Category: Koha

Feature freeze and Koha 3.4.5

We are well inside the feature freeze for the 3.6.0. What this means is no new patches for features will be considered for inclusion in 3.6.0. Patches already submitted and new patches for bug fixes are still up for inclusion. The next deadline is string freeze, to allow the translators time to translate.

In the meantime work on 3.4.5 has continued on and it has been released. You can read the release notes here

Statistics for the release:

  • Processed 120 csets from 27 developers
  • 19 employers found
  • A total of 2140 lines added, 4051 removed (delta -1911)
Developers with the most changesets
Owen Leonard 40 33.3%
Chris Cormack 17 14.2%
Katrin Fischer 17 14.2%
Nicole C. Engard 5 4.2%
Robin Sheat 5 4.2%
Ian Walls 4 3.3%
Magnus Enger 4 3.3%
Chris Nighswonger 3 2.5%
Marcel de Rooy 3 2.5%
Colin Campbell 3 2.5%
Fr�d�ric Demians 2 1.7%
Alex Arnaud 2 1.7%
Srdjan Jankovic 1 0.8%
Liz Rea 1 0.8%
Ulrich Kleiber 1 0.8%
Janusz Kaczmarek 1 0.8%
Brett Wilkins 1 0.8%
Paul Poulain 1 0.8%
Christophe Croullebois 1 0.8%
Henri-Damien LAURENT 1 0.8%
Fr�d�rick Capovilla 1 0.8%
Steven Callender 1 0.8%
Maxime Pelletier 1 0.8%
preprod34 1 0.8%
Ward van Wanrooij 1 0.8%
Salvador Zaragoza Rubio 1 0.8%
Tomas Cohen Arazi 1 0.8%
Developers with the most changed lines
Owen Leonard 3548 66.0%
Robin Sheat 301 5.6%
Chris Nighswonger 250 4.7%
Katrin Fischer 148 2.8%
Nicole C. Engard 135 2.5%
Ian Walls 127 2.4%
Magnus Enger 115 2.1%
Chris Cormack 80 1.5%
Marcel de Rooy 60 1.1%
Srdjan Jankovic 55 1.0%
Fr�d�ric Demians 44 0.8%
Salvador Zaragoza Rubio 13 0.2%
Alex Arnaud 10 0.2%
Colin Campbell 7 0.1%
Brett Wilkins 7 0.1%
Maxime Pelletier 6 0.1%
preprod34 6 0.1%
Christophe Croullebois 5 0.1%
Fr�d�rick Capovilla 5 0.1%
Janusz Kaczmarek 4 0.1%
Liz Rea 3 0.1%
Ulrich Kleiber 2 0.0%
Henri-Damien LAURENT 2 0.0%
Ward van Wanrooij 2 0.0%
Paul Poulain 1 0.0%
Steven Callender 1 0.0%
Tomas Cohen Arazi 1 0.0%
Developers with the most lines removed
Owen Leonard 2774 68.5%
Srdjan Jankovic 19 0.5%
Marcel de Rooy 3 0.1%
Maxime Pelletier 2 0.0%
Developers with the most signoffs (total 328)
Chris Nighswonger 119 36.3%
Chris Cormack 102 31.1%
Nicole C. Engard 25 7.6%
Ian Walls 25 7.6%
Owen Leonard 21 6.4%
Katrin Fischer 14 4.3%
Liz Rea 4 1.2%
Robin Sheat 4 1.2%
Paul Poulain 3 0.9%
Nicole Engard 3 0.9%
Magnus Enger 3 0.9%
Ulrich Kleiber 1 0.3%
Steven Callender 1 0.3%
Galen Charlton 1 0.3%
Federico Rinaudo 1 0.3%
Fr�d�ric Demians 1 0.3%
Developers with the most reviews (total 0)
Developers with the most test credits (total 0)
Developers who gave the most tested-by credits (total 0)
Developers with the most report credits (total 0)
Developers who gave the most report credits (total 0)
Top changeset contributors by employer
ACPL 40 33.3%
Catalyst 24 20.0%
BSZ-BW 18 15.0%
ByWater-Solutions 9 7.5%
Biblibre 5 4.2%
Libriotech 4 3.3%
Foundations 3 2.5%
PTFS-Europe 3 2.5%
Rijksmuseum 3 2.5%
Tamil 2 1.7%
tomascohen@gmail.com 1 0.8%
frederick.capovilla@sys-tech.net 1 0.8%
wvanwanrooij@nextfactory.nl 1 0.8%
preprod34@koha.ccsr.qc.ca 1 0.8%
maxime.pelletier@libeo.com 1 0.8%
salvazm@masmedios.com 1 0.8%
NEKLS 1 0.8%
januszop@gmail.com 1 0.8%
Equinox 1 0.8%
Top lines changed by employer
ACPL 3979 74.1%
Catalyst 446 8.3%
ByWater-Solutions 262 4.9%
Foundations 250 4.7%
BSZ-BW 150 2.8%
Libriotech 115 2.1%
Rijksmuseum 60 1.1%
Tamil 44 0.8%
Biblibre 18 0.3%
salvazm@masmedios.com 13 0.2%
PTFS-Europe 7 0.1%
preprod34@koha.ccsr.qc.ca 6 0.1%
maxime.pelletier@libeo.com 6 0.1%
frederick.capovilla@sys-tech.net 5 0.1%
januszop@gmail.com 4 0.1%
NEKLS 3 0.1%
wvanwanrooij@nextfactory.nl 2 0.0%
tomascohen@gmail.com 1 0.0%
Equinox 1 0.0%
Employers with the most signoffs (total 328)
Foundations 119 36.3%
Catalyst 106 32.3%
ByWater-Solutions 50 15.2%
ACPL 21 6.4%
BSZ-BW 15 4.6%
NEKLS 4 1.2%
Libriotech 3 0.9%
Biblibre 3 0.9%
nengard@gmail.com 3 0.9%
Equinox 2 0.6%
Tamil 1 0.3%
frinaudo@infocpt.com.ar 1 0.3%
Employers with the most hackers (total 27)
Catalyst 4 14.8%
Biblibre 4 14.8%
ByWater-Solutions 2 7.4%
BSZ-BW 2 7.4%
Foundations 1 3.7%
ACPL 1 3.7%
NEKLS 1 3.7%
Libriotech 1 3.7%
Equinox 1 3.7%
Tamil 1 3.7%
Rijksmuseum 1 3.7%
salvazm@masmedios.com 1 3.7%
PTFS-Europe 1 3.7%
preprod34@koha.ccsr.qc.ca 1 3.7%
maxime.pelletier@libeo.com 1 3.7%
frederick.capovilla@sys-tech.net 1 3.7%
januszop@gmail.com 1 3.7%
wvanwanrooij@nextfactory.nl 1 3.7%
tomascohen@gmail.com 1 3.7%

