I found this on The Social Opac’s official site:

BibLibre’s Nicolas Morin gave a presentation last week called “SOPAC: Connecting Drupal and Koha” where he talks about BibLibre’s experience with SOPAC and getting a Locum connector to work with Koha. Check it out:

sopac : connecting koha and drupal

Last week one of the Koha Librarians created a page on the Koha Wiki for everyone to share their Custom Reports/SQL statements. This from Owen at Athens County:

Koha users have begun building a library of useful SQL statements for use in building Koha reports. It’s on the Koha Wiki. You can add your own or put in a request for a report you’d like to know how to do. If you’d like to contribute you can either register on the site or use OpenID to log in. If you’ve never edited a wiki before, be sure to check out the Formatting Syntax article before you jump in.

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What’s your full name (middle name too)?

Marcus Lee Roberson

What’s your job title?

VP, Library Partners

Did you (or do you) have a nickname?

Not on that can be published

Also, Marc

What’s your favorite color?

Navy

What’s your favorite food or meal?

Seafood, specifically shrimp of almost any type

What’s your favorite word (keep it clean)?

Hope

Are you a dog or a cat person?

Both

Do you have any pets?

Yes a 1 year old Wheaten Terrier named Milo

Why did you want to work with LibLime?

I’ve been on the other side of the ILS fence and know that there are libraries out there who need help in an affordable, customizable format and LibLime provides those options.

What did you know about open source before taking on this job?

I knew very little about OSS other than from a library perspective. Working at LibLime has not only opened my eyes to library related OSS but also to the greater movement as well.

What’s at the top of your wishlist for the next version of Koha?

Hmm… I would love to see someone sponsor integration with a resource sharing alternative like Relais. Full integration with another OSS product like Relais could well make Koha unstoppable!

If you had all of the skills, time and money, what open source application would you like to develop?

I would like to see someone develop software to help with tracking renewable resources, especially in third world applications. Helping people to become energy independent is something I would enjoy doing and being able to track how resources are shared and how we can help would be awesome.

What are your top three favorite websites?

Well LibLime.com of course! But seriously:

• Flickr,

• heifer.org and
• edga.org

What would you do if you won the lottery?

Pay off a lot of debts for friends and relatives, donate a great deal to individual charities I donate to now but in greater quantity and fund more OSS alternatives to “big box” software.

Are you an organized desk person or a messy desk person?

Pathetically clean desk. I can’t stand to go to sleep at night knowing there are papers on the desk that hold be in a folder!

Anything else you want our readers to know about you?

I have enjoyed working in the library space more than anything else I have ever done. My “library relationship” started with my elementary school librarian, and neighbor, who mentored me through skipping three grades (1st, 3rd and 7th) and helped me through the arduous process of scholarship writing to be able to start college at 14 years of age. Without Marian Wilson I would not be where I am today. Thanks Mrs. Wilson.

Richard Stallman has a very interesting post entitled Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software that talks about free software versus open source and the origins of the terms and their philosophies.

Nearly all open source software is free software; the two terms describe almost the same category of software. But they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, because only free software respects the users’ freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. It says that non-free software is a suboptimal solution. For the free software movement, however, non-free software is a social problem, and moving to free software is the solution.

Free software. Open source. If it’s the same software, does it matter which name you use? Yes, because different words convey different ideas. While a free program by any other name would give you the same freedom today, establishing freedom in a lasting way depends above all on teaching people to value freedom. If you want to help do this, it is essential to speak about “free software.”

Read the entire article here.