Home of the Koha Community

February 2nd, 2010 by Galen Charlton 18 comments »

About Koha

Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package. Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world.

About this site

Due to long standing concerns in regards to the management of the koha.org domain, the Koha community decided to establish this website on 2 February 2010 to allow community members to provide information about Koha to users and developers in a timely and collaborative fashion.

The koha-community.org domain is held by the Horowhenua Library Trust, the progenitors of Koha.

The koha-community.org website is committed to
collaboration between all members of the Koha Community.

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8 Weeks ’til KohaCon – Are you registered?

September 1st, 2010 by Nicole C. Engard No comments »

This message came across the mailing list today and so I’m sharing it with all of you who might not be on our list:

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Please forward this to lists or people who will be interested.

KohaCon10 starts on October 25th in Wellington, New Zealand. We have an exciting line up of speakers on a range of topics related to Koha and Open Source and Open Standards in libraries. See our programme for details.

http://www.kohacon10.org.nz/2010/program/

KohaCon10 is a free conference (that is right it will cost nothing for you to attend), but you still need to register to reserve your place.

Registrations from the international Koha community have been very strong. Over half of all available spaces are already taken.

If you have been holding off on the premise that you will have plenty of time to do this later, then please register now. Please do not rely on there being free spaces on the day.

Registration is quick and easy via the website. http://www.kohacon10.org.nz/2010/registration/

We look forward to seeing you in Wellington,

Russel Garlick
on behalf of the KohaCon10 Organising Committee

What is KohaCon10?

KohaCon is an opportunity for the entire Koha community, librarians and developers alike, to come together, meet each other, swap ideas and learn something new.

The conference is split into 2 parts.

The community conference will be held over 3 days – 25-27th of October. This is not just a developer’s conference. There will be presentations from librarians and developers alike.

The second part of the conference is the Hackfest for Koha developers that will be held from 29th-31st of October.

For more information see our website http://www.kohacon10.org.nz.

Book chapters proposals about Koha

August 28th, 2010 by tramullas No comments »

Dear friends:

We are working on the development of a reference book on library automation and opac 2.0, entitled “Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape.” This book will be published by IGI Global in 2011. We believe that you may be interested in participating, so we encourage you to submit proposals about Koha developments and case studies in accordance with the requirements and the thematic areas set out in
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=10166&copyownerid=12444
or
http://igi-global.com/AuthorsEditors/AuthorEditorResources/CallForBookChapters/CallForChapterDetails.aspx?CallForContentId=4ae6e1c4-904b-4d83-8a4a-9ece2171fccb

Thanks for your attention,

Jesús

Koha Newsletter: Volume 1/Issue 8: August 2010

August 15th, 2010 by Nicole C. Engard No comments »

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
Volume 1, Issue 8: August 2010

Table of Contents

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Working on the 3.2 Manual

July 20th, 2010 by Liz Rea 3 comments »

You may notice some inconsistencies with the 3.2 manual while I work on it this week.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Koha Newsletter: Volume 1/Issue 7: July 2010

July 15th, 2010 by Nicole C. Engard No comments »

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
Volume 1, Issue 7: July 2010

Table of Contents

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Koha 3.2 beta released

June 25th, 2010 by Galen Charlton No comments »

I have released the beta of Koha 3.2. The release tarball can be downloaded from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz

Checksums and signatures to verify the download can be retrieved from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz.sig
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz.MD5.asc
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.00-beta.tar.gz.MD5

A list of the bugs patched since the release of the second alpha can be found in the email announcing the beta release.  I would like to thank all who have been working on closing bugs, and I would like to give a special tip of my hat to Lars Wirzenius for his work on the Debian packaging of Koha and to Katrin Fischer for enhancing the German localization of Koha and working on other translation glitches.

At this point, I am declaring a string freeze with the following exceptions:

  • forward ports from 3.0.x (for which translated strings can
    presumably be grabbed from the 3.0.x translations)
  • remaining 3.2 release blockers.

Development Statistics for May 2010

June 20th, 2010 by Chris Cormack No comments »

This is just looking at the master branch (what is soon to be 3.2.0)

199 Commits
22 different Authors
A total of 5046 lines added, 2374 removed (delta 2672)

You can see more statistics at http://git.koha-community.org/stats/koha-master/

Koha Newsletter: Volume 1/Issue 6: June 2010

June 15th, 2010 by Nicole C. Engard No comments »

Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
Volume 1, Issue 6: June 2010

Table of Contents

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The first Koha Librarian – Honoured today

June 7th, 2010 by Chris Cormack 2 comments »

Every year in New Zealand on the Queen’s Birthday weekend, New Zealanders who have provided service to the community are honoured. In this years honours list Rosalie Blake, who was the head librarian at Horowhenua Library Trust when Koha was written, was honoured with a QSM (Queen’s Service Medal).

Rosalie Helen Blake, Levin, for services to the library profession

I’m sure the whole Koha community will congratulate her on a well deserved award.

KohaCon 10 Roadtrip – Signup Now!

June 6th, 2010 by jransom 1 comment »

Now is the time folks to put your money where your mouth is and sign up for the road trip from Auckland to Wellington on the weekend before KohaCon.

Click here for details of the trip.

Signup

Please copy the headings below into an email and send it to: jransom@library.org.nz with  KohaCon Roadtrip in the subject line:

  • Name/s of people,
  • Arrival in Auckland details:  carrier and flight number, date and time,
  • Accommodation preferences: share twin / double / single (surcharge will apply) and who you want to share with (if known,
  • Which nights you want accommodation for in Auckland.

Deposit


$NZD 200 per person deposit is required to secure place on the road trip. Can be made my Paypal but please add $NZ 4.50 Paypal commission per $100 because someone has to pay it and I havn’t added any padding to the trip costs.