[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Mike D.]

Hi,
I vote for Hea, because is easy way to have actual data from libraies. I
agree with Marko about clear delclaration about data usage license and
privacy. Maybe we can discuss about add GPS coordinates into Hea sysprefs.
We'll can generate great maps.
Hea is best way to collect data from Koha instalation, easy and fast.

Take care

Mike.

út 13. 12. 2016 v 18:52 odesílatel BOUIS Sonia <sonia.bouis at univ-lyon3.fr>
napsal:

Hi,
I maybe missed the action, but I pretty agree with Nate. I'm for the
improvement of Hea, and I hope that we can have better results with it in
few time.
For the moment, I think we need to have user friendly interface for people
who doesn't really know koha. Especially if we want to do some marketing on
Koha.
Old Koha version libraries are on the Marshall Breeding list but they will
not be in hea while they don't update their versions and I'm not sure they
will do it really soon.
In France, KohaLa association have begun a google map to show french
speaking users of Koha. We could surely use Marshal Breeding's map.
As a librarian, I can see colleagues that can find reassuring to see on the
map that there's a lot of libraries using Koha and some of them at few
kilometers.

So, I'm totally to improve hea, but I think we should use the Marshall
Breeding list meanwhile.

Cheers,
Sonia

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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:19:01 -0500
From: Nathan Curulla <nate at bywatersolutions.com>
To: Koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word
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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

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