Koha Community Newsletter: July 2019
Koha Community Newsletter 
July 2019
Volume 10, Issue 7
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 18.05.14 Released
by Liz Rea
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.14.
Koha 18.05.14 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 5 bugfixes.
Koha 19.05.02 Released
by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.05.02.
Koha 19.05.02 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 1 enhancement, 30 bugfixes.
Koha 18.11.08 Released
by Lucas Gass
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.08.
Koha 18.11.08 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 17 bugfixes.
Community
Community Gossip
Todd Goatley-Seals had a great time at KohaCon 2019 and shares his experiences with you.
New Koha Libraries
- Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma (Germany) via Admin Kuhn
- OPAC Kristianstad University Library (Sweden) via Kristianstad University Library, The Swedish Koha User Group and Libriotech
- Uxbridge and Harrow College HCUC (UK) via PTFS Europe
- Colorado College Tutt Library (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- Sterling College Mabee Library (USA) via Bywater Solutions
- Utah Valley University Fulton Library (USA) via Bywater Solutions
Koha Tips and Tricks
Kelly McElligott created some new tutorials for you:
- How to add an Accelerated Reading Level and Accelerated Reading Point Search in Koha.
- Creating a Public List in Koha
Lucas Gass explains how to configure your receipts to Show Library Cost Savings.
Nick Clemens has some updates on the popular coverflow OPAC plugin for you.
Kelley McElligott and Jessie Zairo team up to deliver some new Koha tutorials:
- Using Lists to Populate your Coverflow on the OPAC
- Monday Minutes: the Leader in Marc Records
- Monday Minutes: Submitting a Bug in Buzilla
Jessie Zairo shows you some cool new ways you can tweak Koha’s hold slips.
Andrew Fuerste-Henry discusses how you can use the Template Toolkit to customize notice triggers and breaks down the various item statuses in Koha.
Support Provider News
Equinox announced a new monthly Twitter Chat.
Description:
It is a monthly Twitter Chat for networking and brainstorming beyond our respective open source projects. While not Koha specific we are hoping to attract members of the Koha community so we can better collaborate on issues that affect open source and libraries generally. Past topics have included jargon, data migrations, ethics and patron privacy. Our next one is August 7, 12-1pm EDT. Past examples of our chats can be found in our Twitter Moments.
Upcoming Events
Hackfest 2019, registration open!!!
by Paul Poulain
From the Development Listserv
Once again, BibLibre is happy to invite Koha users and developers for a week of fun, working on Koha for improving it’s quality !
*Dates* : September 30th – October 4th. Anyone is welcomed any day: it’s not required to come the whole week. But a minimum of 2 consecutive day is needed to be able to do something useful
*Location*: 108 rue Breteuil, F-13006 Marseille
*Who is invited* : anyone willing to contribute to Koha, you don’t need to be a developer to join us ! There is a lot of useful things a librarian can do much better than a developer, like testing, documenting.
*How to register* : drop me an email
*How much does it cost* : nothing (you’ll have to deal with your traveling fees though, and we organize the lunch, with a fee of 15-17€ per day)
*Last but not least* => come with your swimsuit, the sea is usually welcoming in September/early October 😀
2019 Koha-US Annual Conference: September 2019
From the Koha US announcement on their website. See the website for more info.
The koha-US 2019 Conference will be held in Pueblo Colorado September 18th-21st 2019.
Our theme for the 2019 conference will be:
Patron Power – Enable Your Users
It will be hosted by Pueblo City/County Library District.
100 E. Abriendo Ave., Pueblo, CO 81004
The cost for the conference will by $35.00 for members and $55.00 for non-members.
*Due to low registration fees, registration for presenters will not be waived.
Please e-mail info@koha-us.org if you have any questions.
Pānui Kohacon2020 | Kohacon2020 Announcement
by Kathryn Tyree
From the General Listserv
Kia ora koutou katoa | Greetings to you all,
Nau mai haere mai ki te Kohacon Aotearoa o te tau rua mano rua tekau! | We
warmly welcome you to Kohacon in New Zealand in 2020!
Kohacon2020 will be a 7 day programme running from 19 – 25 October 2020,
starting with the 3 day conference.
We have a website set up at: https://2020.kohacon.org/ and will additionally
announce all major news, such as talk submission dates, here on the mail list
and on twitter: @nzkoha
If you have any questions, or want to be part of the organising team, please
email koha…@catalyst.net.nz and feel free to ask Chris Cormack or I
directly.
We look forward to welcoming all old and new friends next year.
Nā mātou noa, nā, Koha team at Catalyst NZ
August General IRC Meeting
The August General IRC meeting will be held the 14th at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
August Development IRC Meeting
The August Development IRC meeting will be held the 7th at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
August Documentation IRC Meeting
The August Documentation IRC meeting will be held the 1st at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
July General IRC Meeting
The July General IRC meeting was 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 was 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 was held the 4th at 13:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter