.
Then, if any of us wants to talk/chat realtime we can hook up via Google Talk.
What do you think?
Other options are: a. building a moodle with chat function. (Moodle has a chat function built in.) b. email via the Koha list or FaceBook c. meet in person d. other ideas?
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