Unsung Koha Heroes – 18
Glen Stewart Glen Stewart was the first developer outside of Katipo to submit code to Koha. To this day, nearly 10 years later, the code he wrote for decoding cuecat barcodes is still being used. Glen was only involved in Koha for about 6 months but by being the first contributor outside of the original [...]
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Unsung Koha heroes – Part 17
Pat Eyler Us old timers will remember Pat well, but the newer members of the community will not have had the opportunity to meet him. Pat was the first Koha Kaitiaki, and did a huge amount to promote Koha and to foster a strong community. Pat first became involved in Koha in April 2002, and [...]
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Unsung Koha Heroes – 16
Pierrick Le Gall Pierrick was only in the Koha community for a short period of time but he made a lasting impression. With 22 patches to his name and 2021 lines of code changed he made a worthy contribution to development. He also served as Translation Manager and briefly as QA Manager before the company [...]
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Koha unsung heroes – Part 15
The #koha irc channel On irc.katipo.co.nz we have a #koha irc channel (have had since 2000). There have been literally thousands of times someone has been helped on there. Here are some of my favourites: Thd helps audrey with understanding MARC21 si teaches kados about ssh-keychain I help kados out with html::template We help 2 [...]
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Unsung Koha Heroes – Part 14
Rob Weir On the 13 of December 2002, Rob Weir posted the first link to his windows packages for Koha. This begun countless volunteer hours spent packaging and testing windows installs. Packages were created all the way up to version 2.2.9. There is a current perl module dependency that is uninstallable on windows, which is [...]
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Unsung Koha Heroes – Part 13
Andrew Arensburger Anyone who has ever looked at the Koha code will have noticed there is one module everything else uses, C4::Context. Back in September of 2002, this was not the case until Andrew wrote this neat module. It has been poked at by a lot of people since then, but 269 lines of it [...]
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Unsung Koha Heroes – Part 12
Ed Summers As well as chatting on irc and the mailing lists (mostly helping out with MARC encoding problems) Ed has done a huge amount of work on modules for dealing with MARC records in perl. Including MARC::Record, MARC::XML and MARC::Charset which Koha uses. Without these modules building MARC support into Koha would have been [...]
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Koha Unsung Heroes – Part 11
Laurel Barr – My Wife Laurel has had no direct input into Koha but a huge indirect input. For being understanding when the phone rings at 3am to tell me the koha.org site was down. For accepting I need to bring my laptop to bed sometimes, or wake up at 3am to attend a koha [...]
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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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