Time Nick Message 04:24 anand hello friends 04:24 mason hiya anand 04:45 Amit Hi Mason Good morning 04:46 mason hi amit 05:19 anasha hi amit 05:20 anasha any one tehre 05:20 mason ep, whats up? 05:39 Amit hi mc 05:42 Amit hi paul 05:42 Amit how r u 06:13 anasha hello mason 06:13 anasha how u doing 06:14 anasha this is anand sharma from india, mumbai 06:16 mason hi anand 06:16 mason have you been talking to amit from new delhi libraries much? 06:18 mason amit has been doing some work on hindi searching on koha 06:18 anasha yes 06:19 anasha i was talking to amit from new delhi 06:19 anasha yes told me that 06:20 anasha my compnay is based in mumbai... and i am one of the promoter,, 06:21 anasha we aim to push koha in to education sectors.. universities, Colleges & Schools 06:21 mason cool, its good to hear that koha is taking off in india 06:22 anasha I will make it sure I have 50+ installation by the end on 2009 06:23 anasha and it is not possible with help of you people 06:27 mason i have always thought india was a good place for koha :) 06:27 anasha you were right 06:28 mason delhi DPL will the biggest item count of any koha, i think 06:36 mason friends have told me the food is really good in mumbai 06:36 anasha yes 06:36 anasha you come some day to india 06:37 anasha i would love to be your host 06:37 mason okra dishes :) 06:38 magnusenger Just curious: how big will DPL be? Near East University on Cyprus apparently has 2 million items in Koha... 06:39 mason woooo 06:39 mason thats big! 06:39 magnusenger sure is! 06:40 mason hmm, im not exactly sure about DPL - 250,000 maybe.... 06:40 mason amit? 06:41 mason wow, i didnt know about NEU having 2 million 06:42 magnusenger guess it depends on how you count, too. Is one issue of one journal an item, or is the journal itself an item? 06:42 Amit dpl have 2 million records 06:42 paul hello world ! 06:43 Amit hello paul 06:43 magnusenger hello paul! 06:43 Amit hello magnusenger 06:43 magnusenger hello amit! 06:43 Amit i m from delhi public library 06:44 Amit u 06:44 mason hi magnus, im from new zealand 06:44 magnusenger I work at a small-ish academic library, but I am hoping to get a small business up and running, providing Koha to Norwegian libraries. 06:44 mason (near south pole :) ) 06:45 magnusenger (I live in Bodø, near the North Pole!) 06:45 mason meh, your pole has santa claus ;( 06:46 mason wanna swap poles? 06:46 magnusenger You have spring now, right? We're heading for winter! 06:46 mason we have a nice ozone hole ;) 06:46 magnusenger not sure I want that, though! 06:46 mason very warm down here 06:47 mason bring some sun-block 06:47 magnusenger about 9 degrees Celsius here, and right now I can see a rainbow from my window 06:48 magnusenger New Zeeland, land of the first Koha. Are there many libraries using Koha in NZ? 06:48 mason hmm, yes there are quite a few 06:49 magnusenger Do you have your own "community" - mail lists or gatherings or anything? 06:49 magnusenger Or are you all "just" part of the international community? 06:50 mason is there much of a norwegian language translation for koha3? 06:50 mason no NZ lists, just part of the big community 06:51 magnusenger Yes, 4 people have been working really hard on translating 3. I think they are "finnished" too, but I'm not sure all their work is included in the distro 06:51 mason we have little gatherings now and again ;) 06:51 magnusenger cool 06:52 mason magnus++ 06:52 magnusenger I'm wondering how we should/could do that in Norway. I think we should probably have som kind og list or forum, since we're not native english speakers. 06:52 magnusenger But we shouldn't forget the bigger community either 06:53 mason the french teams have a koha-fr #irc channel 06:53 mason for discussions in french... 06:53 mason you could do the same.. 06:54 magnusenger Cool, but i have a feeling Noregian librarians aren't into irc 06:54 magnusenger I'm thinking more along the lines of a web forum 06:54 magnusenger I think that's better to use as a reference, too, perhaps? 06:54 mason yes 06:55 magnusenger But first we have to get some libraries to actually use Koha, I guess... 06:56 mason its a good idea tho, 06:56 mason no need to exclude people from koha discussions because they cant understand english 06:57 mc hello 06:57 mason perhaps a google.translate or babelfish translator thing might help there.. 06:58 magnusenger I think all librarians here speak english, but I think having that as the only language to communicate in would put people off... 06:58 magnusenger hell mc 06:58 magnusenger oops 06:58 magnusenger *hello* mc 06:58 mason heya marc 06:58 paul mason & magnusenger : I confirm what magnusenger says : on #koha-fr, there are only some geeks. BibLibre, of course, and sometimes an other IT guy (& sometimes Frederic, from tamil) 06:58 paul but almost never a librarian 06:59 magnusenger a ha, that would probably be the same here, then 06:59 magnusenger but I guess having some kind of channel for the techies might be good thing too... 07:00 magnusenger So how do librarians talk to each other about Koha (if they do at all...) 07:00 mc what do you expect using IRC? this is unknown by the masses 07:00 mc (imho) 07:00 mason mc, yes i agree 07:01 magnusenger I'm a librarian, and this is like my 3rd time on irc 07:01 mason librraians primarily discuss on koha mailing list 07:02 mason http://www.koha.org/community/mailing-lists.html 07:02 mason mostly in english :( 07:02 magnusenger Ah, I see that there is a french list too... 07:03 mason and german, spanish 07:04 magnusenger Cool. There is actually a Norwegian list too, but since nobody is using Koha here yet, there is very little traffic 07:04 mason mailing-lists are searchable as a web-forum too 07:05 magnusenger good point, I have used that on several occasions 07:05 mason so this could be an OK solution for norwegian librarian discussions 07:06 mason ok, off for some food.. 07:06 magnusenger Guess so. the immediacy of a mailing list has it's good bits 11:56 Amit hi frederic