Simple ascii representation of the commits to date for 3.6.0

Using the script here (with a couple of little mods) I generated this bit of ascii art showing the work on 3.6.0

2011-04 |######                                           24 commits 
2011-05 |##############                                   53 commits 
2011-06 |##############################                  113 commits 
2011-07 |######################                           84 commits 
2011-08 |########################################        148 commits 
2011-09 |######################################          142 commits

Random musings from a retiring release manager

As most of you probably know, to the great pleasure of my wife and family, the release of 3.6.0 on October 22 will be my last release as release manager for Koha.  I will undoubtedly do another post after the release doing more introspection and thank yous, but I had a few thoughts in my head now that I wanted to get down before  I forgot them.

My goals as RM

These are totally my own goals, and I have no delusions of grandeur that they are ‘the’ goals or anything like that. Just my own ones.

I think I can sum it up in one short phrase

The release is for the users

What I mean by this, is I saw my role as working for the users who install and use Koha without support. My role was to provide stable and solid releases so that those without support companies, or inhouse developers could use Koha. If this happened to make life easier for developers and/or support companies/organisations then that is a very happy byproduct, but not the goal.

I was (and am) exceedingly lucky that the company I work for (Catalyst IT) understand this. They gave me the freedom and support to pursue this goal, even when by doing so I made things harder (in some instances) for Catalyst. Catalyst are a company of 130+ people spread over 3 countries, working on free and open source software. From mission critical systems like the NZ electoral role and software that runs the general elections, down to small libraries running Koha. With an organisation of that size, it is easy for people to lose sight of the big picture, but to their credit the directors haven’t.

They understand my role as RM was to better the project, and if that betters Catalyst too then that was a happy bonus. They understood it is up to us at Catalyst to work out how we can serve our own needs and our clients needs while still being good citizens of the project.

This has turned into a bit of a thank you to Catalyst, which wasn’t how it started, but I think it is how I will leave it.

