[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

Wed Dec 14 11:25:22 NZDT 2016

It already is Paul.

It's always been and always will be an entirely voluntarily opt in process.

Nothing about that is changing. Just adding some information about how the data is collected and stored. So that people can opt in with more information available.

So now that's out of the way, back to the discussion of how to improve it. :)

Chris

On 14 December 2016 10:53:03 AM NZDT, Paul A <paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
>At 09:24 PM 12/13/2016 +0000, Mike D. wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I vote for Hea, because is easy way to have actual data from libraies 
>>/.../ clear delclaration about data usage license and privacy /.../
>Hea is 
>>best way to collect data from Koha instalation, easy and fast.
>
>[limited to Canada] We have a lawyer on our board, who suggests that 
>libraries cannot verify the Koha code (technically, in detail),
>therefore 
>if there is a breach of privacy, Koha Community would be responsible.
>This 
>to me is *NOT* a good thing -- I certainly would not want the community
>to 
>be under any threat.
>
>Collecting data, in today's world, happens regularly, legally and 
>illegally; there is a fine line between "maybe OK" and "not completely 
>bulletproof"; consent is one thing, but just clicking "OK" for sysprefs
>
>during an install is wide open to challenges.
>
>I would really suggest that if Hea is the way the community feels it
>should 
>go, that this becomes a very conscious, up-front "add-on" voluntary
>service 
>with "informed consent" well defined. [/limited to Canada]
>
>Best -- Paul
>
>
>>Take care
>>
>>Mike.
>>
>>Ãºt 13. 12. 2016 v 18:52 odesÃlatel 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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>>
>>Message: 1
>>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
>>Message-ID:
>>         <2748A6B7-2138-485D-8F4D-91ADDC66EA6E at bywatersolutions.com>
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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 arenât 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 donât 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 donât code, otherwise we
>are
>>playing into the misconception that open source is for developers
>only.
>>
>>Respectfully,
>>
>>-Nate
>>
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