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Today's Topics:
1. personal post to Evergreen community (Steve Wills)
2. Re: personal post to Evergreen community (Lori Ayre)
3. Open ILS Add-ons (Lori Ayre)
4. Re: Settings-tester results (Dan Scott)
5. Re: Open ILS Add-ons (Tara Robertson)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:29:40 +0000
From: "Steve Wills" <[email protected]>
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] personal post to Evergreen community
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <w41152618538441252704...@webmail29>
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Heya guys,
I am posting this using my personal email so that it is clear that
this letter is from Steve Wills and NOT from NELINET nor from
Lyrasis. This morning I posted a letter on the Koha site where there
is a debate going on about whether they should form a foundation
around the Koha software. This was my response to that community,
which I would like to share with you as well.
Sung to the tune of "Where Have All the Sources Gone".
My Two cents is that we do not form a Koha community or an Evergreen
community in competition. Let's talk about forming/joining a library
community which would support and endorse Library support projects
in cooperation.
The Evergreen community is at almost that same place at the age of
three that this Koha community seems to be with respect to this
subject. The histories are different in terms of development detail
but within the library community, there appears to be some blood in
the water and that is making it difficult to see clearly downstream.
Open Source communities are formed for the benefit of a global world
in need of affordable, considered solutions. I would propose that we
think about a foundation dedicated to managing and perfecting
solutions for libraries with a structure that draws from such
successful FOSS projects as Elicpse, Sourceforge, and Apache. Such a
foundation would be chartered to serve librarian, patron and
developer alike without any particular alligence to Koha, Evergreen
or whatever else we spawn in the future that we wish to give back to
the library community.
Steve Wills
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:28:12 -0700
From: Lori Ayre <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] personal post to Evergreen community
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
<[email protected]>, Koha list
<[email protected]>
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<[email protected]>
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Steve (and all),
I support this idea and if there's a way I can be of assistance,
let's talk.
I think getting a ball like this rolling would have to come from
someone
like us - people who are not actively involved in just one of the
products
but who sees the importance of both products/projects succeeding.
Lori Ayre
The Galecia Group
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Steve Wills <swi...@beyond-
print.com>wrote:
Heya guys,
I am posting this using my personal email so that it is clear that
this
letter is from Steve Wills and NOT from NELINET nor from Lyrasis.
This
morning I posted a letter on the Koha site where there is a debate
going on
about whether they should form a foundation around the Koha
software. This
was my response to that community, which I would like to share with
you as
well.
Sung to the tune of "Where Have All the Sources Gone".
My Two cents is that we do not form a Koha community or an Evergreen
community in competition. Let's talk about forming/joining a library
community which would support and endorse Library support projects in
cooperation.
The Evergreen community is at almost that same place at the age of
three
that this Koha community seems to be with respect to this subject.
The
histories are different in terms of development detail but within the
library community, there appears to be some blood in the water and
that is
making it difficult to see clearly downstream. Open Source
communities are
formed for the benefit of a global world in need of affordable,
considered
solutions. I would propose that we think about a foundation
dedicated to
managing and perfecting solutions for libraries with a structure
that draws
from such successful FOSS projects as Elicpse, Sourceforge, and
Apache.
Such a foundation would be chartered to serve librarian, patron and
developer alike without any particular alligence to Koha, Evergreen
or
whatever else we spawn in the future that we wish to give back to the
library community.
Steve Wills
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:12:42 -0700
From: Lori Ayre <[email protected]>
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open ILS Add-ons
To: [email protected], Koha list
<[email protected]>
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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Hi All,
I'm doing research for a program I'm involved in on Open Source ILS
add-ons. I'd love to hear back from any of you who have some
favorites that
you think are important for me to mention.
In terms of categories of ILS add-ons, I'm thinking OPAC, metasearch
and
content aggregators, link resolvers....what am I missing?
Any help is much appreciated.
Lori
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:53:33 -0400
From: Dan Scott <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Settings-tester results
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <1252727613.3938.165.ca...@dbs-denials>
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On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 08:39 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
I think it is better to post the results from my settings-tester.pl
script. Here
are the output:
<snip>
Please install one of the following modules: Net::Z3950
Net::Z3950::ZOOM
You'll need to force the install of the Net::Z3950::ZOOM CPAN module
eventually, although that's not causing the main problem that we're
seeing below. Net::Z3950::ZOOM is mostly needed for importing records
from Z39.50 servers.
<snip>
Checking Jabber connection for user opensrf, domain private.localhost
* Jabber successfully connected
Checking Jabber connection for user opensrf, domain public.localhost
* Jabber successfully connected
Checking Jabber connection for user router, domain public.localhost
* Jabber successfully connected
Checking Jabber connection for user router, domain private.localhost
* Jabber successfully connected
Good, good.
Checking database connections
DBI connect('dbname=;host=;port=','',...) failed: could not connect
to server:
No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
at settings-tester.pl line 205
* /opensrf/default/reporter/setup :: Unable to connect to database
dbi:Pg:dbname=;host=;port=, user=, password=
* /opensrf/default/reporter/setup :: Unable to connect to database
dbi:Pg:dbname=;host=;port=, user=, password=
Hmm, this is bad. Does your /openils/conf/opensrf.xml file have any
database connections defined? It sounds like the connection info is
all
blank.
This could happen, I suppose, if the eg_db_config.pl script was run
with
blank values for the database name / hostname / port / user / password
arguments.
If i start the opensrf services there are no error messages and i
am able to
view the web opac both on the local machine and on remote machines.
Help me
guys.
Right, you don't need a working database connection to see the OPAC
(but
you do need it for the OPAC to work). I would suggest looking in
opensrf.xml for <database> elements and ensuring that the connection
information is all set correctly, then run settings-tester.pl again.
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:25:16 -0700
From: Tara Robertson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open ILS Add-ons
To: [email protected], Evergreen Discussion Group
<[email protected]>
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I can't think of other major categories, but I can think of a few
examples
of specific tools. While not exactly add-ons, here are some things
that a
few libraries have integrated into their catalog or library website.
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada) has some open source
tools
including a serials management tool (CUFTS), link resolver (GODOT),
and
federated search for databases (dbWIZ): http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts
Kete is a collaborative digital collection/repository kinda thing,
developed
Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications in New Zealand
(the same
collaboration who started Koha): http://kete.net.nz/ I can't find it
on
their site now but Auckland City Library will be using Kete for a
local
history, and/or Chinese history digtal collection. Digital NZ uses
Kete as a
container for users to submit digital stuff to the Digital NZ
collection
that is not already online.
I'd love to read your research, can you post a link back here when
you're
done?
Cheers,
tara
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Lori Ayre <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm doing research for a program I'm involved in on Open Source ILS
add-ons. I'd love to hear back from any of you who have some
favorites that
you think are important for me to mention.
In terms of categories of ILS add-ons, I'm thinking OPAC,
metasearch and
content aggregators, link resolvers....what am I missing?
Any help is much appreciated.
Lori
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