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Posted by Galen Charlton, Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:50:05 +0000

February 8th, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nathan Curulla (888) 900-8944 staff@bywatersolutions.com Solanco School District Partners with ByWater Solutions for Koha Support ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that The Solanco School District, covering Southern Lancaster County, PA has partnered with them for support of the community version of the Koha integrated library system. Solanco [...]

Posted by Nathan A. Curulla, Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:56:00 +0000

If you are planning on attending Kohacon10 in Wellington later this year, please go to http://kohacon.appspot.com/2010/registration/ to register. Registration is free but we do need to know numbers. If you wish to donate to help with running costs there is a paypal button as well. Space is limited so please register only if you are coming.

Posted by rangi, Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:28:18 +0000

With all the of the recent vendor news related to Koha, there seems to be an assumption that the members of the Koha Community are lost and in turmoil. I’m here to tell you that is just not the case! Earlier this week we met for one of our monthly IRC meetings to discuss where [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:40:14 +0000

This just in from Galen Charlton, Koha 3.2 Release Manager: I’m calling a general bug squashing session all day on Wednesday, 10 February for us to hack on Koha 3.2 and fix bugs. Please join us on #koha (server irc.katipo.co.nz) for the festivities. Virtual pizza is on offer – don’t miss it! This means we’ll [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:51:05 +0000

[ February 10, 2010; ] Join us in #koha (server irc.katipo.co.nz) all day on Wednesday, 2/10/2010 for a general bug squashing for 3.2 Don't have an IRC client? That's ok, just use our Mibbit widget to connect directly to our channel through your browser.

Posted by Galen Charlton, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:01:06 +0000

Tarballs of Koha 3.2 alpha are now available for download. Two versions are available; the first is a compact version that includes the PO files for translations but doesn’t expand them into koha-tmpl, while the second version is the traditional full package that includes every language. Because the full package is ten times larger than [...]

Posted by Galen Charlton, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:23:54 +0000

At last night’s #koha community hand-over meeting, it was felt that the LL/PTFS transfer could easily delay community control of the previous koha website for 3 months, so HLT should register a fan site for community members to put the latest Koha news and information on the web. So welcome to Koha-community.org which will mainly be [...]

Posted by MJ Ray, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:19:43 +0000

Yesterday we had one of our monthly meetings – this one about handing over Koha assests to the Horowhenua Library Trust, the group we all voted should look out of the interests of Koha for the community. One of the assets we’re still waiting on is the koha.org domain name. Due to recent [...]

Posted by Nicole, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:09:33 +0000

This message came over the Koha mailing list today from our release manager, Galen Charlton. In short, Koha 3.2 Alpha will be available for download by the end of the week!!! I have tagged v3.02.00-alpha in Git, thereby kicking off the alpha period for 3.2. The corresponding DB revision is 3.01.00.111; I’ll switch the [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:38:28 +0000

[ March 2, 2010; 11:00 am; ] The next Koha community handover meeting is scheduled for 11:00 UTC+0 on Tuesday, 2 March 2010 on the #koha IRC channel (server irc.katipo.co.nz). The agenda can be found on the Koha wiki.

Posted by Galen Charlton, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:01:59 +0000

[ February 15, 2010; 9:00 pm; 9:00 pm; 9:00 pm; 9:00 pm; ] Russel Garlick has called an IRC meeting for KohaCon 2010 planning at 10:00 NZDT on Tuesday, 16 Feburary 2010 (AKA 21:00 UTC+0 on Monday, 15 February): Thanks to all who have offered to help out with KohaCon 2010. http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:kohacon2010:volunteers We will be having our first IRC meeting for all conference volunteers at 10am Tuesday 16th of Feb in [...]

Posted by Galen Charlton, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:44:53 +0000

I have tagged v3.02.00-alpha in Git, thereby kicking off the alpha period for 3.2. The corresponding DB revision is 3.01.00.111; I’ll switch the DBrev to 3.02.00.000 for the beta. I will prepare a tarball tomorrow. At this point, 3.2 is feature complete and development should now be in pure bugfixing mode. Only the following types of [...]

Posted by Galen Charlton, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:24:02 +0000

[ October 25, 2010 9:00 am to November 2, 2010 5:00 pm. ] To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Koha, we would like to invite the world to Wellington. Here is your chance to the meet the folks from the original Koha library and have a drink with them. See the Official KohaCon10 Website for more information Dates October 25 - November 2 2010 3 day conference followed by a hackfest Venues Conference [...]

Posted by Liz Rea, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:15:10 +0000

<p></p> <p>Due to continuing issues related to Liblime's retention of the Koha website, the community of Koha users decided to set up a new website for now. &nbsp;So, until further notice, the place to go for official Koha news is&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://koha-community.org/">http://koha-community.org/</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Posted by Lori Bowen Ayre, Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:53:27 +0000

[ February 9, 2010; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] The next general IRC meeting of the Koha project will be held on Tuesday, 9 February 2010 at 11:00 UTC+0. See the meeting wiki page for more information. Connect to the #koha channel on irc.katipo.co.nz to participate.

Posted by Galen Charlton, Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:18:19 +0000

Due to long standing concerns in regards to the management of the koha.org domain, the Koha community decided to establish this website on 2 February 2010 to allow community members to provide information about Koha to users and developers in a timely and collaborative fashion. It is our hope that this is only a [...]

Posted by Galen Charlton, Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:18:33 +0000

February 1st, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nathan Curulla (888) 900-8944 staff@bywatersolutions.com America&#8217;s First Public Koha Library Chooses ByWater Solutions ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that Nelsonville Public Library, serving Athens County, Ohio since 1935, has partnered with them for the implementation of Koha, the open source integrated library system. Nelsonville has contracted with [...]

Posted by Nathan A. Curulla, Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:34:12 +0000

I took a webinar on Zotero taught by Jason Puckett earlier this month and since then I have been playing a bit more with it. I installed the beta release of version 2.0 which includes the ability to share libraries and store data online. This means that you can see my public library by [...]

Posted by Nicole C. Engard, Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:44:50 +0000

Today, ByWater Solutions &#038; Nelsonville Public Library (NPL) have announced that NPL will be using ByWater for support for their Koha installation. Now that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about. You want to stay silent and let your actions speak for you &#8211; awesome!! I couldn&#8217;t be happier for the folks at NPL who [...]

Posted by Nicole, Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:08:06 +0000

Posted by Lori Bowen Ayre, Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:30:26 +0000

<p>BibLibre participera au symposium Koha organisé par la Médiathèque Intercommunale Ouest Provence, en collaboration avec l’association Kohala, du 27 et 28 mai 2010, à la médiathèque de Miramas.</p> <p>Nous y interviendrons, avec beaucoup d'autres, sur plusieurs sujets:</p> <ul> <li>un historique de Koha par Paul Poulain</li> <li>les outils de gestion et d'organisation communautaires utilisés pour le développement de Koha. Henri-Damien Laurent fera un topo là-dessus</li> <li>pour ma part, je participerai à une table ronde sur la question des modèles économiques autour de Koha, d'une part, et je ferais un topo sur l'intégration de Koha avec un CMS, en l'espèce Drupal</li> </ul> <p>Cocnernant les conditions d’organisation, vous trouverez toutes les informations nécessaires sur le site <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://docmiop.wordpress.com/symposium-koha/">http://docmiop.wordpress.com/symposium-koha/</a>.</p>

Posted by nicomo, Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:02:17 +0000

<p>BibLibre and Libriotech are pleased to announce a partnership to provide support for Koha, Evergreen and other Open Source Software in Norway.<br /> Open Source software, Koha in particular, has an increasingly strong presence in the library market, with many libraries contracting for support and other services through BibLibre. The partnership between BibLibre and Libriotech provides a local company to assist Norwegian libraries with Koha and other OSS implementations as well as technical support.<br /> BibLibre and Libriotech will be available to jointly answer the questions libraries have about Koha and OSS at the 72nd Norwegian Library Conference in Hamar in March 2010.</p> <p>Nicolas Morin, CEO of BibLibre, says "This partnership with Libriotech is important for us: we are now able to provide services really tailored to the needs of Norwegian libraries. Libriotech is a natural partner for us: a small company with a proven track record with Koha already. We've been able to exchange ideas and some projects with Norwegian libraries during the past year, and we felt Libriotech provided us with the opportunity to go to the next level and tackle bigger projects with these libraries."</p> <p>Magnus Enger, CEO of Libriotech, says "Libriotech has begun establishing itself, and Koha, as a serious alternative in the Norwegian library marketplace with a few first clients, including the high profile Naval Academy Library in Bergen, run by Norwegian librarian, blogger and author Thomas Brevik (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lib1point5.wordpress.com/" title="http://lib1point5.wordpress.com/">http://lib1point5.wordpress.com/</a>). Partnering with a company like BibLibre gives the advantage of instant access to their deep knowledge and years of experience with Open Source Software for libraries in general and Koha in particular, and I'm excited about the opportunity that gives us to help OSS grow in Norwegian libraries."</p> <p>About BibLibre<br /> BibLibre is the leader of Open Source solutions for Libraries, based in Europe. Koha was created in 2000 as the first Open Source Integrated Library System: our early involvement with the project gave us an extended knowledge of librarianship and the needs of librarians in the age of omnipresent internet and open data. Building on this expertise, we now provide a range of services to libraries: we develop, host, support open source software for libraries worldwide.<br /> To learn more, see <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.biblibre.com/english" title="http://www.biblibre.com/english">http://www.biblibre.com/english</a></p> <p>About Libriotech<br /> Libriotech was founded by librarian Magnus Enger in June 2009, in order to provide services related to Open Source Software for libraries in Norway, with an initial focus on Koha. Services will include installation/hosting, migration of data, training, maintenance and development.<br /> For more information about Libriotech, see <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://libriotech.no/" title="http://libriotech.no/">http://libriotech.no/</a></p>

Posted by nicomo, Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:00:26 +0000

January 25th, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Nathan Curulla (888) 900-8944 staff@bywatersolutions.com ByWater Solutions Partners with the Farmington Libraries for Koha Installation and Support ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that The Farmington Libraries, of Farmington, CT. has partnered with them for the implementation of the open source community version of the Koha integrated [...]

Posted by Nathan A. Curulla, Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:46:30 +0000