Conference – Kōrerorero

Next conference – LIANZA 2011

ranginui — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:36 +0000

Having just got off the plane from Vancouver (well not really but it feels like it). I’m attending another conference, this time in Wellington. Kristina, Kathryn and I will be on the Catalyst stand (stand 29) for the conference. But also Kristina is presenting on Mahara, Paul, Cath and I are presenting a Koha workshop and Shelley is going to be talking about Open Source (with a focus on Koha) also.

We will of course be giving away Free ILS at the stand, free as in freedom and beer, but would also be more than happy to talk about Mahara, Moodle, Totara, Drupal, Libravatar and of course Koha.

Access 2011 – You shoulda been there.

ranginui — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:35:02 +0000

This past week I had the privilege of attending my first ever Access conference. I had a great time and thought I should do a bit of a write up.

The venue

Access was held in Vancouver this year, which is an absolutely beautiful city. I spent most of Monday exploring Stanley Park. I got to see otters eating what looked to me like a flounder, and an eagle catch a fish too. it is a really neat place here are a couple of the photos I took on my crappy phone camera.

Tuesday started with Dim Sum, great food and great company, which I think was the theme of the entire trip. Following that I got to have a look around Tara’s library and then spent a few hours on Granville Island.

The Conference

The conference proper was awesome, there was really only one talk that I wasn’t interested in and lots that were great. The ones I enjoyed the most were:

Open to the Public: Indigenous Collections and the Ethics of Openness : Kimberly Christen and Alex Merrill
Open research data: fun, important, and in need of librarians : Heather Piwowar
All together now: creating software ecosystems from open, interoperable components : Bess Sadler

The social events

These were fantastic, again great food and great company, adding in to the mix great beer too. As with any conference the talks are good, but the most important thing (for me anyway) is the hallway track. That is the conversations held with people after the talks spark some ideas in the brain. For me, hanging out with the Sitka team was a real highlight.

Id like to thank the organising team once again for the fantastic job they did and in particular Shirley and Tara for being utterly fantastic hosts.

KohaCon 2009 Registrations open

ranginui — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:22:28 +0000

koha.org has a new news item about the registration for KohaCon 2009.

You can read the full details at here or on the homepage.

Upcoming Koha Conference in Texas, USA

ranginui — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:10:59 +0000

David Schuster is currently organising a conference, set for April next year. Its for Koha users and developers, you can read all about it here.

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