Comments for lybrarian http://lybrarian.wordpress.com life, online Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on 2009 Teen Titles with Erin by edh http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/2009-teen-titles-with-erin/#comment-85 edh Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:50:08 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=298#comment-85 I couldn't have asked for a better audience! Come be my friend on Goodreads :) I did not get time to mention a great new development: Orca Book will begin releasing adult easy readers this spring! While they have exceptional hi/lo books for teens and tweens (Soundings, Currents, Sidestreets and Streetlights; many also available in Spanish) they will be expanding into the adult market. Raven Reads looks like a great addition to your collections for a more mature reader who needs some confidence-building titles or quick, bite-sized reads for proficient readers. Check it out here: http://orcabook.com/ravenreads/ Just looking for teen/youth titles? Try here: http://us.orcabook.com/ I couldn’t have asked for a better audience! Come be my friend on Goodreads :)

I did not get time to mention a great new development: Orca Book will begin releasing adult easy readers this spring! While they have exceptional hi/lo books for teens and tweens (Soundings, Currents, Sidestreets and Streetlights; many also available in Spanish) they will be expanding into the adult market. Raven Reads looks like a great addition to your collections for a more mature reader who needs some confidence-building titles or quick, bite-sized reads for proficient readers. Check it out here: http://orcabook.com/ravenreads/

Just looking for teen/youth titles? Try here: http://us.orcabook.com/

]]> Comment on Changes at LibLime by Liz Rea http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/changes-at-liblime/#comment-83 Liz Rea Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:42:02 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-83 But when? And how? As a tarball dumped in our lap or (better) from a public git repo? Of course it's better that the code going into koha gets tested first, but it still has to be integrated, something that becomes much harder as the branches diverge. Ask LL for a public repo. Ask for your features to be released to the community as soon as they are tested and approved. Community Koha will thank you. You will thank you, as developers on every continent look at your features and fix bugs. We can make this from a lose-lose into a win-win for all involved. We just need the right people to ask. But when? And how? As a tarball dumped in our lap or (better) from a public git repo?

Of course it’s better that the code going into koha gets tested first, but it still has to be integrated, something that becomes much harder as the branches diverge.

Ask LL for a public repo. Ask for your features to be released to the community as soon as they are tested and approved. Community Koha will thank you. You will thank you, as developers on every continent look at your features and fix bugs.

We can make this from a lose-lose into a win-win for all involved. We just need the right people to ask.

]]> Comment on Changes at LibLime by Liz http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/changes-at-liblime/#comment-82 Liz Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:16:23 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-82 While this is technically true, it's not practically true. Sure, liblime can dump a tarball on the community at any time, but the effort required to integrate the changes over the long term increases exponentially. This means, at some point it will become too hard to integrate the features, and a future RM may decide to exclude those features contributed by liblime. This has the unfortunate side effect of limiting innovation in both versions, though less so for the community version, since there are many more eyes, hands, and brains on that code. It's a global community of impassioned developers vs one relatively small company. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and an OSS project is no different. It takes a community to fulfill the promise of OSS, and currently it looks like we may have to go on without a once proud and integral member of our community. It's a real shame. I don't have any doubt, however, that another entity or group will step up and provide that leadership role. While this is technically true, it’s not practically true. Sure, liblime can dump a tarball on the community at any time, but the effort required to integrate the changes over the long term increases exponentially. This means, at some point it will become too hard to integrate the features, and a future RM may decide to exclude those features contributed by liblime. This has the unfortunate side effect of limiting innovation in both versions, though less so for the community version, since there are many more eyes, hands, and brains on that code. It’s a global community of impassioned developers vs one relatively small company.

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and an OSS project is no different. It takes a community to fulfill the promise of OSS, and currently it looks like we may have to go on without a once proud and integral member of our community. It’s a real shame. I don’t have any doubt, however, that another entity or group will step up and provide that leadership role.

]]> Comment on Changes at LibLime by Magnus Enger http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/changes-at-liblime/#comment-81 Magnus Enger Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:37:18 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-81 But there is a big question of how and when those improvements will be made available. See this post: http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2009/09/liblime-forks-koha.html and the comments here: http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2009/09/12/the-koha-community-retains-its-documentation-manager/ for some views on that. But there is a big question of how and when those improvements will be made available. See this post: http://library-matters.blogspot.com/2009/09/liblime-forks-koha.html and the comments here: http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2009/09/12/the-koha-community-retains-its-documentation-manager/ for some views on that.

]]> Comment on Changes at LibLime by Owen http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/changes-at-liblime/#comment-80 Owen Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:38:55 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-80 On the contrary Ben, LibLime has only promised to publicly release the version which LibLime creates--not contribute patches--after an unspecified period of testing. They have not promised (or even indicated) that they would work to make these changes part of the official version of Koha. The result is "my way or the highway." Either you pick the LibLime version or the official version. The two will be incompatible. That's a fork. On the contrary Ben, LibLime has only promised to publicly release the version which LibLime creates–not contribute patches–after an unspecified period of testing. They have not promised (or even indicated) that they would work to make these changes part of the official version of Koha. The result is “my way or the highway.” Either you pick the LibLime version or the official version. The two will be incompatible.

That’s a fork.

]]> Comment on Changes at LibLime by Ben http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/changes-at-liblime/#comment-79 Ben Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:31:51 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-79 No, not forked. Everyone else will get the same improvements that LibLime creates (for free). No, not forked. Everyone else will get the same improvements that LibLime creates (for free).

]]> Comment on Women in Open Source by Liz Rea http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/women-in-open-source/#comment-78 Liz Rea Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:56:48 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=280#comment-78 I was?! Oh... I will have to find that, lol. You sound quite knowledgeable, if you ask me. Good work! Girl Powah! I was?! Oh… I will have to find that, lol.

You sound quite knowledgeable, if you ask me. Good work!

Girl Powah!

]]> Comment on Digital Content in NExpress by Chris Cormack http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/digital-content-in-nexpress/#comment-77 Chris Cormack Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:53:59 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-77 Not owning an ipod makes you cool in my book. They are defective by design, or more truthfully itunes is. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/519889667/ Not owning an ipod makes you cool in my book. They are defective by design, or more truthfully itunes is.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/519889667/

]]> Comment on Successful Online Education with Pat Wagner by schoolinabox http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/successful-online-education-with-pat-wagner/#comment-76 schoolinabox Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:52:16 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=261#comment-76 You may find this article interesting. An Overview of the Marketing Demography and the Distance Educational Industry. http://schoolinabox.wordpress.com/an-overview-of-the-distance-educational-industry/ You may find this article interesting.

An Overview of the Marketing Demography and the Distance Educational Industry.

http://schoolinabox.wordpress.com/an-overview-of-the-distance-educational-industry/

]]> Comment on Kansas Prairie Fires by Virginia Allain http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/kansas-prairie-fires/#comment-70 Virginia Allain Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:08:52 +0000 http://lybrarian.wordpress.com/?p=186#comment-70 There's something primal about a prairie fire. There’s something primal about a prairie fire.

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