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 he worked [...]
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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 people with Koha installs, and [...]
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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 blocking [...]
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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 are still [...]
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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 much [...]
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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 meeting [...]
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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 creation [...]
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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 [...]
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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 documentation, Nicolas [...]
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