So while I was in Atlanta I went on a mission to try as much southern food and local Atlanta beer as I could. Some of the places I visited were
If you are ever in Atlanta you should totally try them. Publik and Tap for local beer, and good food. The other 2 for some of the best food you will ever taste. Your Doctor won’t thank you, but your taste buds sure will.
Finally, I also ate a cheeseburger from Five guys, so I’ll leave you with this, which is a more eloquent version of my reaction
A few weeks ago my laptop died so I needed to buy a new one. As I am heading off to Atlanta for the Supporting Cultural Heritage Open Source Software Symposium, I thought hmm, I could get a System76 laptop and pick it up when I’m there.
Equinox Software support both Evergreen and Koha and are based in Atlanta, even though I have never met most of them, they agreed to have the laptop delivered there. So when I get to Atlanta, I will go pick it up, exchange some beers, then go back to my hotel and check out my presentation out of git ready for the next day.
So thanks to a company that specialises in Linux laptops, and another that specialises in FOSS library software, I will have a brand new laptop running Linux in 3 days time.
Update: Here it is, so far I love it.
While I was at Kiwifoo, my dad turned 70. He’s a pretty awesome fulla, and a great role model. Here are a couple of my favourite photos from when he was younger.
If someone is excited about doing something, and is asking if anyone would like to help. And if your response is to lecture them on what they should be doing instead, then maybe just keep quiet.
They didn’t ask if you wanted to critique them, just if you wanted to collaborate.
But what do I know, let’s just bikeshed it to death.
The Koha developers and users have decided that security and privacy of libraries and their users data is no longer a concern. When asked about this decision, Chris Cormack, one of the original Koha developers said: “Naw, it’s not really an issue anymore”. When pressed about the decision to store users passwords in plain text after 15 years of encryption/hashing, he said “Hey, if no one else is going to bother safeguarding the data, why should we ?”
A Minotaur, costume made by Kahurangi and Aunty Donna
And a ninja (I know, I know he is wearing Chinese, not Japanese clothes, you try reasoning with a stubborn 4 year old)
Archery practice.
At the moment they are playing duck duck Zeus.
This year we had 8 students working on the Koha project as part of the Catalyst Open Source Academy. They all were very productive as the statistics below show.
The number of patches pushed (and the percentage of the ones pushed that week)
| Francesca Moore | 2 | 1.4% |
| Roman Amor | 2 | 1.4% |
| alex_h | 2 | 1.4% |
| daniel | 1 | 0.7% |
| Aleisha Amohia | 1 | 0.7% |
| Emma Heath | 1 | 0.7% |
| Tom Houlker | 1 | 0.7% |
| merllissia | 1 | 0.7% |
| Developers with the most changed lines | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tom Houlker | 245 | 4.2% |
| Roman Amor | 36 | 0.6% |
| Aleisha Amohia | 23 | 0.4% |
| Francesca Moore | 10 | 0.2% |
| alex_h | 6 | 0.1% |
| merllissia | 3 | 0.1% |
| Emma Heath | 3 | 0.1% |
| daniel | 2 | 0.0% |
Patches contributed
Catalyst Open Source Academy : 11 (7.9%)
Lines changed
Catalyst Open Source Academy : 328 (5.7%)
Signoffs
Catalyst Open Source Academy 11 (3.4%)
With still 9 days to go I’ve decided to do a bit of a wrap up for the year.
It was a pretty massive year in a lot of ways starting with
As most of you are aware on Wednesday we found out that the Trademark application had been rejected. Which is a massive relief for all involved in the Koha project. To quote myself:
“While it hasn’t slowed down the progress of Koha, it has been a dark shadow hanging over us for nearly four years,” he said.
“I would like to thank everyone involved in helping us, the many people who donated money, Buddle Findlay for representing the trust, my employer Catalyst, and AJ Pietras and Co who provided legal support, as well as the many thousands of people who sent well-wishes.”
Here is a list of the publicity around this decision.
Please let me know if you spot any more
Unfortunately I had to pull out of doing my lightning talk at NDF, I simply didn’t have the time to be able finish what I was going to present. I felt it was better to pull out than do something that wasn’t up to scratch, not really fair on the conference attendees otherwise.
But I still think the idea has some merit, so here is a snippet of the unfinished, rough edged, cut down for youtube, thing I was going to present
Massive thanks to Andrew Caudwell who writes Gource, without which this would not be possible.
It’s running circulation data with 1 minute = 1 day, but it’s equally interesting running a bit slower. There is a lot more I wanted to do, like using the actual book covers, visualising more data, like acquisition, and cataloguing .. tracking an item throughout its life. All of which is easily doable, just with more time.
Anyway, I hope people get something out of it.
Kōrerorero 