koha-community.org

Today in a community meeting in irc it was decided to continue on with the koha-community.org domain and begin migrating things other than just the website to it.
From the email from Galen
The log of the meeting can be found at
http://stats.workbuffer.org/irclog/koha/2010-03-02#i_403276
I recommend that all members of the Koha community read through this
carefully.  Highlights of the meeting [...]

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 11:02 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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New release of the Koha Live CD

From Miztik’s site
This release adds the much-requested Zebra support and updates Koha to 3.0.5. You don’t need to configure anything, as I have pre-configured zebra daemons to start automatically and added the crontab for indexing, which will be there as soon as the Live CD starts up. You do need to select to use Zebra [...]

Posted on March 2, 2010 at 7:23 am by Chris · Permalink · One Comment
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New Koha developer at Catalyst

Yesterday patches from Will were accepted into the Koha repository by the release Manager. That now makes 3 people working at Catalyst with patches in Koha. I’m hoping to make that at least 6 in the next month or so
Related Posts:koha-community.orgNew release of the Koha Live CDKohacon10 registrations openFull git stats for KohaKoha [...]

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:32 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Kohacon10 registrations open

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.
Related Posts:Venue [...]

Posted on February 6, 2010 at 2:57 pm by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Full git stats for Koha

So after the great article by Eric Hellman on his blog about the copyright to Koha code I decided to learn about subtree merging so I could combine the old koha repo, with the new one. That way instead of having the stats broken into 2 different ones, pre 2000 and post 2000, I can [...]

Posted on January 31, 2010 at 5:18 pm by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Koha round up from Linux Conf Australia 2010

I had a great week last week at LCA2010, apparently there were about 650 attendees … which makes it one of the larger conferences I have attended.
Some of the presentation highlights for me

Jeremy Allison’s talk about ‘The Elephant in the room, Free Software and Microsoft’
Andrew Tridgell – Patent Defence for Free Software
Patrick Brennan – The [...]

Posted on January 24, 2010 at 8:34 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Release Manager for 3.4 elected

And in the final (maybe) piece of Koha news today. I have just been voted in as the Release Manager for the 3.4 release of Koha. The next general meeting will include the voting for the other positions, such as Translation Manager, QA Manager, Bug wrangler etc.
I will be staying on as Translation Manager until a [...]

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 10:05 am by Chris · Permalink · 4 Comments
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PTFS acquires Liblime

Some big news in the Koha world today, as well as the fantastic news that Biblibre and Bywater are partnering to offer services in the US comes the news that PTFS have acquired Liblime.
Over the last year PTFS has grown into a participating and valued member of the Koha community. Its developers are active on [...]

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 8:20 am by Chris · Permalink · 4 Comments
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ByWater Solutions and BibLibre partner in US

Some great news today, that ByWater Solutions and BibLibre have partnered to offer services to Libraries in the US. BibLibre is a long time member of the Koha community with a long track record of full, open and honest participation. I have known Paul for over 9 years now, and the other owners of BibLibre [...]

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 5:37 am by Chris · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Koha benchmarking

Plain old CGI
Authentication successful
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Koha circulation benchmarking utility
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Benchmarking with 200 occurences of each operation and 10 concurrent sessions
Load testing staff client dashboard page 127347ms 1.57051206545894 pages/sec
Load testing catalog detail page 131230ms [...]

Posted on January 11, 2010 at 9:39 pm by Chris · Permalink · 2 Comments
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