Irma et al, This is a world-wide open meeting. It is meant to get a dialog going for anyone interested in or using Koha. Please join us! Deb Irma wrote:

Hello Deb,

Congratulations on your initiative in getting this KUDOS dialog underway.

I am in Sydney (Australia) and have been a Koha installer and champion even before LibLime came into existence. I am a virtual librarian (consulting and contracting) and with IT support, we helped our first Koha client in 2003 (a corporate library with 10 offices around Australia and New Zealand), discover the benefits of this great OS ILS. I now have a few more such clients. You will find me and my company on the "Pay for support" page on www.koha.org <http://www.koha.org>.

I hope you don't mind me introducing myself.

I would like to check with you that I can be included in the IRC meetings starting with the inaugural one on Thursday Feb 14, 1008 @ 3pm EST.

Although I am not in the US, how would you feel about me meeting you all on IRC?

With my very best wishes and looking forward to your reply.

Irma

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*From:* koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] *On Behalf Of *Deb Bergeron *Sent:* 13 February 2008 10:09 *To:* koha@lists.katipo.co.nz *Subject:* [Koha] KUDOS IRC Meeting, Thursday Feb 14, 2008 @ 3pm EST

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Based on the feedback from those of you who responded, Thursday February 14 at 3pm EST works best for most of you. So, let's do it!

Before we meet, a few pieces of information:

1. There is NO agenda really. As I've stated previously, many people who couldn't attend the last KUDOS meeting at ALAMW08 requested a venue for online real-time meetings. AND, we've got a little momentum going, so let's let it roll. Additionally, I believe John Brice is putting together a KUDOS meeting at PLA in Minneapolis. [I planned to help him and wrote up a plan, but as soon as I signed on I was given a huge honkin' project (Migrate a site into Drupal--didn't know anything about Drupal--eek!) and couldn't help organize the meeting , but plan to attend. Additionally, I live in Minneapolis, so if any of you plan to attend PLA and want info, let me know. 2. I do have one quasi-agenda item: FaceBook. If you haven't joined the KUDOS FaceBook Group, you may want to check it out. 3. Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote the following directions for those of us new to IRC. Please read them, if you will, and follow her lead.

* For those of you who are going to join the meeting who haven't used IRC before a few tips that might help...

You can of course use the cig off the Koha site, but dedicated software is generally going to be better, more robust and less likely to crash on you just when it all gets interesting.

We have people who use vIRC, mIRC and xChat (and no doubt others) so feel free to ask for help on list with your setup.

I'd recommend getting your irc software setup and have a bit of a practice before the actual meeting. With a bit of IRC software you can set it to log the meeting so that even if you're going to miss the start of the end you can read up on it later.

The default "readback" in IRC clients is generally 500 or so lines, I set mine to 5000 so that I can read back on a day/night of chat if I'm in the mood.

4. See you all on the IRC, Thursday, Feb 14 @ 3pm EST. Let's help Koha and LibLime grow, prosper, and do good work! :-)

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,

Deb

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-- Deb Bergeron <mailto:bergeron@macalester.edu> System Admin: User Support CLIC Consortium <http://clic.edu> 1619 Dayton Avenue, Suite 204A Saint Paul, MN 55104 O:*651.644.3878* C:*651.487.7609* F:651.644.6258