Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Taylor
Joann, This is horrible news, and you have my sympathy. It's very strange to think how recently we all thought of LibLime as being among the Good Guys. My position on this is that the name is probably not worth as much as it feels that it's worth. I can understand why as the originators you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread Ross Singer
Mark, I'm only getting that for the results page. Are you getting it somewhere else? I'll fix the results page as soon as I can. -Ross. On Monday, November 21, 2011, Mark Diggory mdigg...@atmire.com wrote: The ever popular...Internal Server Error On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Anjanette

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread Ross Singer
Ok, the results screen should no longer be throwing an error. Vote early, vote often, -Ross. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, I'm only getting that for the results page.  Are you getting it somewhere else? I'll fix the results page as soon as I

[CODE4LIB] Last Call for Chapters

2011-11-22 Thread Edward Iglesias
Please excuse cross posting. Hello All,      This is the last call for chapters for the book “Robots in Academic Libraries: Advancements in Library Automation,” part of the book series, Advances in Library Information Science (ALIS) from IGI Publishers.  The deadline for submissions is December

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Jon Gorman
Hi Joann, Have you considered sending this to some of the tech podcasts? I think both the Command-Line podcast (http://thecommandline.net/) and Linux Outlaws (http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws/) would be great audiences and receptive to this story. I'm a regular listener of both and if you want me

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Karen Coyle
Joann, I was recently in New Zealand and heard Aroha Mead speak on the legal protection of Maori heritage. Her area of expertise is indigenous culture and intellectual property issues. Given that Koha is a significant Maori word [1] with cultural meaning, it may be defendable on that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Joann, A name change may not be necessary. For what it's worth, a long time ago in 2000 when I was getting my Avanti project off the ground, a group in Germany that I was unaware of developing an information retrieval database system called Avanti objected to the name I had chosen for my

Re: [CODE4LIB] Horowhenua Donation Page

2011-11-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! I haven't followed this at all, so can anyone fill me in on what this actually means in New Zealand?  That Liblime can sue the library to force them to change Koha's name? I now notice that Archivists' Toolkit, Archon, and Islandora are trademarked.     Before I say anything at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Horowhenua Donation Page

2011-11-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! T hat Paypal link gives an error. (fatal error in fact) - kc     Mmm, despite me testing it first, the tinyurl busted after a few minutes. (Hopefully from lots of donations. :) ) Try accessing it from this site: http://library-matters.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Brooke

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:51:11 +1300, Joann Ransom wrote: Horowhenua Library Trust is the birth place of Koha and the longest serving member of the Koha community. Back in 1999 when we were working on Koha, the idea that 12 years later we would be having to write an email like this never

[CODE4LIB] Faculty Profiles Web App

2011-11-22 Thread Francis Kayiwa
I am curious if any here can recommend a Web App that allows Faculty to easily create the Vitae using Web Forms. I am looking at/into Penn States http://plone.org/products/faculty-staff-directory but their might be something already turn-key. Cheers, ./fxk -- It's not the fall that kills

[CODE4LIB] policies for patron-created content and web accounts

2011-11-22 Thread Nina Mchale
Greetings, all, and apologies for cross-posting: I am looking for examples of policies/procedures/guidelines that govern patron/user created library web site content. If you have an official policy, and wouldn't mind sharing, please send it to me (whether attached as a document or link) off-list.

Re: [CODE4LIB] policies for patron-created content and web accounts

2011-11-22 Thread Shaun Ellis
Nina, You might look at IntenseDebate [1], which is a commenting system developed by the WordPress development team at Automattic [2]. It's pretty easy to install: You cut and paste some JavaScript, customize the CSS, and configure it as necessary. It's all hosted, but the data is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread Andrew Nagy
My votes are not showing after returning to the voting page. I thought I remembered being able to modify my votes from previous years. I went through the first 30 or so, and wanted to come back to it to go through more, but my votes are not persisting. Is this a bug, a change, or a failure in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread MJ Ray
Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com So your best bet may be to shrug and let them have the old name for their proprietary fork. Just come up with a new name for the open codebase, let the world know, and move on with doing more useful things -- spending what money you have on coders and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Mike Taylor
On 22 November 2011 19:32, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com So your best bet may be to shrug and let them have the old name for their proprietary fork.  Just come up with a new name for the open codebase, let the world know, and move on with doing more useful

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread Tom Keays
Mine are being remembered from this morning when I filled it out at home. I'm now on a different network/OS/browser. Tom On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Andrew Nagy asn...@gmail.com wrote: My votes are not showing after returning to the voting page. I thought I remembered being able to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread David Uspal
FYI I've been getting Internal Server Errors all day. Switched browsers, same issue. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Keays Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:19 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread David Uspal
Of course, literally two seconds after sending my last email, my vote finally goes through... -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Keays Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:19 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
Why do I have the feeling that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presentation on test driven development is going to get 99% of the vote? On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:34 PM, David Uspal wrote: Of course, literally two seconds after sending my last email, my vote finally goes through... -Original

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Shaun Ellis
You might also contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to see if they might be willing/able to help: https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance -Shaun On 11/22/11 9:10 AM, Jon Gorman wrote: Hi Joann, Have you considered sending this to some of the tech podcasts? I think both the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread todd.d.robb...@gmail.com
Great idea Shaun! -- Tod Robbins iSchool GSA Crew MLIS Candidate 2012 University of Washington

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
FWIW, the discussion on hackernews http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264378 On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Joann Ransom wrote: Horowhenua Library Trust is the birth place of Koha and the longest serving member of the Koha community. Back in 1999 when we were working on Koha, the idea that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Peter Schlumpf
Glad you came 'round, Mike. I would not suggest that they roll over and back down. A name is a very important thing. Try asking Coca-Cola to give up theirs. In reading this news I was angry enough to the point of writing an open letter to LibLime and this forum stating my views and asking

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Cary Gordon
I don't think that shame is a significant deterrent for a company like Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc., which has taken every opportunity with Koha to flout the open-source spirit in which it was developed. Somehow, I think that if they could get a trademark on the term cluster bomb,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread Cary Gordon
BTW, you can't put a Paypal button in a post to this list. I suggest that you send a link. Cary On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Joann Ransom jran...@library.org.nz wrote: Horowhenua Library Trust is the birth place of Koha and the longest serving member of the Koha community. Back in 1999

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread Cary Gordon
I would definitely vote for it! I also want to vote for Rick Perry's presentations on go, dash and … uh... On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick cf...@stanford.edu wrote: Why do I have the feeling that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presentation on test driven development is going to get