Hi Joshua -

Interesting work!  I took on a tangential project to implement thin-client
opacs using linux/gnome sessions a few years ago with pretty good success
so it is nice to see some new work here.

Other than an internal report that says that the project was mostly
successful I do not have much that came out of that work but it was
interesting to see that the opac users (largely undergraduate students) had
no issues with simple tasks (web-browsing, document printing) and readily
adapted to the linux/gnome environment.  I had less success with some
linux-based thin clients in more robust word-processing environments though
(seemed to be an issue with lack of open office familiarity).  We actually
tried to conduct a user-satisfaction/perception study but found that our
students did not even recognize that the environment was different as and
such had no positive or negative opinions about the platform.  Have you
gathered any data from users that would show how people react to these
types of platforms?

Erik


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Joshua Cowles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Code4Lib,
>
> First post here but I've been following the mailing list for a while and
> the Journal and planet.code4lib longer.  I just posted a write-up (updating
> one previously posted to libraryhacker.org) about using WebConverger to
> create OPAC kiosks.  I'm hoping to 1) share it with anyone who might find
> it useful and 2) hear feedback from others who are interested in Linux OPAC
> kiosk solutions.  I suspect that some of the people/projects I reference
> may be on this list as well, so feel free to chime in.  There is a disqus
> comment area beneath the write-up:
>
>
> http://blog.jcowles.com/post/36823752885/opac-kiosk-stations-dumping-windows-for-linux
>
> Thanks & I hope to attend the Code4Lib conference for the first time this
> year, so I hope to meet some of you in person soon.
>
> --
> Josh Cowles
> Fond du Lac Public Library
>