Statistics for Koha 3.4.4 release

It’s that time again. Koha 3.4.4 has been released, so here are some statistics

  • Processed 99 changesets from 30 developers
  • 22 employers found
  • A total of 2459 lines added, 1873 removed (delta 586)
  • 85 Bugs closed
Developers with the most changesets
Owen Leonard 16 16.2%
Chris Cormack 8 8.1%
Ian Walls 7 7.1%
Chris Nighswonger 6 6.1%
Robin Sheat 6 6.1%
Marcel de Rooy 6 6.1%
Magnus Enger 5 5.1%
Frédérick Capovilla 5 5.1%
Katrin Fischer 4 4.0%
Colin Campbell 4 4.0%
Liz Rea 3 3.0%
Paul Poulain 3 3.0%
Sophie Meynieux 3 3.0%
Janusz Kaczmarek 3 3.0%
Frédéric Demians 2 2.0%
Nicole C. Engard 2 2.0%
Srdjan Jankovic 2 2.0%
Frère Sébastien Marie 2 2.0%
preprod34 1 1.0%
Julian Maurice 1 1.0%
Brice Sanchez 1 1.0%
Christophe Croullebois 1 1.0%
MJ Ray 1 1.0%
Juan Romay Sieira 1 1.0%
Jane Wagner 1 1.0%
Alex Arnaud 1 1.0%
Jean-André Santoni 1 1.0%
Stéphane Delaune 1 1.0%
John Seymour 1 1.0%
Ricardo Dias Marques 1 1.0%
Developers with the most changed lines
Magnus Enger 1065 39.0%
Chris Nighswonger 297 10.9%
Colin Campbell 197 7.2%
Chris Cormack 182 6.7%
Owen Leonard 175 6.4%
Frédéric Demians 146 5.3%
MJ Ray 142 5.2%
Robin Sheat 87 3.2%
Marcel de Rooy 61 2.2%
Ian Walls 55 2.0%
Paul Poulain 44 1.6%
Brice Sanchez 35 1.3%
Jean-André Santoni 34 1.2%
Srdjan Jankovic 29 1.1%
Liz Rea 23 0.8%
Sophie Meynieux 15 0.5%
Katrin Fischer 14 0.5%
Frédérick Capovilla 12 0.4%
Janusz Kaczmarek 10 0.4%
Frère Sébastien Marie 10 0.4%
Christophe Croullebois 8 0.3%
Jane Wagner 8 0.3%
Alex Arnaud 6 0.2%
Julian Maurice 5 0.2%
Juan Romay Sieira 3 0.1%
Nicole C. Engard 2 0.1%
preprod34 2 0.1%
Stéphane Delaune 2 0.1%
John Seymour 2 0.1%
Ricardo Dias Marques 2 0.1%
Developers with the most lines removed
MJ Ray 111 5.9%
Colin Campbell 78 4.2%
Srdjan Jankovic 14 0.7%
Jean-André Santoni 8 0.4%
Alex Arnaud 3 0.2%
Developers with the most signoffs (total 285)
Chris Nighswonger 94 33.0%
Chris Cormack 88 30.9%
Paul Poulain 27 9.5%
Nicole C. Engard 18 6.3%
Katrin Fischer 16 5.6%
Ian Walls 14 4.9%
Owen Leonard 6 2.1%
Robin Sheat 5 1.8%
Liz Rea 4 1.4%
Marcel de Rooy 3 1.1%
MJ Ray 2 0.7%
Julian Maurice 2 0.7%
Colin Campbell 1 0.4%
Alex Arnaud 1 0.4%
Sophie Meynieux 1 0.4%
Frederic Demains 1 0.4%
Magnus Enger 1 0.4%
Frédéric Demians 1 0.4%
Top changeset contributors by employer
Catalyst 16 16.2%
ACPL 16 16.2%
Biblibre 11 11.1%
ByWater-Solutions 8 8.1%
Foundations 6 6.1%
Rijksmuseum 6 6.1%
Libriotech 5 5.1%
frederick.capovilla@sys-tech.net 5 5.1%
BSZ-BW 4 4.0%
PTFS-Europe 4 4.0%
NEKLS 3 3.0%
januszop@gmail.com 3 3.0%
semarie-koha@latrappe.fr 2 2.0%
Tamil 2 2.0%
juan.sieira@xercode.es 1 1.0%
preprod34@koha.ccsr.qc.ca 1 1.0%
PTFS 1 1.0%
mjr@phonecoop.coop 1 1.0%
john.seymour@nal.gov.au 1 1.0%
brice.sanchez@sys-tech.net 1 1.0%
sekjal@samael.local 1 1.0%
koha@ricmarques.net 1 1.0%
Top lines changed by employer
Libriotech 1065 39.0%
Catalyst 298 10.9%
Foundations 297 10.9%
PTFS-Europe 215 7.9%
ACPL 205 7.5%
Tamil 146 5.3%
mjr@phonecoop.coop 142 5.2%
Biblibre 120 4.4%
ByWater-Solutions 62 2.3%
Rijksmuseum 61 2.2%
brice.sanchez@sys-tech.net 35 1.3%
NEKLS 23 0.8%
BSZ-BW 14 0.5%
frederick.capovilla@sys-tech.net 13 0.5%
januszop@gmail.com 10 0.4%
semarie-koha@latrappe.fr 10 0.4%
PTFS 8 0.3%
juan.sieira@xercode.es 3 0.1%
preprod34@koha.ccsr.qc.ca 2 0.1%
john.seymour@nal.gov.au 2 0.1%
koha@ricmarques.net 2 0.1%
sekjal@samael.local 1 0.0%
Employers with the most signoffs (total 285)
Foundations 94 33.0%
Catalyst 88 30.9%
ByWater-Solutions 32 11.2%
Biblibre 31 10.9%
BSZ-BW 16 5.6%
ACPL 6 2.1%
BigBallOfWax 5 1.8%
Rijksmuseum 3 1.1%
Tamil 2 0.7%
mjr@phonecoop.coop 2 0.7%
NEKLS 2 0.7%
wizzyrea@gmail.com 2 0.7%
Libriotech 1 0.4%
PTFS-Europe 1 0.4%
Employers with the most hackers (total 31)
Biblibre 7 22.6%
Catalyst 3 9.7%
ByWater-Solutions 2 6.5%
Foundations 1 3.2%
BSZ-BW 1 3.2%
ACPL 1 3.2%
Rijksmuseum 1 3.2%
Tamil 1 3.2%
mjr@phonecoop.coop 1 3.2%
NEKLS 1 3.2%
Libriotech 1 3.2%
PTFS-Europe 1 3.2%
brice.sanchez@sys-tech.net 1 3.2%
frederick.capovilla@sys-tech.net 1 3.2%
januszop@gmail.com 1 3.2%
semarie-koha@latrappe.fr 1 3.2%
PTFS 1 3.2%
juan.sieira@xercode.es 1 3.2%
preprod34@koha.ccsr.qc.ca 1 3.2%
john.seymour@nal.gov.au 1 3.2%
koha@ricmarques.net 1 3.2%
sekjal@samael.local 1 3.2%

