[committee] Koha

[David Adam]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ewan MacLeod wrote:
> To both UCC and Unisfa committees,
>
> I was talking with some of wheel on Monday night and they suggested that
> we host Koha - the Unisfa library database on one of the UCC machines
> (that is apparently backed up to tape). This way we won't have to rely
> on the ..less reliable Deep Thought.

I don't think the databases themselves are actually backed up using the
proper tools, so we'd probably need to fix that.

> It also means that it's less of a concern replacing (the currently
> broken) DT and we could just annex one of the UCC computers to use in
> our clubroom.

I know we have a long and proud history of sharing equipment, members and
sexually-transmitted infrections, but I'm curious as to how Just Annexing
is going to work.

> Just giving the idea out there to both clubs to talk it over.
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Sounds like a reasonable plan all up.

KOHA is web-based, isn't it? So it doesn't really matter where it's hosted
or where it's accessed from.

David Adam
UCC 0x20nd President
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au