Koha Community Newsletter: January 2020

Koha Community Newsletter
January 2020

Volume 11, Issue 1
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Development
Community
Upcoming Events
Past Events

Development

Koha 19.11.02 Released

by Joy Nelson
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.02.

This is a maintenance release which includes 13 enhancements, 48 bugfixes

The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-02-release/

Debian packages will be updated within a few days.

Koha 19.05.07 Released

by Lucas Gass
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.05.07.

Koha 19.05.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 8 enhancements, 42 bugfixes.

The full release notes are available at:

Koha 19.05.07 Release

Debian packages will be available soon.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Koha 18.11.13 Released

by Hayley Mapley
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.13.

Koha 18.11.13 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancement, 16 bugfixes.

The full release notes are available at:

Koha 18.11.13 released

Community

Community Announcements

Marcel de Rooy blogs about the history and use of Koha at the Rijksmuseum over the last 10 years.
Stefano Bargioni writes about persistent identifiers, RDA and AuthorityBox in a paper recently published in JLIS.
Drama, intrique, rattlesnakes …and poultry! koha-US 2019: Fred and the Avenging Chicken go to Pueblo, Colorado

New Koha Libraries

Koha Tips and Tricks

Kelly McElligott and Jessie Zairo have added some great new tutorials to their Monday Minutes series:

Kelly McElligot has some great Koha training resources for you. Pre Training Handouts.

Support Provider News

ByWater Solutions Announces Support of Aspen Discovery for Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC).

Join Equinox on Twitter, #ChatOpenS, February 19, 2020, 12-1pm EDT. They’ll be discussing the life cycle of an open source feature.

Upcoming Events

Global Bug Squashing Day – February 14th 2020

At the last Koha Developers Meeting, it was proposed that we bring back
regular Global Bug Squashing Day events to help keep the bug queue moving
along and encourage more people to get involved.

As such, we are arranging such a day to take place on the 14th of February.
We hope to see some new names added to the list of contributors: Testing,
Signoff, Quality Assurance, Patch Writing, Documentation additions all
count, and there will be friendly developers available to help throughout
the day on IRC !

If you have always wanted to get involved now is a good time, so spin up a
devbox, try out a sandbox, or just visit us in IRC and ask everything you
wanted to know about Koha and we will help as best as we can.

Please see
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2020-02-14_Global_bug_squashing_day for
more information.

from the Koha Listserv

Hackfest 2020 in Marseille, registrations are open!

by Paul Poulain
almost everything is in the title : you can register for the hackfest by
sending me an email.

As announced previously, it will take place in BibLibre office,
Marseille, France, March 23-27

Some explanations for those who need them:

the hackfest is NOT a developer week. it’s a week for anyone willing
to contribute to Koha, whatever the kind of contribution (testing,
documenting, …)
the hackfest is free of charge (but you’ll have to deal with your
traveling costs, of course)
you can come for 5 days, or less. Don’t come for 1 day, it’s
useless. coming for 2 days is very frustrating. Coming for 3 to 5
days is perfect !
40-45 ppl fit in our office. If we’re more than this, we’ll have to
book an additional room [thanks to the company just next door] So
register as soon as possible
there’s no schedule, everyone comes with it’s own
ideas/goals/expectations
that’s not a training session
if you need an official invitation, just ask by email

from the Koha Dev Listserv

Kohacon20 registrations open!

by Chris Cormack
Kia ora

Ngā mihi o te tau hou pākehā. Happy New year.

New year, new conference news! We had a ton of great submissions for talks, and we are working on a draft programme now. But we have opened registrations for the conference. https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/registration/

Bearing in mind there is no conference fee, please only register if you are planning to attend. Or if circumstances change so you can’t attend please let us know. There is finite capacity at the venue and we would hate to turn away people and have empty seats.

That being said, we would love to see you there, go forth and register 🙂

from the Koha Listserv