This is what I’m doing this weekend. It should be a great event, and it will be great to catch up with people I haven’t seen in years.
I think its been 14 years since I first did some work on a multimedia presentation to help out with the research project. Its sad to read that there are only 16 C Company veterans left, but I’m glad that with the launch of this book, others will get to hear some of the stories Ive heard, that would have been lost.
I spotted these 2 recently. (Though they have both been around a while)
Its always good to see users helping each other.
Currently ‘Mr Potato Head’ and ‘Crayon’ are tied for first place.
If you want to suggest something else, or just vote an idea up or down.
Heres the url again
I woke up this morning and checked my emails (as you do). And I noticed a message from Krishnan in India about a couple more libraries going live.
The thing that made my day was the thank you pages.
https://www.pustake.org/cgi-bin/koha/pages.pl?p=credits
http://library.mpatta.com/thankyou
It feels good to be appreciated 🙂
The recent announcement by Dehli Public Library that they have gone live with Koha is making the rounds in Indian news sites.
It’s pretty neat to see it making a splash.
Looking for something for the kids to do during the school holidays?
Why not have them make some art with the help of Laurel.
Heres a list of the times and places where she is running classes.
Another company has joined the ever growing list of companies providing services around Koha.
IndServe InfoTech Pvt. Ltd, in New Dehli, India. You can see the full list of support companies here
Some good news from BibLibre
BibLibre announced that three French University libraries have selected Koha for their next ILS. The libraries for the universities of Marseille in France will switch to Koha. They are: Université de Provence, Université Paul Cézanne and Université de la Méditerranée, all in the Marseille area. The libraries will merge their catalogs, currently in a Horizon, Vubismart and Loris system respectively, and switch to Koha. The new catalog will have more than 750.000 items. The libraries have contracted with BibLibre for data migration, support and training on their Koha system. They also contracted with BibLibre to further develop Koha to enhance it’s functionalities.
You can see the press release in english here
I thought this was kinda cool ( I chose this book because it has my dad in it)
http://books.google.com/books/previewlib.js
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So I spent a decent chunk of my saturday at Software freedom day, and it was well worth it.
It was a really well organised event, with a really good turnout. There were 2 streams running simultaneously, the barcamp and the hackfest. I started off going to a session in the barcamp that was about “Starting a Free Software project” combined with people from Silverstripe talking about their experience releasing under the BSD License. Unfortunately, we didnt really touch on much other than talking about Silverstripe’s expericence, which was interesting, although I had one criticism that they kept saying Commercial when they meant Proprietary.
Nothing caught my eye for the second set of sessions of the barcamp, so I headed over the bridge to the hackfest .. and spent most of it checking out a new git clone of Koha to my wifes laptop. Note to self do this before the hackfest next time. But I did have a good chat with Francois so it wasn’t time wasted.
I then headed back over the bridge to the barcamp and to a session on Xapian , a very promising sounding fulltext indexing engine. Something I’m definitely going to have to have a play with
I then had to head home, but would have happily stayed for more if I had been able to.
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