15:00:36 #startmeeting Koha General IRC Meeting, part 2 15:00:36 Meeting started Thu Jul 10 15:00:36 2014 UTC. The chair is cait. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:00:36 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 15:00:36 The meeting name has been set to 'koha_general_irc_meeting__part_2' 15:00:46 #topic Introductions 15:00:47 #info wahanui, a bot that has become sentient 15:01:00 #info Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries 15:01:01 #info MJ Ray, software.coop, England 15:01:07 please identify yourself with #info 15:01:12 #info Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany 15:01:21 #info Jane Wagner, LibLime/PTFS 15:01:25 #info Jonathan Druart, BibLibre 15:01:40 #info Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City 15:01:47 hm forgot the date in the meeting name, not the best start 15:01:54 #info Joel Sasse, Plum Creek Library, USA 15:02:15 #info Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel, Córdoba, Argentina 15:02:40 #topic Announcements 15:02:50 any announcements? :) 15:03:23 Where will the log go without a date? 15:03:25 from the log of yesterday's meeting: rangi is looking into a nicer way to do documentation, hopefully meaning something web based 15:03:45 s/log/current log/ 15:03:52 thd: i think the links will still work in the end, but the file names will be a bit differnt to the first meeting 15:04:05 it automatically includes a date at the end 15:04:15 #info Chris Cormack is investigating an alternative markup language and infrastructure for the manual, such as restructed text 15:04:16 i already had it that way, cait. 15:04:30 #info Galen Charlton, Equinox 15:04:47 #info Tomas Cohen Arazi, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba 15:04:57 rangi is testing getting https://notex.ch/home/?theme=gray running locally for now 15:05:04 anything else? 15:05:39 ok, moing on 15:05:49 #topic Update on maintenance releases 15:06:00 #info 3.16.1 released on 27 June 15:06:05 #info 3.14.8 released on 26 June 15:06:10 #info 3.12.13 released on 24 June 15:06:35 rmains? :) 15:07:00 gmcharlt, fridolin, khall? 15:07:21 3.16.2 later this month! :) 15:07:22 #info Kyle Hall, Bywater Solutions 15:07:34 ah, i woke him up ;) 15:07:52 heh 15:07:53 ok, moving on? 15:08:04 topic Update on 3.18 15:08:10 #topic Update on 3.18 15:08:20 tcohen? 15:08:20 tcohen is obsessed with packages' scripts 15:08:24 no updates for now 15:08:26 quit 15:08:35 oh 15:08:37 yes 15:08:38 sorry 15:08:43 :) 15:09:14 David Cook is willing to work on a uniform API for searching, while he's working on ZEbra / Search rewrite/refactoring 15:09:32 the idea is have the ES people on board 15:09:45 we should all be extra nice to him then :) 15:09:54 yeah 15:09:55 dcook++ 15:10:06 jcamins' cookies for dcook 15:10:09 cait: what do you mean by update on 3.18 ? the updatedatabase perl script ? 15:10:16 news 15:10:43 fridolin: news frm the RM mostly 15:10:56 cait: David set a Trello board with the goals and possible roadmap 15:11:01 oki 15:11:02 or general ones about things for 3.18 15:11:17 it is on the Koha Community organization in Trello 15:11:21 #info David Cook is willing to work on a uniform API for searching, while he's working on Zebra / Search rewrite/refactoring 15:11:49 #info He set a Trello board with goals and a possible road map 15:12:27 gmcharlt: ? 15:12:36 #info Galen Charlton is calling a GBSD on 23 July for testing of the UTF8 work (bug 11944) 15:12:36 i already had it that way, gmcharlt. 15:12:36 04Bug http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11944 major, P5 - low, ---, jonathan.druart, Needs Signoff , Cleanup Koha UTF-8 15:12:45 gmcharlt++ 15:12:48 wahanui: forget #info Galen Charlton 15:12:49 gmcharlt: I forgot #info galen charlton 15:13:34 gmcharlt++ 15:14:09 I hope lots of testers for that :) 15:14:24 but there are still some bugs 15:14:28 on searching 15:14:40 Joubu: we'll fix them 15:14:44 :-D 15:15:13 no it's not a testing day, but a patching day? 15:15:17 s/no/so 15:15:22 bye 15:15:32 i can be both 15:15:33 I thik maybe both? one group testing and documenting, the other trying to fix? 15:15:38 Joubu: well, what's is called for - I'm expecting that mroe issues will be identified 15:15:46 and that maybe some patches will be written 15:15:54 but I also expect that there will be follow-up work after the GBSD 15:18:09 ok, moving on 15:18:20 #topic Code of Conduct 15:18:33 ok 15:18:47 I've received feedback from two people privately that I will be turning into pull requests 15:18:57 and thd indicated that he has some points he wants to bring up on the mailnig list 15:19:14 consequently, in the first part of the meeting I proposed postponing the vote to the August meeting 15:19:55 and the first meeting agreed to it 15:20:10 any objections to the postponement from folks here? 15:20:15 :) 15:20:28 nope 15:20:29 gmcharlt is typing faster than me today :) 15:20:47 * gmcharlt has coffee in hand.... RAWR!!!! 15:21:04 heh 15:21:16 fennel tea here... i think i found the problem 15:21:27 ok, quiet 15:21:32 i take that as an agreed 15:21:33 3. 