Author: ranginui

Koha Localisation for 3.0.1

While I wait for the last little bits that are holding up my new vserver, people can (and are) translating Koha at

http://pootle.workbuffer.org/

There are currently 34 languages being translated for the OPAC, in varying states of completeness.

Here are some stats from people using the pootle web interface

Username Language-Code Number translated
gkatsa el 5
tajoli it 8
Agnes hu 5
beda de 5
rea1 el 3
RobertH de 13
Hans nl 54
hellen de 7

Koha in Malawi

This came through into my feed reader today. 

Koha in Malawi 

The Malawi Library and Information Consortium Technology Research Group started studying KOHA, an Open Source library management software to assist libraries in Software. The pilot is being done by eIFL. Specifically, Mzuzu University is the pilot site. Mzuzu University has now installed Koha on Linux and have made some major configurations to their system.

Pretty cool eh?

Its Official, Number 2 is on the way

We went in for Laurel’s 12 week scan this week, and everything is all good. So by June Kahurangi should have a brother or a sister.

We don’t have a working name for this one yet, I suggested Sharpie Pen, since Kahu was Crayon. But Laurel was having none of it, leave any suggestions in the comments.

Git Stats

Ive been playing with git stats, here are the stats for Koha from

1999-10-22 to 2000-10-12

And

2000-12-20 to now

So we are missing about 4 months, (we started about august 1999) and november 2000 and most of december.

Interesting stats (well interesting to me anyway)

  • 775 + 560 = 1335 commits by me
  • 356 + 2879 = 3235 days working on Koha for me
  • November 2007 was the biggest month for commits with 558
  • There have been 760 + 9148 = 9908 commits .. so we should hit our 10,000th commit pretty soon

First 10 committers

  1. Me 1999-10-22
  2. Olwen 1999-10-29
  3. Simon 1999-12-01
  4. Steve Tonnessen 2001-01-06
  5. Pawel 2001-07-12
  6. Paul Poulain 2002-03-06
  7. Finlay Thompson 2002-03-13
  8. Pat Eyler 2002-04-09
  9. Gynn Lomax 2002-04-10
  10. Saas 2002-04-21

 

    BibLibre installs Koha for free at a Training Centre

    From this post http://abesformation.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/koha-un-outil-de-formation/ and from talking to one of the guys from BibLibre, I gather that BibLibre have installed Koha for free at a training centre.

    So this centre can now offer Koha training to it’s members. Koha will now serve as a framework for training librarians. Previously tools to train them, especially in cataloguing were lacking but since Koha supports the UNIMARC standard it allows librarians to train using real UNIMARC records and to learn practical hands on skills.

    As far as I can tell from my limited french and the help of google translate, BibLibre will be maintaining the installation at no cost as well.

    A great idea, and kudos to BibLibre for doing this.

    The Barr costume heritage continues

    Laurel made this costume, which won Kahurangi second place in the Westview Halloween parade.

    He was also a hit when they went Trick or Treating in Eerie. Even though he did walk up to the door yell knock knock, trick or treat (pronounced ti feet), then run into people’s houses to try and hug their pets. 

    Laurel made the costume with a tapestry needle, double sided tape and a hotel sewing kit. Having an artist for a mother is both a blessing and a curse. The reason why he went as a ketchup bottle was he was obsessed by the fact every table in every restaurant in the US has ketchup on it. Also Kahurangi’s great great grandfather invented the twist cap which he sold to Heinz, and it’s still in use.