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@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Joshua Ferraro
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:04 AM
To: Rick Welykochy
Cc: koha@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@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.
Cheers,
--
Joshua
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