Re: [Koha] Google Summer of Koha - thought on 1 idea you posted
Friday, March 16, 2007 16:03 CDT Hi, Josh, et al. at LibLime, Congratulations on your selection as mentor for the Google Summer of Code program! It looks to be an amazing thing. I don't know if this'll be useful for you folks or not, but here goes anyway ... I noticed in your list of ideas the following -- Improve Koha Cataloging Interface Have had some customer feedback that theyd like to see a more "traditional" cataloging interface; best way I can describe this is a line interface like you would expect in a text editor vs the tabularized interface we currently have. Could it be just a big <textarea> ? -- and I have been wondering for a while if what Terry Reese had accomplished with MARCEdit's text-based editor might somehow be "incorporated"/"integrated" into Koha. I know from off listserv communication that at least one person running Koha on linux was able to use MARCEdit, which is ostensibly Windows-based, successfully (i.e. without trouble). Is that perhaps a sign that the underlying code might be 'friendly' and easy to convert or integrate? I don't understand the nature (or limitations) of the mentorship arrangement LibLime is undertaking, but perhaps it would be possible to contact Terry Reese and see if there were any possibility of code sharing for development. He offers MARCEdit cost free to the library community already so it would seem that he already believes in the benevolence that underlies open source. Plus there is the statement on re-distribution and integration of MARCEdit on his page at URL <http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/help.html> that would seem to bode well. Perhaps if the code from MARCEdit could be adapted/integrated somehow that would save your student protegés programmers some time and effort and make a better MARC editor within Koha a step closer. Just a thought anyway. Good luck to all involved in your summer program! I am sure whatever projects are accomplished will be golden! Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada ============================================================ From: "Joshua M. Ferraro" <jmf@liblime.com> Date: 2007/03/16 Fri PM 01:28:13 CDT To: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>, koha-devel <koha-devel@nongnu.org> Subject: [Koha] Google Summer of Koha Hi all, Just a heads up to the Koha community that LibLime was selected as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code program. We've got a few ideas defined already, but are certainly open to additional suggestions: http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=googlesummerofcodeideas So if you've got a neat koha-related project that's doable in a three month period by a student or group of students, let us know. And of course, if you happen to be a student, we'd love to have you involved. You can select from one of the ideas above, or come up with something completely new ... More info about the program and the application process is available at the Google Summer of Code site: http://code.google.com/soc The deadline is fast approaching so get those applications in. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ============================================================
----- "Steven F. Baljkas" <baljkas@mts.net> wrote:
Friday, March 16, 2007 16:03 CDT
Hi, Josh, et al. at LibLime,
Congratulations on your selection as mentor for the Google Summer of Code program! It looks to be an amazing thing. Thanks, we're pretty excited, as it turns out, 2/3 of applications weren't accepted.
I don't know if this'll be useful for you folks or not, but here goes anyway ...
I noticed in your list of ideas the following --
Improve Koha Cataloging Interface Have had some customer feedback that theyd like to see a more "traditional" cataloging interface; best way I can describe this is a line interface like you would expect in a text editor vs the tabularized interface we currently have.
Could it be just a big <textarea> ?
-- and I have been wondering for a while if what Terry Reese had accomplished with MARCEdit's text-based editor might somehow be "incorporated"/"integrated" into Koha. Definitely something we've thought of, and in fact, I've spoken to Terry about this. We're in the middle of defining what would be involved in making MARCEdit capable of 'pushing' updates to Koha. I think it's a fantastic idea to add this to the list of Google Ideas. I'll write an email to Terry and add it to our list, thanks again for the idea!
Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
On 3/16/07, Steven F. Baljkas <baljkas@mts.net> wrote:
-- and I have been wondering for a while if what Terry Reese had accomplished with MARCEdit's text-based editor might somehow be "incorporated"/"integrated" into Koha.
In my experience, in order to run MARCEdit in Linux you need to use Mono (and even then I found it not stable). Some folks have reservations about using Mono because Microsoft may use any patents on C# against Mono and Linux, though after the patent agreement between Microsoft and Novell (where the lead developer of Mono works), Novell customers are protected. I don't know where to stand on the Mono controversy, but it's something to consider. I would not like to see a Mono app be the main MARC editor for Koha, though I'd be happy if other folks had it as an option, because it is a really good MARC editor. --Jason
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