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One week to go.

This time next week Russ and I will be winging our way towards Paris for KohaCon 2006. I
have my speech done for the first day, still working on the one for the
second day, I hope to finish that off tomorrow. The itinerary for the
developers week is online and it looks like
we are going to be busy.

Koha Conference France 2006

The Inaugural Koha Conference is in Paris this year. Russ and I are going
over to represent the NZ Koha crew. You can read all about it on the koha
site.

Koha

Weird hard to reproduce bug

So Joshua and I spent a good chunk of today trying to fix a bug that we can
only readily reproduce on one machine. Its very odd, but we think we have
narrowed it down to one place to look. Something mental happens if the 856
tag is filled in. I maintain MARC is weird 🙂

Theres this one gang, that keeps wanting me to join because of my Bo Staff skills.

So it was an odd but yet productive weekend. Joshua, THD, and I managed to
do some interesting things with Koha.. well Joshua and THD did most of the
work, I cheered them along. I’ll do a bit of a post about what got done
later on, or you can read all about it in the mailing list archives.
Plus as you can probably tell by the tagline, I watched Napolean Dynamite
again. Oh and all the NZ teams won in the super 14.

Last day of Conference

Today is the last day of conference, its been fantastic. I found out that
the NSW Judicial Commission are using Koha to run their library. So Koha
helps to run the Australian court system, thats all good. Plus the MySQL
people tracked me down and had a good chat with me about ways to optimise
Koha and tricks for making things run faster using the query cache in tricky
ways. Tomorrow the speakers get a Helicopter ride, then I’m flying back home.

Koha

Well the talk is done

I have given my presentation, and talked to the press, so I thought the
stress was off. But one of the organisers has asked if I mind being on TV so
now im doing that. Im not sure what channel its for, im sure I’ll find out
though. That should be at around 12 today.
Now im off to one of the keynote addresses.

Koha

Talking today

So today I give my talk, but first I apparently have to talk to the media.
Three reporters are coming to interview some of the speakers, and they want
to talk to me. Im actually way more nervous about that, than my talk.

Koha

Linux Conf AU

So next wednesday I’m giving a talk about Koha at the Linux Conference Australia 2006.
Which is actually being held in Dunedin New Zealand. Its going to be a
pretty general talk, as the audience are going to be Linux/FLOSS enthusiasts
rather than Librarians. I plan to cover the history of Koha, and some
anecdotes, and where to from here. So if you are going to be at the
conference, come along and have a listen 🙂

Koha

It’s alive

Well thats officially 2 public libraries in New Zealand running Koha 2.2.x now. You can see HLT’s opac here . I think it turned out pretty nice.

Go live part 2

Well we have our scond go live this monday, thats 2 mondays in a row so in 3 days time there will be 2 public libraries running Koha 2.2.x in New Zealand. Hopefully it will all go as smooth as the last one. I’ll post some urls to look at once it safely live.