Key dates for the 3.6.0 Release

This is a repost of my post over at koha-community.org

We are rapidly closing in on the 3.6.0 release, so I thought it would be good remind everyone of the key dates.

  • Feature freeze � 22 September 23:59 UTC � From this point on, no new features will be considered for inclusion into 3.6.0
  • String freeze � 8 October 23:59 UTC � no bugs that change templates accepted after this point. This allows the translators to translate without things changing on them
  • Translations finished 18 October 23:59 UTC � Translations submitted, so that they can be tested before release
  • Release 22 October

And just a point, translators should not feel they need to wait until the 8th to start translating, but should begin as soon as they are able.

Changes for 3.4.3 broken down by filetype

The first number is the number of lines added, the second the number removed, so we code see for example Robin added 40 lines of developer documentation (files like readme, install.* etc)

Contributions by type and developers

devel-doc 50 0
        JAMES Mason: [10, 0]
        Robin Sheat: [40, 0]
code 108 84
        Chris Nighswonger: [31, 13]
        Chris Cormack: [1, 1]
        Ian Walls: [5, 10]
        Magnus Enger: [2, 2]
        Colin Campbell: [7, 6]
        Frère Sébastien Marie: [1, 1]
        Owen Leonard: [1, 1]
        Marcel de Rooy: [30, 30]
        Dobrica Pavlinusic: [1, 1]
        Janusz Kaczmarek: [1, 1]
        Katrin Fischer: [7, 6]
        conan (aka Fernando L. Canizo): [4, 2]
        Jesse Weaver: [13, 10]
        Paul Poulain: [4, 0]
unknown 14 3
        Nicole C. Engard: [1, 1]
        Liz Rea: [3, 0]
        Robin Sheat: [10, 2]
image 0 0
        Owen Leonard: [0, 0]
documentation 270 0
        Chris Nighswonger: [193, 0]
        Chris Cormack: [1, 0]
        Owen Leonard: [17, 0]
        Robin Sheat: [59, 0]
build 38 10
        Owen Leonard: [2, 2]
        Katrin Fischer: [2, 2]
        Robin Sheat: [34, 6]
template 140 94
        Chris Cormack: [1, 0]
        Ian Walls: [3, 3]
        Liz Rea: [8, 0]
        Owen Leonard: [89, 70]
        Katrin Fischer: [22, 21]
        Paul Poulain: [17, 0]

