Time Nick Message 12:38 owen hdl: thanks for your memberentry fixes 12:39 hdl is this OK now ? 12:39 hdl it is for me 12:39 owen I'm just looking at it now. 12:45 owen I do see one problem: If I edit just one "step" of the record, the login and password are lost 12:48 hdl any step ? 12:49 owen Step 1 or 2 13:10 hdl owen : found : sending the patch. 13:45 hdl kados ? 13:45 hdl hi CGI737 13:57 qiqo hello everyon 13:57 qiqo e 14:01 qiqo hmm 14:01 owen Hi qiqo 14:02 qiqo owen i have a question 14:06 owen qiqo: go ahead, I'll help if I can 14:07 qiqo is koha capable of being the ils of a national library 14:14 owen Koha can be the ils of a national library if it has all the features required by that library, and if it scales sufficiently for the size of the library. The library should also consider whether they have the technical know-how to set up and maintain it 14:15 qiqo ohhh cool 14:15 owen You can't really answer the question unless you know all the library's requirements 14:30 kados qiqo: a couple national libraries already use koha 14:30 kados qiqo: cook islands for instance 14:30 kados samoa I think too 14:30 paul hi kados. 14:30 kados morning #koha 14:30 paul kados : we should advertise more that ! 14:30 paul (I didn't knew that) 14:30 kados paul: yes, we should! 14:30 kados koha.org needs more content 14:36 qiqo it should have success stories 14:36 qiqo i mean, migrating from proprietary to opensource 14:38 qiqo well ive been teaching koha in our university 14:40 atz qiqo: as librarianship, or programming ? 14:40 qiqo librarianship 14:40 atz cool 14:40 qiqo in cataloguing specially 14:41 qiqo professors usually invite me for 2 sessions, and students tend to be in their workstations 14:42 atz how do the students react to koha? 14:42 qiqo well it's a new thing to them 14:42 qiqo but they get the idea of having an ILS 14:42 qiqo before, they dont discuss online ILS 14:43 qiqo so right now im drafting the information systems strategic plan of my college 14:43 qiqo and im including koha as the official ILS for cataloguing 14:43 qiqo and also for other modules 14:44 qiqo btw we also developed our own ILS, just that i dont like it 14:44 qiqo ilib.up.edu.ph 14:44 qiqo http://ilib.upd.edu.ph/ 14:45 atz is ilib open source also? 14:45 qiqo nope 14:45 qiqo its inhouse develped 14:46 atz i see why you don't like it :) 14:46 qiqo and we wasted millions of money on that 14:46 paul qiqo : then you can say it's opensource ;-) 14:46 paul it's just open for you ! 14:46 qiqo not really 14:46 paul (which is the strict definition of opensource : user CAN see/modify/distribute the code) 14:46 qiqo these people from our computer science department are such idiots 14:46 qiqo that our university hired two batches of programmers 14:47 qiqo and still that program is not yet working 14:47 atz yeah, my 1st click gets an error! 14:47 atz java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space 14:47 qiqo lol 14:47 qiqo see! 14:47 qiqo hahaha 14:48 qiqo that uses xserve! 14:49 qiqo well it's been 6 years in development and nothing works 14:49 qiqo even circulation during training period crashed! 14:49 qiqo lol 14:50 atz At least they ripped off of decent CSS. 14:51 qiqo lol 14:51 qiqo yeah,, they are good at css and not with java 14:51 qiqo trying to complicate things so other non java programmers wont get their jobs 14:52 atz that will be a pretty hard argument as koha continues to gain popularity and prominence 14:53 qiqo well that's why i want koha to be the ils of very prominent institution in my country 14:53 qiqo *institutions 14:53 qiqo and i will keep on convincing them that this is a great matured product 18:59 [K] *** join #koha@FreeNode: gmcharlt n=gmcharlt@adsl-68-79-49-56.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net 09:36 paul chris around or sleeping ? 09:37 paul (a large patch in your mailbox...)