Archive for May, 2009
Te Po Atarau has arrived
On perhaps the coldest day of the year so far, son number two decided it would be a great time to arrive. So after Laurel woke up at 4am, by 5.30am we decided it was time to head into the hospital. By 7am, Laurel was 6cm dilated and at 10.29am Te Po Atarau William Creed [...]
In: Seedbaby · Tagged with: te po atarau
Safari day
Kahurangi’s daycare had a safari themed day, so his mum dressed him up as an entomologist. (Not into dressing kids up in camo gear) Related Posts:I’ll just eat the drumsticks, thanks!Wellington Phoenix Open DayTaniwhaI just want to eat my snacksKahuisms
In: Crayon · Tagged with: Kahurangi
Kahurangi sleeps over with Manaia
On Saturday we took Kahurangi out to sleep over with his cousin Manaia. It was the first time he has slept at his Aunty and Uncle’s house, and it went pretty well. From what Donna has said they had a lot of fun and some pretty funny quotes came out of it. One of the [...]
In: Crayon · Tagged with: Kahurangi
Koha in Africa
I spotted that there is going to be another Koha workshop in Kenya next week. This will be the second workshop to be held. I hope it goes well, and I hope as Translation Manager we can get some more African Translations of Koha on http://translate.koha.org Related Posts:Koha in MalawiKoha in Uganda
In: Koha · Tagged with: Africa, kenya
Unsung Heroes of Koha – 10
The Staff at Horowhenua Library Trust Most people familiar with the Koha ILS will have heard of Rosalie Blake and Joann Ransom from HLT who played the biggest roles in creating Koha. What people probably won’t have thought about is all the other librarians and staff at HLT who all played major roles in the [...]
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Koha Unsung Heroes – Part 9
Anthony Mao I’m not exactly sure when Anthony first became involved in Koha, I know it was before 2006 when he contributed a Chinese translation of Paul Poulains Logiciel documentaire. Anthony is a big part of the koha-taiwan group, which provides numerous resources in Chinese. He has played a big part in getting Koha installed [...]
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Unsung Koha Heroes – Part 8
Roger Buck Although Roger Buck was the 10th and first Australian committer to Koha, his real claim to fame was setting up and maintaining the first Koha wiki. But more than that, he actually put a lot of content on it. He set the wiki up on the 20th of March 2002, and it lived [...]
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False alert
Our new son is proving to be a contrary one already. Last night he pretended that he was ready to arrive, pretty much all night, then decided nope, not yet. That plus the, I won’t show you what gender I am until you have decided you want to wait and be suprised, stunt he pulled [...]
In: Seedbaby · Tagged with: te po atarau
Unsung heroes of Koha part 7
Nicolas Rosasco – The first documentation manager Nicolas first got involved in Koha way back in 2001, and by October 2001 had started work on a FAQ, some of which still remains on the koha wiki (its been shifted a couple of times) and on the koha.org site. Apart from trying to collaborate and wrangle [...]
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Unsung Koha Heroes – Part 6
Mike Mylonas Mike Mylonas first became involved with Koha in early 2002, a fellow Wellingtonian, Mike was influential in moving his workplace towards free software. Mike was the 12th committer to Koha, and while he doesn’t have a large amount of commits to his name, one thing he can certainly be proud of is the [...]
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