Statistics for 3.4.3

  • Processed 38 csets from 18 developers
  • 12 employers found
  • A total of 620 lines added, 189 removed (delta 431)
Developers with the most changesets
Owen Leonard 14 36.8%
Ian Walls 3 7.9%
Katrin Fischer 3 7.9%
Chris Cormack 2 5.3%
Chris Nighswonger 2 5.3%
Liz Rea 2 5.3%
Nicole C. Engard 1 2.6%
Marcel de Rooy 1 2.6%
Robin Sheat 1 2.6%
Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 2.6%
Colin Campbell 1 2.6%
Magnus Enger 1 2.6%
Paul Poulain 1 2.6%
conan (aka Fernando L. Canizo) 1 2.6%
JAMES Mason 1 2.6%
Janusz Kaczmarek 1 2.6%
Jesse Weaver 1 2.6%
Frère Sébastien Marie 1 2.6%
Developers with the most changed lines
Chris Nighswonger 224 35.8%
Robin Sheat 143 22.8%
Owen Leonard 109 17.4%
Katrin Fischer 31 5.0%
Marcel de Rooy 30 4.8%
Paul Poulain 21 3.4%
Ian Walls 13 2.1%
Jesse Weaver 13 2.1%
Liz Rea 11 1.8%
JAMES Mason 10 1.6%
Colin Campbell 7 1.1%
conan (aka Fernando L. Canizo) 4 0.6%
Chris Cormack 3 0.5%
Magnus Enger 2 0.3%
Nicole C. Engard 1 0.2%
Dobrica Pavlinusic 1 0.2%
Janusz Kaczmarek 1 0.2%
Frère Sébastien Marie 1 0.2%
Developers with the most lines removed
Ian Walls 5 2.6%
Developers with the most signoffs (total 106)
Chris Nighswonger 37 34.9%
Chris Cormack 35 33.0%
Nicole C. Engard 12 11.3%
Ian Walls 7 6.6%
Magnus Enger 4 3.8%
Frédéric Demians 3 2.8%
Liz Rea 3 2.8%
Colin Campbell 2 1.9%
Frère Sébastien Marie 1 0.9%
MJ Ray 1 0.9%
Owen Leonard 1 0.9%
Developers with the most reviews (total 0)
Developers with the most test credits (total 0)
Developers who gave the most tested-by credits (total 0)
Developers with the most report credits (total 0)
Developers who gave the most report credits (total 0)
Top changeset contributors by employer
ACPL 14 36.8%
(Unknown) 5 13.2%
ByWater-Solutions 4 10.5%
Catalyst 3 7.9%
BSZ-BW 3 7.9%
NEKLS 2 5.3%
Foundations 2 5.3%
PTFS-Europe 1 2.6%
Libriotech 1 2.6%
Rijksmuseum 1 2.6%
KohaAloha 1 2.6%
Biblibre 1 2.6%
Top lines changed by employer
Foundations 224 35.8%
Catalyst 146 23.3%
ACPL 110 17.6%
BSZ-BW 31 5.0%
Rijksmuseum 30 4.8%
Biblibre 21 3.4%
(Unknown) 20 3.2%
ByWater-Solutions 14 2.2%
NEKLS 11 1.8%
KohaAloha 10 1.6%
PTFS-Europe 7 1.1%
Libriotech 2 0.3%
Employers with the most signoffs (total 106)
Foundations 37 34.9%
Catalyst 35 33.0%
ByWater-Solutions 19 17.9%
(Unknown) 5 4.7%
Libriotech 4 3.8%
Tamil 3 2.8%
PTFS-Europe 2 1.9%
ACPL 1 0.9%

NZ Koha users group meeting

Today I had the great fortune of attending the first New Zealand Koha users group meeting, in the birthplace of Koha, Horowhenua. There were 51 attendees and even road closures and snow didn’t stop people attending. There was a really good mix of Library types, I think 18 from Publics, 18 from specials, and the rest schools, corporate and academic.

