Testing Updates in Koha

The majority of today was spent reviewing and testing the 60 or so updates that LibLime recently applied to our TEST server.  Liz had already spent 6 hours synching our templates, so we could do the additional 6 hours of testing today with Diana and Mickey.  Needless to say, I’m beat.
Of those 60, we pulled [...]

Kansas Prairie Fires

While everyone in Plano worked to fix bugs and push patches, I went to Manhattan for the day to pick up my dog and visit family near Chapman.  On the way home, my brother and I found this awesome controlled burn at I-70 and K-177, 12 miles south of Manhattan.  Video to follow, once I’m [...]

Sponsorship Discussion

Unrecorded sponsorship discussion

Wiki and Koha Users list
Even the small projects should be posted somewhere so we can see all the projects – share among ourselves before we tell the vendor.
Use IRC to get status reports on where a development is in the process
Libraries, as sponsors, should add their sponsorships to a joint list, along with [...]

KohaCon09 and Koha 3.2 and Beyond

Koha 3.2 – What’s in it? – Galen and Paul

New acquisitions module
Holdings support
Circ improvements – configure policy to nth degree!  Woo hoo.
Improve stability
RFCs – Request for Comments – proposals, ideas, statement saying what we want in terms of functionality

programmers, libraries, groups, etc.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if Koha had a module to dispatch the library policy [...]

KohaCon09 Day 2

Poor Chris is voice-less.  Be kind to him and use sign language.
Under the Hood with MySQL with Joe Atzberger

Keeping kohasructure.sql in synch with mysql/updatedatabase.pl defines your Koha version (version number)
We need read only access (command line) to our database – so we can see ALL 125 tables and how they relate!
Tools – phpMyAdmin, MySQL Admin [...]

Reflect

Having spent time with the ‘godfathers’ of Koha – Paul and Chris – I feel this strong desire to protect and preserve and promote the community they helped build over the last 10 years.  I’m excited that NExpresslibrary.org adds to the community in a way and think we should probably be posting our materials to [...]

KohaCon09 Day 1 Afternoon

MySQL Reports in Koha with Nicole Engard
http://tinyurl.com/kohadbstructure and http://dev.mysql.com/doc/
Her Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/nengard/sql-reports-in-koha – with some statements I will be exploring.
I’ll be reviewing her presentation at a later time when I can play and learn and concentrate better.
Empowering Your Organization – Lori Bowen Ayre

I mentioned our last Users Group meeting and the Vision and Values Statements (pdf)
OSLS [...]

KohaCon09 Day 1

As this is my blog and I can do what I want with it, I’m using it for note taking.
Also follow the action at: http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/kohacon-09 (or search Twitter for kohacon09)

Having met Chris and Paul last night, I’m excited to hear them talk about the history of Koha, born 1999.  Famous words, “It’s just a database, [...]

KohaCon in Plano TX

On our way to KohaCon in Plano.  Liz set up a Cover It Live feed > http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/kohacon-09/
Join the conversation (#kohacon09), ask questions, or just be a vouyer.
I’m looking forward to the thunderstorms and reading some smut on the airplane.

Post-Conference

Conference this year reminded me of the Unconference, especially with the flurry of tweet-notes, blogs, IM chats and flip videos posted to Facebook.  Facebook, especially, has impacted Conference, for example when Christie pulled me aside and said, “I feel like I just saw you yesterday … on Facebook, so how’s your cold?”  At another time, [...]