Owen specialises in UI and UX work and writes a blog that is invaluable to anyone working on Koha look and feel.  What makes it even cooler is that Owen works for a library, not one of the many Koha support companies. That not only makes Owen cool, but it makes his library super cool for understanding the more you put into Koha, the more you get out.

So thank you Owen, thank you to your family, and to Athens County Public Libraries.

• 129 bugs/enhancements were marked signed off
• 13 were marked Patch doesn’t apply
• 38 Failed QA
• 105 Passed QA
• 80 were Pushed to master
• 98 were marked Resolved

Here are the people who did the sign offs

• Chris Cormack – 28
• Katrin Fischer – 14
• Jared Camins-Esakov – 12
• Liz Rea – 9
• Nicole C. Engard – 8
• Ian Walls – 8
• Alex Arnaud – 7
• Paul Poulain – 5
• Jonathan Druart – 5
• Owen Leonard – 4
• Kyle M Hall – 4
• Marc Veron – 3
• Mason James – 3
• delaye – 3
• Chris Nighswonger – 3
• Marcus Enger – 2
• M. de Rooy – 2
• Marijana Glavica – 2
• Robin Sheat – 2
• Dobrica Pavlinusic – 2
• Elliott Davis – 1
• Galen Charlton – 1
• Frederic Demians – 1

• Processed 1087 changesets from 71 developers
• 26 employers found
• A total of 1587389 lines added, 1273852 removed (delta 313537)

One of my personal favourites is the 15 patches from the Catalyst Academy students.

And for those who have the means, you can provide sponsorship.

• 212 bug fixes/enhancements were signed off
• 36 marked patch does not apply
• 172 Passed QA
• 98 Failed QA
• 154 Pushed to Master

And who were the people who did the sign offs?

1. Jared Camins-Esakov  – 34
2. Katrin Fischer – 19
3. Nicole C. Engard – 13
4. Liz Rea – 12
5. Owen Leonard – 11
6. Alex Arnaud – 10
7. Matthias Meusburger  – 9
8. Marc Veron – 8
9. MathildeF – 7
10. delaye – 6
11. Kristina Hoeppner – 6
12. Magnus Enger – 6
13. Chris Cormack – 6
14. Julian Maurice – 6
15. M. de Rooy – 6
16. Koha Team Lyon 3 – 6
17. Ian Walls – 5
18. Julien Sicot – 4
19. Pierre Angot – 4
20. jmbroust – 3
21. Elliott Davis – 3
22. Paul Poulain – 3
23. Marijana Glavica – 3
24. Adrien SAURAT- 3
25. laurenthdl -
26. MJ Ray (software.coop) – 2
27. Jonathan Druart – 2
28. Dobrica Pavlinusic – 2
29. Corinne BULAC  – 1
30. Srdjan Jankovic – 1
31. Shane Sammons – 1
32. Leila – 1
33. Melia Meggs – 1
34. Marc Balmer – 1
35. Robin Sheat – 1
36. Francois Charbonnier – 1
37. Frederic Demians – 1

To make it webscale and cloud ready, respecting both the nimbus and cumulus standards we rewrote everything in aspx, which we then pre compiled into cobol.  We also decided to replace the RDBMS layer with Oracle and sqlite.  This has the side effect of needing 872 GB of HD to install, but we feel the lack in performance, flexibility and loss of freedom is well worth it to be buzzword compliant.

It doesn’t matter how correct you are if the way you communicate only serves to alienate those you seek to persuade.

Koha has fortunately been quite lucky in this regard 99% of the people involve understand that the project is about far more than code and that people are what really matters.

But it can happen anywhere even occasionally with Koha. It’s even more unfortunate when it is a goal people agree is well worth it. So people agree with the message but the delivery of it only serves to make people less likely to listen.

I think it’s another example of how lucky we are in the Koha community to have people with a very diverse range of backgrounds, from people in Monasteries fixing security issues to Scouts installing Koha for a merit badge. The community is a great place to be.

• Zotero

This is free software, so of course it should be any rational person’s first choice. To use Koha with Zotero just point your web browser to the page, and Zotero will automatically recognize the citation.

If for some mad reason you have to use proprietary software, Koha also supports

• Endnote

To use Koha with Endnote download the record in “RIS” format. Depending on how your system is set up, Endnote might automatically import the file. Otherwise, you can import your citation by opening Endnote and selecting File->Import and then locating your file.

• Refworks

With RefWorks you have two options. The first is to use the script described at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Add_direct_export_to_RefWorks_link_to_OPAC – this is the easiest way for the patron, and is very easy to set up. Second, you can download the record in “RIS” format, similar to the way you did for Endnote, then choose “References,” “Import,” set Import filter to “RIS Format” and Database to “RIS Format UTF-8,” and select the text file.

There are numerous other citation managers as well, most of which will support importing from either BibTeX or RIS files. So as you can see the latest official releases of Koha support multiple citation management systems, which is a very useful tool for Academic and Special libraries.