[Koha] FW: Number of Koha Libraries in the World

Wed Dec 14 10:27:57 NZDT 2016

Hi All,

Maybe it is just me but I see a lot of wasted energy in this discussion. There is a place for both open source and services like Marshall's. Why not just make a service endpoint API for both. Lets get on with the more important tasks of 16.11 compatibility with the most recent  releases of the various OS bases and SQL versions, lets update the documentation so that novices can follow a set of instructions and successfully, lets enhance the features of Koha. Let us not waste time on how to populate a map about where Koha libraries are found.

Koha is too great of a service for this.

Thanks 

--Dave (long time Koha user)
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the World

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 arenâ€™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 donâ€™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 donâ€™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
> >>>> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software
> >>>> Headquarters: Portland, OR.
> >>>> East Coast Office: Redding, CT.
> >>>> Phone/Fax # (888) 900-8944 xt 2
> >>>> Cell # (203) 685-7207
> >>>
> >>>> http://bywatersolutions.com <http://bywatersolutions.com/> 
> >>>> nate at bywatersolutions.com <mailto:nate at bywatersolutions.com>
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