Koha Community Newsletter: June 2016

Koha Community Newsletter
June 2016

Volume 7, Issue 6
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Table of Contents

• Development
  • Koha 3.20.12 Released
  • Koha 3.22.8 Released
  • Koha 16.05.01 Released
• Community
  • New Koha Libraries
  • Community Gossip
  • How To
• Upcoming Events
  • Koha-US 2016 Meeting
  • July General IRC Meeting
  • July Development IRC Meeting
• Past Events
  • Kohacon16: Streamed Live!!!
  • June General IRC Meeting

Development

Koha 3.20.12 Released

by Chris Cormack
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.20.12.
Koha 3.20.12 is a securty and bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 16 bugfixes.

Packages should be available soon.

You can read the release notes here.

Koha 3.22.12 Released

by Julian Maurice
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 3.22.8.

Koha 3.22.8 is a security release.

It includes 2 security fixes, 49 bugfixes and 7 enhancements.

The full release notes are available at
koha-3.22.8 Release Notes

Koha 16.05.01 Released

by Frédéric Demians
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Koha 16.05.01, a
maintenance release of the Koha open source integrated library system.

The full release notes are available at
koha 16.05.01 Release Notes.

Community

New Koha Libraries

• Daniel Morgan Academy Library, DC (USA) via ByWater Solutions
• Stratford University Library, VA (USA) via ByWater Solutions

Community Gossip

Proposals are being accepted for KohaCon 2017.
Joy Nelson writes about using FOSS.
Joann Ransom is going on a Round the World Koha Speaking Tour!. See her itinerary.

Posts on KohaCon16

Matthias Meusburger posted his KohaCon 2016 pictures. zip file here.

From Rocio Dressler

• KohaCon16: You have the power
• My First KohaCon

Brenden Gallagher discusses Chris Cormack’s KohaCon16 talk about growing the Koha community.

From Chris Cormack

• Kohacon16 Day 3 – Working towards a Koha Greek Users’ Group
• Kohacon16 Day 3 – 10 years of Koha in Greece: from solitude to solidarity?
• Kohacon16 Day3 – A new open source library platform: building and integrating microservices
• Kohacon16 Day 3 – Managing digital and physical collections: interfacing Coral and Koha
• Kohacon16 Day 3 – Largest Koha Installation, Experiences of 1126 Public Libraries of Turkey
• Kohacon16 Day 3 – Koha Sandboxes
• Kohacon16 Day 3 – BIBFRAME: MARC replacement and much more!
• Kohacon16 Day 2 – Koha and Books: the YBP Advantage
• Kohacon16 Day 2 – Koha in FEMM-TH Library. An Open Source Integrated Library System experience
• Kohacon16 Day 2 – Koha Implementation projects: An Experience from PakistanIncreasing traceability of physical library items through Koha: the case of SELIDAKohacon16 Day 2 – Migrating to Koha. University of Macedonia Library Experience
• Kohacon16 Day 2 – How a local Koha users association can promote and support Koha
• Kohacon16 Day 2 – Promoting Koha the Open Source Way: the Koha Gruppo Italiano
• Kohacon16 Day 2 – Koha International Fund
• Kohacon16 Day 2 – Koha Community Organisation

How To

• Nick Clemens shows you how to set up the Koha Coverflow Plugin.
• Ed Veal demonstrates how to browse for existing call numbers when editing/adding items using the new call number browser feature.
• Jesse Zairo shows you what’s new in reports and serials in Koha 3.22.

Upcoming Events

Koha-US 2016 Meeting

Date

Aug 3rd to the 6th

Location

Monterey, CA (at the public library)

Registration Fee

$20 approx. Exact amount TBA

More info

Koha-US Wiki: 2016 annual meeting

July General IRC Meeting

The July general IRC meeting will be held on the 6th 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 on the 13th at 14:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.

Past Events

Kohacon16: Streamed Live!!!

If you weren’t able to make it to Greece this year you can still catch the presentations — they will be streamed live!.

Where?

Thessaloniki, Greece

When?

May 30th to June 4th 2016

To watch the presentations via live streaming video, head over to http://kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr/ May 30th.

June General IRC Meeting

The June general IRC meeting was held on the 8th at 10:00 UTC.

The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.