[Koha] How to know libraries that use Koha?

[Olugbenga Adara]

Hello Daniel,


Not all Koha installations are done or used online. We still would not know the exact number of installations.

 
Olugbenga Adara


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----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel Berthereau <Daniel.koha at Berthereau.net>
> To: "Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 7:07 AM
> Subject: [Koha] How to know libraries that use Koha?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It may be interesting to know the number of libraries that use Koha in a
> country, in particular to defend collective interests of users of Koha.
> But, because Koha is a (really free and really good) open source
> project, it can be difficult to know them. There is local or national
> communities, but no one is forced to enroll, fortunately.
> 
> Two non-exclusive possibilities can be used to know that, but it implies
> an intervention of koha-community.org.
> - The first one is declarative: during Koha installation or later, it
> can be suggested to the librarian to inform koha-community.org via a
> form in Koha.
> - The second is automatic: add a little script in Koha (five to ten
> lines) that check the current version number of the release, so
> koha-community.org can check and geolocalize logs and build a map of all
> implantations in the world. It can be used to inform librarians too that
> its Koha installation needs update or upgrade, in particular when there
> are security alerts. In fact, this is a mechanism used by many CMS. For
> example, on the homepage of http://drupal.org, we can know the number of
> installations in the world and their location. It uses simply a
> mechanism that checks the current version and security alerts via a
> little file containing last release numbers on the central server.
> 
> Is there a project to implement such things?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Daniel Berthereau
> 
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