15:21:35 2 15:21:38 1 15:21:39 #agreed To allow more time for discussion and edits, the vote on the Code of Conduct is deferred to the August meeting 15:21:42 moving on 15:21:52 #topic KohaCon 2014 15:21:57 tcohen, bgkriegel? :) 15:22:24 nothing from me 15:22:49 how is the program going? 15:22:57 ah 15:23:10 we have set a deadline for submissions 15:23:22 deadlines are good 15:23:31 will you send something to the mailing lists? 15:23:36 August 31st 15:23:37 Is anyone else able to git pull? 15:23:39 yes 15:23:55 Oops 15:23:58 tcohen: another question - are you open to remote presentations over videoconference? 15:23:59 #info Mark Tompsett 15:24:07 we will 15:24:10 mtompset: not now 15:24:12 #action tcohen will send an email about the deadline of the CfP for KohaCon14 to the mailing list 15:24:19 we have received an inquiry from zeno about that 15:24:26 we need to do some tests 15:24:36 #info remote presentations over video conference are an option 15:24:49 but definitely, if it is worth, we will have videoconferences 15:24:55 #info ... but need some testing 15:25:15 tcohen: can you say something about sponsorship and registrations? 15:25:26 I know that the the NAKUG is in need of more presenters, video conf or otherwise 15:25:43 nakug? 15:25:54 North American Koha Users Group 15:26:19 #info NAKUG is in need of more presenters, video conf or otherwise 15:26:23 we have set 3 degrees of sponsorship 15:26:24 I would be willing to make a presentation, I had thought the primary goal was round table discussion 15:26:29 #info NAKUG = North American Koha Users Group 15:27:05 1- Main sponsor: US$ 2000.- 15:27:05 2- Sponsor: US$ 1000.- 15:27:17 and third, addehrents 15:27:38 khall: All presentations are welcome at NAKUG 15:27:56 we have much of the costs covered by UNC 15:27:57 NAKUG is North American Koha Users Group 15:28:10 UNC++ 15:28:19 Yes, lots of roundtable at nakug, but my institution (uintah co lib) is brand new 2 koha 15:28:34 So some presentations wud b nice 15:28:45 tcohen: is the sponsorship information available somewhere yet? 15:28:52 it is not 15:29:04 people are approaching us directly 15:29:20 we've not been good in writing stuff yet 15:29:25 * tcohen is really overloaded 15:29:35 let us know if we can help? 15:29:50 i asked for help last meeting 15:30:11 oh 15:31:13 ok, moving on? 15:31:24 #info any volunteer that can help tcohen and bgkriegel putting more info on the kohacon14 site contact them, directly 15:31:37 :) 15:31:50 #topic Kohacon 2015 15:31:52 #link http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon15_Proposals 15:32:00 So far we only got one proposal from Nigeria 15:32:13 #info As of now, we have one bid for Ibadan, Nigeria by Projektlink Konsult Ltd, and an expression of interest but no proposal yet for hosting it in Zambia 15:32:29 last meeting agreed on setting a deadline for the bids 15:32:44 15 August 15:33:15 can we get a qick poll? 15:33:38 +1 15:33:45 (+1) 15:33:53 already voted yesterdy i think :) 15:33:57 +1 15:34:00 +1 15:34:41 #agreed A deadline of 15 August is set for proposals to host the 2015 conference 15:34:41 i already had it that way, cait. 15:34:46 thd volunteered to send an email 15:34:59 #action thd will send an email announcing the deadline 15:35:08 #topic Actions items from previous meeting 15:35:22 copying this from the last meeting's logs :) 15:35:23 #info All action items from the previous meeting have occurred 15:35:40 anythign else before we set the date of the next meeting? 15:35:55 Announcement from my owner (gmcharlt): WAKE UP! 15:36:17 #topic Set time of next meeting 15:36:19 I will send that message this evening. 15:36:22 yeah sleepy meeting :) 15:36:25 thd++ 15:36:32 last meeting agreed on 15:36:40 22 UTC on 13 August and 15 UTC on 14 August 15:36:40 thd++ 15:36:42 this date ok? 15:36:49 or more: these dates? 15:37:33 +1 15:37:43 #agreed Next general IRC meeting is scheduled in two parts: 22 UTC on 13 August and 15 UTC on 14 August 15:37:51 #endmeeting