Tag: Koha

Three French Universities select Koha

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

Koha Roles for the 3.2 release

On Saturday morning NZ time, a significant number of the Koha developers met on #koha, on irc.katipo.co.nz to discuss people to fill the roles for 3.2

You can read the full log here

A quick summary is

  • 3.2 Release Manager – Galen Charlton, LibLime
  • Translation Manager – Chris Cormack, Catalyst
  • Documentation Manager – Nicole Engard, LibLime
  • 3.0 Release Maintainer – Henri-Damien Laurent, BibLibre

QA Manager is still to be filled.

As well as these roles filled several other decisions were made

  •  Galen will set up gitosis on git.koha.org to allow Henri-Damien to push patches to the 3.0.x branch.
  •  Henri-Damien announced that minor revisions of 3.0.x will be packaged and released every two months.
  • Galen announced a date of 10 October 2008 for the developers to complete review of the RFCs for 3.2.  I will also send out another schedule proposal for the 3.2 development cycle.

My first task is going to be setting up a populated pootle and getting some people using it. I plan to work on that this evening

Delhi Public Library using Koha

From the Koha mailing list today

“Delhi Public Library is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Tourism & Culture and governed by Delhi Library Board, fully financed by the Government of India. Delhi Public Library was started as a UNESCO project in the year 1951 by the Govt. of India. It was inaugurated by first Prime Minister of India Hon’ble Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, started as small unitary library in old Delhi, Opp. Old Delhi Railway Station. It has since developed into a premier Public Library System in the metropolitan city of Delhi”

This is the excerpt from the welcome message given on the home page of Delhi Public Library (http://www.dpl.gov.in). I would like to share with you all that this historic library having more than 2 Million books/bibliographic material in Indian and English Language is now online using Koha. Catalogue can be accessed at:

http://59.176.17.111/ (or follow the link on their main website)

It is the real implementation of Koha 3 without any paid support (I think first in South Asia, plz correct me someone if I am wrong). I congratulate Mr. Amit and Mr. Sudhir on this achievement.

Note: Amit is trying to install Koha 3 Stable Release today, Amit! keep it up..

Koha 3 Packaging

Ok, the 2nd crack of my debian package is up in my repo now
Add
deb http://apt.workbuffer.org/ hardy all
To your /etc/apt/sources.list
And then
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libkoha-perl
And if you are willing you can checkout my package branch, and build your own package, for your architecture.

git clone git://gitorious.org/koha/mainline.git koha
OR
git clone http://git.gitorious.org/koha/mainline.git

Then
git -r branch
Will show you the remote branches,
git checkout origin/package

Gets you the package branch, then you run
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b -tc -us -uc

If you want to make any changes, and build a new package with a higher patch number, run
dch -i
Then commit the debian/changelog file and rebuild your package.

Any patches gratefully accepted, once I have it fully working with debconf and the preinst, postinst, postrm scripts all going I will submit patches to patches@koha.org.

Oh, and Marc from Biblibre informed me I forgot to tell people how they can get my public key. You can get it from biglumber.com
Or simply by running
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 557F7779

UPDATE

I have removed the packages as people were trying to use them for purposes other than just testing.