It was run as unconference so the first task of the day was to decide what would be talked about the rest of the day. The programme that we came up with was

  • The community – How to get involved and make the most
  • Installation/Migration/Training and Why should we use Koha
  • Features – what’s there, and what would we like added
  • Serials, Acquisitions, Cataloguing
  • Managing digital resources
  • Consortia
And one other I have forgotten, hopefully someone will leave me a comment with what it was. The discussions went really, with lots of participation. It definitely won’t be the last meeting, I think we are leaning towards 2 a year but that’s something that will be decided on the mailing lists.
While we were busy plotting plans to take over the world, (or at least New Zealand) Koha 3.4.3 was released.

Halfway to 3.6.0 (and a brief explanation of the release process)

We are just about to hit the halfway mark, (tomorrow NZ time) for the release of the 3.6.0 feature release. 3.4.3 is due out in a few days. I just had a thought, that perhaps there are some people who aren’t sure how releases for Koha work. So ill do a brief summary.

We work on a time based release cycle. All code is developed in the open, from multiple developers all around the world. This code is separated into adding new features, and fixing bugs. New features are released ever six months, these are the x.x.0 releases, (3.2.0, 3.4.0, 3.6.0 etc). But every month we release a bugfix release also, these are the 3.4.1, 3.4.2 etc releases.

So 3.4.0 was release April 22, 3.6.0 will be release October 22. 3.4.3 will be released July 22. So the 22nd of each month is an important date in the Koha world.

So how does code get into Koha? Well it’s pretty simple, and all contributors follow the same rules which makes it easy. Here’s a quick run down.

  1. A bug/enhancement is submitted by the ‘bug reporter’.
  2. A patch is submitted by the ‘patch writer’.
  3. (optional) RM pushed it as a QA branch.
  4. The patch is tested and signed off by the ‘patch signer’.
  5. The patch is tested by the QA manager, patch status is set to Passed QA
  6. The patch is tested and signed off by RM
  7. If the patch passes, it is pushed into master by the RM, status is set to Patch Pushed.
  8. The bug is marked resolved by the ‘bug closer’.
  9. The bug is closed when a release is made containing that patch.

Pretty simple eh, the main difference between this and closed source projects, is this is all done in the open, at any time anyone can see the code and the status of a feature/bug. Recently we have introduced Global Bug Squashing days, which are working really well at keeping the queues moving along. I track the bugs/features I have pushed up into the repository here http://koha-releasemanagement.branchable.com/ (as an aside, branchable.com is awesome, check it out).

Now as anyone who reads my blog knows, I enjoy useless statistics. So here’s the statistics at the halfway(ish) mark.

  • Processed 703 csets from 64 developers  (64 different people in 3 months, how cool is that?!!)
  • 23 new features added
  • 131 bugs fixed

Major new features close to addition, Total accounts system rewrite, allowing much better handling of partial payments, refunds etc. This is the first module to be shifted to the new Koha:: namespace from the old C4:: namespace.  Hourly (and in fact minutely) loans reworked in a more robust fashion. Holds system totally overhauled, to allow for even crazier schemes of placing holds, and much more.

Now is also a good time for people to start thinking about positions for the 3.8.0 release. Ever fancied being a release manager and trying to wrangle 70 odd people in 20 different countries into moving in mostly the same direction? Well this is the job for you (I say job, I mean labour of love :))

 

Speaking at SLIS meeting

So on the 28th of July (2 days after the NZ Koha users group meeting). I will be presenting at the Wellington SLIS group meeting.

SLIS provides a forum for networking and exchange of professional information for those with an interest in Special Libraries in the Wellington Region. We aim to hold up to 11 open meetings each year, and to facilitate professional development of members through special events as appropriate

I’m going to be speaking about the similarities between the consensus building approach to making decisions as seen in Marae based Hui, and participating in a  Free Software project. I think it should be pretty interesting, of course I’m biased 🙂

  • Date: Thursday 28th of July 2011
  • Time: 12.30-1.30pm
  • Venue: The Treasury, 1 The Terrace. When you arrive, take the elevator and report to Reception on Level 5
  • Cost: $5 for SLIS members, $8 for non-members

This session will be filmed and made available for non-Wellington based members.

People do need to RSVP, so if you want to do so, leave a comment and Ill get you the email address to RSVP to.