[Koha] How many libraries currently run Koha?

[WANG, Ching-Hsien]

If there is a web site that allows self registration, and display the registered site names, that may be a way to handle this.

 

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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Joshua Ferraro
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:04 AM
To: Rick Welykochy
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz; Paul POULAIN
Subject: Re: [Koha] How many libraries currenty run Koha?

 

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:

> Paul POULAIN wrote:

>> Nicole Engard a écrit :

>> 

>>> I don't think there will ever be an official count since there are

>>> people all over the world installing it themselves and never

>>> communicating on the list or talking to support vendors.  But there is a

>>> list on Lib-Web-Cats of libraries using Koha that LibLime tries to keep

>>> as up to date as possible: http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/

>> 

>> wow... lists only a few french libraries, there are at least 50 in fact

>> (BibLibre clients) + some I don't know

> 

> 

> Many open source products call back to base to check for updates,

> register, etc.

> 

> Koha could optionally do the same when it is fired up. The option

> to do so could be determined at installation time, so that the

> library is clearly informed that they can optionally call back to base

> for statistics gatehring purposes.

Yea, that would certainly tell us how many installations of Koha there had

been during a given period, but not how many systems are up and

running in production.

 

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