[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the World

[Paul A]

At 06:10 PM 12/13/2016 +0100, Mirko Tietgen wrote:
>Hi.
>
>it needs privacy information. What is anonymized, where and when?
>Who has access to non-anonymised data (if anyone)?

I'm not a lawyer, but this might well fall foul of Canada's PIPEDA.

P.


>It needs an imprint/statement of responsibility on the website. Who
>is responsible for gathering and processing the data, and for
>anonymizing it? Where is the data stored?
>
>It needs a license. Saying it is open data does not make it open, I
>can't find a license except for the hea code.
>
>It needs actual data to download, or it is not open data but some
>graphs someone somewhere renders with data they pile up secretly.
>
>It needs information about why a gazillion sysprefs are gathered, be
>that anonymized or not, and probably an option to turn that off.
>
>Just a pile of German 2€cents with basic questions nobody is going
>to ask, but just not turn on the data collection. I'm asking it so
>at some point I might be able to recommend turning it on, which so
>far I don't, because I doubt it is compatible to German data privacy
>laws.
>
>-- Mirko
>
>PS: Yes for the open vs proprietary part. I just don't think we are
>there yet.
>
>
>
>
>Chris Cormack schrieb am 13.12.2016
> > I agree, we could make the installer/upgrade prompt them to fill them 
> in also.
> >
> > And then it's just building an interface, if we can get JSON from Hea 
> then that part is easy. It then needs no work from users except to fill 
> in the sysprefs.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > On 14 December 2016 5:31:01 AM NZDT, Jonathan Druart 
> <jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:
> >> The easiest way in my opinion would be to improve Hea, we already have
> >> Koha
> >> instances sending their data.
> >> It is very easy for libraries to register as they just need to fill
> >> some
> >> sysprefs in.
> >>
> >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 at 17:04 Nathan Curulla <nate at bywatersolutions.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Everyone,
> >>>
> >>> I hear what you are all saying about this and agree that it would be
> >>> better to roll our own, but here is the thing: Hea is not user
> >> friendly at
> >>> all and the Wiki is not a good marketing tool because it is not
> >> pretty (no
> >>> offense on either of these). If you really want to market Koha you
> >> need to
> >>> look at these things from the eyes of a non-developer, non-tech
> >> oriented
> >>> librarian. If you do that you will see that these two tools are not
> >>> optimal, especially in comparison to something that larger companies
> >> that
> >>> Koha competes with are going to put out.
> >>>
> >>> It is good to hear that you want to clean things up and re-invent the
> >>> wheel, but actually doing that in a reasonable amount of time in a
> >>> competitive environment is another thing. If someone has a concrete
> >>> proposal for an attractive, sortable, searchable, easy to submit to
> >> option
> >>> on the website for libraries to put information in than I think that
> >> would
> >>> be great and I will do everything to help that I can, but who is
> >> going to
> >>> do it and when? With products like Folio coming Koha needs to be
> >> front and
> >>> center in the open source library world and showing the world how
> >> many
> >>> people use it is a no brainer (and should be easy) in terms of ways
> >> to do
> >>> just that.
> >>>
> >>> So the options are that someone volunteers to create this interface
> >>> (ByWater staff can help with this if given the access and permission,
> >> but
> >>> we aren’t going to do it alone) with a completion target of end of
> >> Feb.
> >>> 2017, or we link out to a third party site that already has the
> >> content. If
> >>> we don’t hear from anyone about the former we are going to go with
> >> the
> >>> latter. We need to move on this kind of stuff soon or Koha will be
> >> left in
> >>> the dust in the coming emergence of open source in the library world.
> >> We
> >>> need to become more accessible to those who don’t code, otherwise we
> >> are
> >>> playing into the misconception that open source is for developers
> >> only.
> >>>
> >>> Respectfully,
> >>>
> >>> -Nate
> >>>
> >>>> Nathan A. Curulla
> >>>> Owner, CRO
> >>>> ByWater Solutions
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