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Taking a break

I am currently feeling really disheartened and disappointed in the reaction of many libraries to the situation with Koha and the proprietary Liblime fork.

So I am stepping back, I am not going to comment on it, and try to not even think about it for the next month or so. I feel I have said my piece, and feel like I have not been listened to, which is fine, but it signals that there is little point continuing.

So I wish you all a merry whatever you celebrate, and a happy new year. I’ll get to bugfixing and coding 🙂

Maps of libraries using a FOSS ILS

David Friggens has done some neat work making up maps of libraries running a FOSS ILS. They aren’t exhaustive drawing data from libwebcats, which has a great list, but has some missing. If you notice your library is not on these maps head over to http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ and add it there.

Here are the maps

Academic Libraries

Public Libraries

Special/Corporate Libraries

Kahurangi’s Party take two

Well it’s not actually raining, and it is supposed to improve over the day, so we are gonna brave it. The satellite image looks promising and we can always just blame Sarah or Chris N if the weather closes back in 🙂

If you have a tarp or anything like that for sitting on, that would be awesome I suspect the ground is going to be damp.

Update

The weather held off and Kahurangi had a great time and I think all his friends did too. There are a few photos here