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Van,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't worked with Moodle, but some of our
libraries have. What we currently have for the Koha Community is:<br>
<ul>
<li>A website</li>
<li>Listserv</li>
<li>FaceBook presence</li>
<li>bit of a presence on the Koha dev wiki<br>
</li>
</ul>
What the users want is:<br>
<ul>
<li>a place for online meetings</li>
<ul>
<li>a simple solution would be an IRC channel and a few of the Koha
developers suggested the Koha IRC. This would be perfect, but I'm not
sure how many regular staff librarians would be comfortable with this.
We could give it a try. What do you think?</li>
</ul>
<li>updates of any user group meetings</li>
<li>a user group that is not company sponsored (at the moment that
would be LibLime)</li>
<li>a set of bylaws and an actual non-profit group established</li>
</ul>
Have said all of this, the biggest issue is that staff librarians (i.e.
non-technical librarians want to participate in the Koha User Group
(KUDOS)). And to have them participate sort of requires that all the
components of the the user group is confined in one area. So, that's
the quandry. <br>
<br>
With moodle, everyone can have a login, it has the chat capability,
including archiving. Documentation archiving. It would also provide a
method for tutorials and providing real-time help to anyone who wants
it. This could work. I can try setting up a Moodle instance sometime
in the next week. I'll let you know when I've completed it. Would you
be willing to help test?<br>
<br>
Other stuff: <br>
I believe there may be a meeting at PLA in Minneapolis. Are you coming
to PLA? If so, there may be an opportunity to be involved in the
establishment of the user group bylaws and non-profit group. I'm not
organizing this one due to other commitments.<br>
<br>
Additionally, I am on the planning committee for the Midwest Technology
Conference that will be held in May/June timeframe. Part of that track
could include setting up user groups and how they help the OSS
community. I don't think this has been done.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Deb<br>
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might be a very reasonable option. I have had some
experience with this, and it seems to work well. The difficulty would
be administrating
it – this takes time. I cannot recall, however, how well their chat
application
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being said, it would be an appropriate partnership given
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Deb Bergeron
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:bergeron@macalester.edu">mailto:bergeron@macalester.edu</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 03, 2008 5:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kudos-list@ccfls.org">kudos-list@ccfls.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KUDOS] Google Talk via FaceBook for KUDOS meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As many of you know, I've been looking for a way
to have
online KUDOS chat meetings via FaceBook.<br>
<br>
Well, we tried Google Talk in the FaceBook application. It's very
cumbersome
and will not work for online chat meetings. However, we could utilize
Google
Talk via Google. Google Talk is great--you can have either a chat with
one
person or a group. How's it work?<br>
<br>
All you need to do is:<br>
a. Have a google acct. <br>
b. Have an email acct.<br>
<br>
Then, if any of us wants to talk/chat realtime we can hook up via
Google Talk.<br>
<br>
What do you think? <br>
<br>
Other options are:<br>
a. building a moodle with chat function. (Moodle has a chat function
built in.)<br>
b. email via the Koha list or FaceBook<br>
c. meet in person<br>
d. other ideas?<br>
<br>
Deb<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://clic.edu">CLIC Consortium</a><br>
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