Re: [Koha] Subject: Contributing- computer reservation?
Brook Westheimer wrote: RE: Subject: [Koha] Contributing- computer reservation? Message: 5 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:09:38 -0500 From: "Westheimer, Brook" <Brook.Westheimer@cincinnatilibrary.org> Subject: [Koha] Contributing- computer reservation? To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Message-ID: <6C507EF21BE92D40A93EF2E3452C256AC33B4E@EXVSCL1.PLCH.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Brook, Public computer reservation and print control software is a huge need for our group of libraries. If that were developed for the Koha environment that would be an important contribution. I believe there's some reservation code written by someone for v. 2.2 but not 3.0. Jim ----------------------------------------------------------- Jim Minges email: jminges@nekls.org Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 WEst 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785.838.4090 FAX: 785.838.3989 http://www.nekls.org/ On Jan 30, 2009, at 3:24 PM, koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote:
Subject: [Koha] Contributing- computer reservation?
I recently became aware of Pre-Book from Userful: http://userful.com/products/pre-book It's open source and I'm wondering if anyone is using it with Koha? I haven't seen it in action yet. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:45 PM, jminges <jminges@nekls.org> wrote:
Brook Westheimer wrote: RE: Subject: [Koha] Contributing- computer reservation?
Message: 5 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:09:38 -0500 From: "Westheimer, Brook" <Brook.Westheimer@cincinnatilibrary.org> Subject: [Koha] Contributing- computer reservation? To: <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Message-ID: <6C507EF21BE92D40A93EF2E3452C256AC33B4E@EXVSCL1.PLCH.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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
Brook, Public computer reservation and print control software is a huge need for our group of libraries. If that were developed for the Koha environment that would be an important contribution. I believe there's some reservation code written by someone for v. 2.2 but not 3.0. Jim ----------------------------------------------------------- Jim Minges email: jminges@nekls.org Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 WEst 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785.838.4090 FAX: 785.838.3989 http://www.nekls.org/
On Jan 30, 2009, at 3:24 PM, koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote:
Subject: [Koha] Contributing- computer reservation?
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Nicole Engard a écrit :
I recently became aware of Pre-Book from Userful: http://userful.com/products/pre-book
It's open source and I'm wondering if anyone is using it with Koha? I haven't seen it in action yet.
we looked at this tool last week, and pls note that clicking on "free download" results in : http://userful.com/sorry :( also note the technical architecture seems strange : you must install the server part on a specific server (or virtual machine) : http://support.userful.com/wiki/index.php/Manuals/Pre-Book_Administrator_Gui... we (BibLibre) are investigating openkiosk (http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/) -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
Thanks Paul! I was curious why I hadn't heard more about it. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:21 AM, paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:
Nicole Engard a écrit :
I recently became aware of Pre-Book from Userful: http://userful.com/products/pre-book
It's open source and I'm wondering if anyone is using it with Koha? I haven't seen it in action yet.
we looked at this tool last week, and pls note that clicking on "free download" results in : http://userful.com/sorry :(
also note the technical architecture seems strange : you must install the server part on a specific server (or virtual machine) : http://support.userful.com/wiki/index.php/Manuals/Pre-Book_Administrator_Gui...
we (BibLibre) are investigating openkiosk (http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/)
-- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
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Okay - a look at this page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153260 shows that the last release was a year ago ... does anyone know of any activity on this project? I'm off to check out openkiosk. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Nicole Engard <nicole.engard@liblime.com> wrote:
Thanks Paul! I was curious why I hadn't heard more about it.
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Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:21 AM, paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:
Nicole Engard a écrit :
I recently became aware of Pre-Book from Userful: http://userful.com/products/pre-book
It's open source and I'm wondering if anyone is using it with Koha? I haven't seen it in action yet.
we looked at this tool last week, and pls note that clicking on "free download" results in : http://userful.com/sorry :(
also note the technical architecture seems strange : you must install the server part on a specific server (or virtual machine) : http://support.userful.com/wiki/index.php/Manuals/Pre-Book_Administrator_Gui...
we (BibLibre) are investigating openkiosk (http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/)
-- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
_______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
we (BibLibre) are investigating openkiosk (http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/)
I've worked with OpenKiosk, and I thought I'd let you know about my experiences, which was just over a year ago. First, the Windows client for OpenKiosk is not Open Source. It is compiled with a closed-source qt to windows api library. Despite the fact that the Windows client is closed source software, they continue to host the demo download for it on Sourceforge, which I believe is a violation of Sourceforge's terms of service. Second, OpenKiosk is essentially a one man band. At the time I was first working with it, the developer had decided to stop updating it. It appears that he is working on it again, but who knows if it will continue to be an active project. Third, it just didn't work will. There were a number of major bugs that made it impossible to use. The primary one being that when the counter hit 0, instead of logging off, it would give them thousands of minutes more! So I gave up on OpenKiosk. The second kiosk system I found was outkafe, which is a fork of the now dead zybacafe project. It actually worked correctly. It was written in an uncommon language ( I can't remember atm ), making changes very difficult, however it works by having the server and client communicate through a postgresql database. The first thing I did was rewrite the time counting daemon, which didn't work well. Second, I wrote a web-based front end to replace the admin program which wouldn't run well on our thin-clients for some reason. Then, when I wanted to change the client, I rewrote that to. At this point, I had no actual code from outkafe left, so I christened my trio as libki and put it on sourceforge. I'm still the sole developer, but I'm always looking for a few good men ; ) The best part is I've already integrated with Koha, so that part is done! However, it you decide to work with OpenKiosk, please let us know how it turns out. Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:21 AM, paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:
Nicole Engard a écrit :
I recently became aware of Pre-Book from Userful: http://userful.com/products/pre-book
It's open source and I'm wondering if anyone is using it with Koha? I haven't seen it in action yet.
we looked at this tool last week, and pls note that clicking on "free download" results in : http://userful.com/sorry :(
also note the technical architecture seems strange : you must install the server part on a specific server (or virtual machine) : http://support.userful.com/wiki/index.php/Manuals/Pre-Book_Administrator_Gui...
-- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
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http://www2.userful.com/free-trial The links on the above site work for me ATT. Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 x2303 ------------------------------------- paul POULAIN wrote:
Nicole Engard a écrit :
I recently became aware of Pre-Book from Userful: http://userful.com/products/pre-book
It's open source and I'm wondering if anyone is using it with Koha? I haven't seen it in action yet.
we looked at this tool last week, and pls note that clicking on "free download" results in : http://userful.com/sorry :(
also note the technical architecture seems strange : you must install the server part on a specific server (or virtual machine) : http://support.userful.com/wiki/index.php/Manuals/Pre-Book_Administrator_Gui...
we (BibLibre) are investigating openkiosk (http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/)
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