Koha Community Newsletter: March 2019

Koha Community Newsletter
March 2019

Volume 10, Issue 3
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Chad Roseburg, Koha Community Newsletter Editor

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Development
Community
Upcoming Events
Past Events

Development

Announcing Urungi, business intelligence made easy for Koha

by Paul Poulain Development Listserv Posting

BibLibre is working for a while on a new tool to build statistics &
dashboard (http://www.urungi.org) to complete the Koha reports module
(Unix philosophy : 1 tool for 1 thing).

We still have many things on our roadmap
(https://kanboard.biblibre.com/public/board/fc524fef4df4404a551f2315511d15d384f4d36ad99c7e36bd05155ed037).
What exist works well though

What’s next for the Koha community & developers ?

play a bit with our demo platform:
https://demo-urungi.biblibre.com/#/home (test/test), linked to a
koha DB (French inside !)
give it a try : https://github.com/biblibre/urungi/
you’ll need to create layers for Koha. The good news is that we
already have made some for you. The bad news is that we made it in
French. So, just ask, I’ll send it to you, translate to English, the
Koha community will thank you 😉
the “hidden” feature : URL #/export => export anything from Urungi
#/import => import anything into Urungi
share your layers, dashboards, …
join the fun, submit pull requests, …

PS: if anyone is using Mantis as support platform, we’re also creating
layers&dashboards for Mantis. Next will probably be Coral.

PS2: if anyone is willing to sponsor some features, we’re open, as usual.

Koha 18.11.04 Released

by Martin Renvoize
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.11.04.

This is a maintenance release and contains 3 new features, 5 enhancements, 84 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Koha 18.05.11 Released

by Lucas Gass
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.11.

Koha 18.05.11 is a bugfix/maintenance release. It includes 2 enhancements, 41 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Koha 17.11.17 Released

by Fridolin Somers
The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 17.11.17

Koha 17.11.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 7 bugfixes.

Read the full release notes

Community

KohaCon19 Update

From Charles Quain Listserv post
Dear Koha Community

On behalf of the organizing group, I am sending another update on the
preparations for KohaCon19.

The schedule for talks and workshops is now full.

We are delighted to announce that Ken Chad will be our Keynote speaker giving a paper titled “Community, openness and directions for library technology” to open the conference on Monday 20th May.

We are also excited to inform you that a representative from Elastic Search will give a lengthy workshop on Thursday 23rd.

We are finalising the details of the conference schedule and will publish it shortly.

111 delegates have signed up for the conference so far. There is plenty of room for more!

Community Gossip

Speaking of KohaCon19 …Chris Cormack has started a page https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Kohacon19/Social,

“Where people can record their flight times and perhaps make some plans for social events.
Please feel free to add to it.”

Original Listserv Post

New Koha Libraries

Koha Tips and Tricks

Kelley McElligot has some new tutorials for you:

Jessie Zairo shows you the new system preference in 18.11: AdditionalFieldsInZ3950ResultSearch.