[Koha] Greetings.

[Pat Eyler]

Let me second Stephen on this.  Viktor's news is simply fantastic!  I hope
that other groups might see the value of this kind of investment in Koha
(and OSS for libraries in general) and continue the trend.

-pate

Pat Eyler
Kaitiaki/manager               migrant Linux sys admin
the Koha project               ruby, shell, and perl geek
http://www.koha.org            http://pate.eylerfamily.org

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Stephen Hedges wrote:

> Wow, Viktor!  Congratulations!!
>
> Stephen Hedges
> Nelsonville Public Library
>
> > Greeting!
> >
> > It has taken place in a short time a lot.
> >
> > I was some time ago in the seminar of open
> > software, in which, with
> > lectures on the use of open software in our
> > monastery and the future
> > development in regard to them.
> >
> > In my lecture I also processed the KOHA library
> > system.
> >
> > This lecture accomplished the surprising series
> > of events.
> >
> > This series of events culminated in the
> > announcement just received by me
> > that Education ministry of Finland  grants 11000
> > euros to the thorough
> > testing, examining and localisation of the KOHA
> > library system of the
> > assistance to Finnish language.
> >
> > During this project all material to be produced,
> > results and the
> > possible modifications are available freely
> > according to the principles
> > of open software.
> >
> > In the project there are the monastery of Valamo,
> > University of Oulu,
> > the city library of Vaasa and the city library of
> > Muurola involved.
> >
> > The following targets are examined and during the
> > project are developed.
> > 1. Localisation to Finnish language 2. Test
> > listing using the UTF8
> > character set in the library of the monastery of
> > Valamo. 3. Installation
> > to the testing to city library of Vaasa, 550000
> > volumes and necessary
> > conversion programs. 4. Cooperation with other
> > library systems.
> >
> > --
> > Monk Viktor
> > Valamo monastery
> > http://www.valamo.fi
> >
> >
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