[Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Bob Birchall]

HI Mark,
Welcome to the Koha community.

I've heard that git installs are not recommended as the production 
environment (though fine of course for your current exploration). The 
recommended method to install Koha in production environments is from 
Debian packages.  There is info on the wiki: 
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian

Again welcome.  Koha is awesome.  I hope it works out for your library.

Regards,
Bob Birchall
Calyx

On 29/08/16 08:21, Mark Alexander wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a retired software geek, now living in a small town in Vermont
> after many years in Silicon Valley.  I've been using Linux on my own
> computers for 20 years, and have hacked on everything from microkernels
> in assembly language to web apps in Ruby on Rails.
>
> I also spent a year in NZ as a child and still consider it as my first
> home, and miss it very much, though I've not been back since.  It's
> cool to see such great open source software originating from my old
> homeland.
>
> Our town library currently uses proprietary software from Mandarin,
> but I've been investigating what it would take to convert to Koha.
> Many libraries here in Vermont are in a consortium that is using Koha
> hosted by a commercial vendor.  But the consortium is closed to
> new members.
>
> So to see what it would take for us to build our own Koha installation
> from scratch, I installed 16.05 (using git) in an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual
> machine and have started to play around with it.  I've exported our
> catalog (about 22K items) from Mandarin into a MARC dump.  Now I'm
> figuring out what I need to do to import these records and correctly
> set things like the item call number and item type.  I may ask some
> questions later if I get stuck.
>
> --Mark
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