Koha Community Newsletter: November 2015
Koha Community Newsletter 
November 2015
Volume 6, Issue 11
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 3.22 Released
by Tomas Cohen Arazi
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Koha 3.22, a major release of the Koha open source integrated library system.
Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world.
The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org and Koha 3.22 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.22.00.tar.gz
Installation instructions can be found at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 3.22 is a major release, that comes with many new features.
It includes 10 new features, 155 enhancements and 381 bugfixes.
Read the full release notes.
Koha 3.18.12 Released
by Liz Rea
Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world.
The website for the Koha project is http://koha-community.org and Koha 3.18.12 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.18.12.tar.gz
Installation instructions can be found at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 3.18.12 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Read the full release notes.
Koha 3.14.17 Released
by Fridolin Somers
Koha 3.14.17 can be downloaded from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.14.17.tar.gz
Installation instructions can be found at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Installation_Documentation or in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Since 3.22 is going to be released this month, this will be the last 3.14 version.
Koha 3.14.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
Read the full release notes.
Community
New Koha Libraries
- Red River College, Canada, using newly announced Koha Klassmates program for library schools via Bywater Solutions
- Tarneit Senior College, Tarneit, Victoria, Australia via Calyx
- Parkyn Library, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, New Zealand via Calyx
- National Meteorological Library, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia via Calyx
Proposals for NAKUG/KohaNA 2016
by Christopher Davis
The Koha North America User’s Group would like to invite agencies and
libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting
held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of
instructional sessions and presentations, followed by a two day hackfest.
Host expectations:
-Handling meeting registration fee(s)
-Sign contract(s) to secure an appropriate venue for this meeting,
including refreshments, WiFi, video projectors, tables & chairs, etc.
Please submit your proposals for this important meeting by filling out the
form found at: .
Information in your proposal should include (but does not need to be
limited to) the following information:
1. The location and what kind of conference facility would be offered.
Confirm that the site would have internet and other technology available to
enable presentations and general connectivity.
2. Dates when the meeting could occur at the proposed location.
3. Information about transportation — the closest airports and train
stations and how one could get from these places to the meeting site.
4. Lodging in the area.
5. Anything else we would need to know about the location and what makes it
a great choice for this meeting.
Please submit your proposals by Friday,December 4th, 2015. If we receive
multiple proposals we will set up a method for potential attendees to vote
on the preferred meeting location.
Please send your related questions/comments to rhastings at nekls dot org
From the Koha lists — read the original post
Proposals for Kohacon 2017
by Thomas Dukleth
Anyone who would like to host KohaCon17 (international Koha conference
to be held in 2017) should add some brief information about their
proposal to the proposals summary table in the page on the Koha Wiki
which I have prepared following the model used for previous KohaCons,
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon17_Proposals .
Please link your summary proposal to a more detailed proposal preferably
in a new page on the Koha wiki or alternately hosted on your own webserver.
If you have submitted a proposal for hosting KohaCon in the past but had
not been selected, please submit a new proposal if you are interested in
hosting KohaCon17. Do not be discouraged that some other proposal had
been selected over yours in some previous year. People from the
Philippenes had again submitted a KohaCon proposal before the general
KohaCon17 page was created and I have now moved that merely tabular form
content which had used the form of the general KohaCon proposals page to
the newly created general KohaCon17 Proposals page. Such persistence of
pursuing a KohaCon proposal should be encouraged. [In the interest of
promoting regional diversity in Koha, we have sometimes considered rules
against selecting KohaCon proposals from the same region successively in
case the most populous regions might come to excessively dominate voting
for selecting a proposal, but in practise such rules may not have yet
been necessary.]
Anyone should be free to add additional relevant information to proposal
information in the wiki, such as links and information for local hotel
or other accommodations, attractions, etc. We want whatever information
may be helpful for linking to a community wide ballot for selecting a
particular proposal.
As with all wiki content, it should be easy enough to edit by examining
the form in which pre-existing content has been entered, when editing to
add your own content. If you want more information about MediaWiki
tables, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables.
From the Koha lists — read the original post
Support Provider News
BibLibre is sponsoring the IFLA BibLibre International Library Marketing Award.
Bywater Solutions announces Koha Klassmates program for library schools.
Jessica Zairo joins Bywater Solutions as Koha Educator.
Upcoming Events
December General IRC Meeting
The December general IRC meeting will be held on the 4th at 10:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Past Events
Koha Fundraising IRC Meeting
The Koha Fundraising IRC meeting was held on the 2nd of December 2015 at 20:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
November General IRC Meeting
The November general IRC meeting was held on the 4th at 10:00 UTC.
The agenda, links to the minutes, and other information is here.
Editor, Koha Community Newsletter