If you can’t wait for the official release of OpenOffice 3.0, you can download the beta which is now available for download. This via DownloadSquad: So what’s new under the hood? Here are some of the highlights: OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the first version to run on Mac OS X (there are also Linux and Windows versions) OpenOffice.org [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Sat, 10 May 2008 12:18:06 +0000

Guillaume Lebleu has written a tool to help decide whether or not to open source your software. By elaborating on the simple notion of “why giveaway something you can charge for”, I developed the chart below to help me discuss the decision with my colleagues. The idea is to not view open source as an all [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Thu, 08 May 2008 22:48:55 +0000

Via Code4Lib: The OpenLibrary.org team has just finished its latest release on the long path towards “one web page for every book ever published.” What’s new? added another 6 million book records (13.4 million total) with 18 million more records waiting to be integrated built an API to the data which allows you to query the database [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Wed, 07 May 2008 18:33:37 +0000

Questa pagina è una raccolta di strumenti per la traduzione di Koha 3.0 in italiano. Per chi desiderasse collaborare è bene che si segnali sulla lista koha-translate http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate Glossario I termini sono ...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-05-07T00:35:33+01:00

Not Your Average Geeks has a post reviewing 9 open source e-commerce applications. OsCommerce Zencart VirtueMart Magento Cubecart X-Cart LiteCommerce Shopify Read all about them.

Posted in Open Sesame, Mon, 05 May 2008 18:58:17 +0000

(including specific notes for UNIMARC) Packages / softwares to update and/or add apt-get install libexpat1-dev on Debian : libexpat is used by zebra install yaz ( from http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ This one is already here, but you must update it...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-05-05T07:39:55+01:00

Online resources used for the translation English → Dutch Library Lingo (glossary by Ria Smith)http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/rst.smith/librarylingo.html#glossaries ODLIS http://www.lu.com/odlis Van Dale online http://www.vandale.nl/vanda...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-04-29T02:36:49+01:00

While I’ve talked to lots of people about their open source experiences, I have yet to hear from people about their specific migration experiences. So, when I saw this guest post by Sharon Moreland on the MaintainIT Project blog, I had to share it with you all. Sharon is the Director at the Tonganoxie Public [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Mon, 05 May 2008 10:57:57 +0000

I found this site http://kohaprojectgr.greeklis.org/ over the weekend. From what google translate tells me its a site set up by someone who is spending time translating templates and manuals into greek. So well done to whoever is doing it, and keep up the good work.

Posted in Korerorero Koha, Sun, 04 May 2008 21:27:46 +0000

Now that we’ve had a beta version of Koha 3.0 out for a little while now, there is some increased interest in getting a final version of Koha 3.0 put together soon. Paul recently started a discussion on the koha developers list about what we need to do to get a release out the door. [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Mon, 05 May 2008 01:50:49 +0000

Thank you Chrissy for posting your paper! I wish more students would post stuff like this. Many library and information professionals feel that open source software aligns with public library values and First Amendment rights. Tammi Moe, a librarian working for the open source consulting firm Re:Evolve, explains, “The Open Source community shares common [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Sat, 03 May 2008 23:49:42 +0000

Insoshi, built on Ruby with Rails, is a neat sounding new addition to both the open source and social networking worlds. Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product! Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:25:54 +0000

Despite not being even remotely Irish, my mother likes to make a traditional corned-beef and cabbage dinner for our family on St. Patrick’s Day, and this year was no exception. (Sorry, no pix.) My mother is a five-foot tall head reference librarian in a local public library system and she commands the [...

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:41:16 +0000

Installing Koha 3 Beta On Ubuntu Gutsy Installing Prerequisites Install libexpat ( Needed For Zebra ). apt-get install libexpat1-dev Install libssl0.9.7 ( Needed For Yaz ). Gutsy has libssl0.9.8, but yaz won’t install with that one. We ne...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-04-28T07:48:53+01:00

Who added AI to Koha? Hint: Git tries its best to properly assign credit to patches, but it doesn’t always get it right.

Posted in LibLime Developers' Blog, Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:40:27 +0000

About 70,000 students and their 7,000 teachers in the Geneva school district will gradually be moving to Open Source. The decision to move to Open Source was taken by the Geneva Public School District (Département de l’Instruction Publique Genevois (DIP) in March 2006, says Manuel Grandjean, project leader for the Geneva district’s Open Source migration. “The [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:01:17 +0000

I just received an announcement that Relais International will be moving all or part of their software to an open source model. Relais International has been working with libraries to develop systems to assist in providing a full range of interlibrary loan and document delivery services, for almost 10 years. More on this will [...

Posted in Open Sesame, Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:04:15 +0000

Вики АБИС Koha на русском Новости Начат перевод Коха 3.0 на русский - http://209.223.236.189:8080/ru/koha3beta2/ (OPAC, STAFF, glossary, скомпилированные архивы шаблонов и инсталляция) Ресурсы Сводный Интернет каталог библиотечных и научн...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-04-23T14:39:28+01:00

Вікі АБІС Koha українською Новини Старт перекладу Коха 3.0 на українську - http://209.223.236.189:8080/uk/koha3beta2/ (OPAC, STAFF, glossary, скомпільовані архіви шаблонів та інсталяція) Перекладені матеріали, документація Анонс Koha 3.0 (альф...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-04-23T14:37:31+01:00

тут варіант для Lenny Встановлення АБІС Koha 3 альфа/бета на сервер Linux Debian Etch І. Керівництво по інсталяції 1. Встановлення базової системи Debian Etch 4.0r3 Див. також The Perfect Setup - Debian Etch (Debian 4.0) 1.1. Отримання Debia...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-04-22T10:30:09+01:00

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Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-04-22T10:12:16+01:00

I do a lot of talks about open source software in libraries. I have a set list of open source products that I think librarians would be interested in (not necessarily library specific). I’m wondering what products you all like using. Some biggies on my list are: Ubuntu Firefox Pidgin What else should I add?

Posted in Open Sesame, Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:40:29 +0000

24.082 in search box is used as such. When on advanced search page 24.082 becomes @attr 1=1016 4=6 “24 082” So that it searches biblios contaning 24 AND 082 anywhere in fields. It is rather confusing for users to have such difference bet...

Posted in Koha Developer Wiki, 2008-04-17T10:27:55+01:00

If you are like me, you often want to rebase, or pull from a repo but have a bunch of local changes you don’t want to commit (yet) but also don’t want to lose, well git-stash is your answer. This is really handy when working on Koha, you don’t have to muck around with local commits [...

Posted in Korerorero Koha, Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:28:21 +0000