[Koha] Koha] KohaCon 15 Was Awesome

[Massoud Alshareef]

AlayKum Assalam Jesse. Thank you "Shukran" for your email.

You are correct. We have implemented Arabic Koha 3.18 here (
http://maktabat.mu.edu.sa/) at Majmaa University, which is about 150km
north of Riyadh.

My company, KnowledgeWare Technologies, is in charge of tthe ranslating
task of Koha releases to Arabic. Here is a demo site of Arabic Koha
integrated with EBSCO EDS: http://arkoha.maktabat-online.net/ .

We have also localized VuFind 2.5 to Arabic, which is a very powerful a
discovery portal that provides metasearch or federated search to all sorts
of data sources, including Koha ILS, DSpace IR, EDS/Summon eJournals as is
demonstrated here: VuFind: http://arkoha.maktabat-online.net/vufind2/

I too did not make it to KohaCon15 this year in Nigeria. I was just
responding to Mr. Brooke's nice email missing to see someone attending the
conference from the Middle East, which is unfortunate for us.

Thanks,
Massoud M. AlShareef,
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Jesse Lambertson <jlambertson at sqcc.org>
wrote:

> AsSalam Alay Kum Massoud al-Shareef..
>
> I was unable to make Kohacon this year, but your company did this great
> instance of Koha, correct? http://maktabat.mu.edu.sa/
>
> It looks great.
>
> Just wanted to share. Glad you had a good time. Maybe I will be able to
> make it next year...
>
> Shukran,
>
> Jesse
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Massoud Alshareef <massoud at kwareict.com>
> wrote:
>
>> AsSalam Alay Kum Mr. Brooke,
>>
>> In behalf of all of us in the Arabic Koha Community, I would like to thank
>> you for looking forward to meet some of us personally during KohaCon 15
>> which was held in Nigeria this year. Apparently we have missed a lot by
>> not
>> not attending this great gathering and seeing your beautiful cities, Lagos
>> and Ibadan. I am sure the reason behind some of us not being there at this
>> conference is because of the lack of information on our part about your
>> save and beautiful country.
>>
>> I wish if possible to read more about this great Academic conference, and
>> share with us some of the papers presented during KohaCon15 in Nigeria.
>>
>> We look forward to meet you during the coming Koha conferences/ meetings,
>> and to know you in person.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Massoud M. AlShareef,
>>
>> > Message: 3
>> > Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 18:34:23 +0000 (UTC)
>> > From: BWS Johnson <abesottedphoenix at yahoo.com>
>> > To: Koha List <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
>> > Subject: [Koha] KohaCon 15 Was Awesome
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>> > Salvete!
>> >
>> >     I would like to publicly thank our KohaCon15 hosts. It was magical
>> > being part of a highly academic Conference in the midst of the manicured
>> > tropical setting at IITA. There were meaty discussions about the future
>> of
>> > the Community in Nigeria, and I was very happy to be allowed to listen
>> to
>> > the discussion at hand. All of the participants shared keen insights,
>> and
>> > it was easily one of my favourite Conferences. I only wish that some of
>> our
>> > friends from the Middle East had attended; I was looking forward to
>> meeting
>> > them in person.
>> >
>> >
>> >     For those that decided against going due to security reasons, I
>> would
>> > say that Lagos was similar in nature to Philadelphia in terms of
>> character.
>> > Ibadan was close to Urbana-Champaign, though the former boasts a much
>> > larger population than the latter. Don't let safety stop you from
>> visiting
>> > in future. If you need tips on how to get your Visa from the States,
>> feel
>> > free to contact me off list.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Brooke
>> >
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