Koha Community Newsletter: June 2019
Koha Community Newsletter 
June 2019
Volume 10, Issue 6
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor
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Table of Contents
- Development
- Community
- Upcoming Events
- Past Events
Development
Koha 18.05.13 Released
by Lucas Gass
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.13.
Koha 18.05.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 30 bugfixes.
Community
Community Gossip
The Avenging Chicken goes to Chicago. Fred King has the scoop.
Read the report on KohaCon2019. This is an overview of the event covering expenses, attendance, surveys and other aspects.
Fridolin Somers has a new staff theme plugin you might enjoy. Find out more at Github.
New Koha Libraries
- Teresianischer Karmel in Österreich / Bibliothek (Austria) via Admin Kuhn
- University of North Texas (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- Stratford Library Association (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- North Richland Hills Library (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- Frontier Nursing University Library (USA) via Bywater Solutions
Koha Tips and Tricks
Kelly McElligott shows you the New Responsive Cataloging Update.
Margaret Hade gives you a tour of all the cool open source software featured at KohaCon19.
Andrew Fuerste-Henry has some information for you about Bug 22877, which has been causing issues with fines on lost items.
Koha Power Tech is a YouTube channel with numerous tutorials related to Koha.
Support Provider News
ByWater Solutions has a brief overview of the discussion of Elasticsearch adoption at Kohacon and the ongoing work for those curious about the status of Elasticsearch.
Equinox announces an open source grant.
a program offering in-kind Koha hosting and support to a library or government entity with a collection of 50,000 items or less who lacks the resources to contract for commercial ILS solutions. Applications open August 26, 2019.
More information on the Equinox website
Upcoming Events
July General IRC Meeting
The July General IRC meeting will be held the 10th at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Development IRC Meeting
The July Development IRC meeting will be held the 10th at 14:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
July Documentation IRC Meeting
The July Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 4th at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
French Koha Symposium in Rennes
From Association KohaLa
The French Koha symposium was held from the 17th to the 19th of June in Rennes. There were around 70 people attending. During these 3 days, there was feedback from libraries going live with Koha this last year (association, public libraries and a university library). A special session was dedicated to the use of the discovery tools with Koha (Summon, EDS or Primo). Several presentations were focused on the newest versions of Koha: what’s up in the 19.05 Koha version, introduction to Mana and Koha 18.11 with elastic search. We also spoke about the hottest topics in France: bibliographic changes; GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). There was also feedback on the last KohaCon in Dublin. The third day, we organized workshops: a Urungi demo; design thinking workshop about closed stacks communication; tools to manipulate marc data. And of course, also a lot of coffee breaks and a cocktail to let people meet, discuss, share and reinforce one of the strengths of the Koha Community: collaboration.
June General IRC Meeting
The June General IRC meeting was held the 5th at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
June Documentation IRC Meeting
The June Documentation IRC meeting was held the 6th at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
June Education Meeting
The June Education meeting was held the 27th at 14:00 UTC.
Additional information in this listserv posting.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter