[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Katrin]

I like the idea of the geo coordinates - If people agree I can offer to 
try and add the code on the Koha site, but would need help for the Hea bits.

Katrin

On 13.12.2016 22:24, Mike D. wrote:
> 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>
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> 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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