Tag: Koha

Finally that’s over – PTFS/Liblime Trademark on Koha not registered

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

My Kohacon13 writeup

Most people have already beaten me to this, but I want to do a write up from my perspective anyway. So in a continuing trend, this Kohacon was the best ever, as was the one before it, and the one before that…

What made it so?

Reno:

2013-10-23 12.40.002013-10-19 07.26.16Reno is about 1,300m above sea level, which is a hell of a lot higher than the 80 or so metres above sea level that I live at, and believe me for the first few days I really felt that. If you add to that the humidity levels, which were as low as 4% some days. (I don’t think I saw a single cloud in 13 days) and you would think I would have hated it. But you would be wrong, it is really really really pretty, and the people (at least the ones I met) are really friendly. Heck, cars stopped (on 4 lane roads) to let us cross, in NZ they’d speed up.

Atlantis Hotel & Casino:

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2013-10-13 18.26.46 Ok I admit by the end of it, I was sick of the lights, smokey atmosphere and noise on the casino floor. But the rooms were a lovely retreat away from that organised chaos. The bed was fantastic, the room was super clean and the internet worked well. I couldn’t have been happier with my room.

The conference venue was also top class, things went as smoothly as any conference I’ve been in and the layout of the room, with dual screens was great.

Washoe County Library System:

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I want to extend huge thanks to Nancy and her team, who organised and managed a conference that ran without any major glitches.  But not only did they play a huge part in making Kohacon a success, but they also shared with those of us who stayed for the hackfest their self made self-check machines. The code of which is all open source of course, so you can do the same.

The Presenters:

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2013-10-17 16.30.12As usual we had a great crop of speakers this year. There was only one that was a little bit vendorish, but the rest were great. Some of my highlights were the presentation about Koha use at Redeemers University in Nigeria. Their use of Koha helped them improve their ranking. Amber Hunt & Elliot Anders from Marlboro College talked about their use of CUFTS & GODOT, a way to free yourself from proprietary ERMS and Link resolver chains. Fred King who talked about using Koha as a citation manager. As well as pretty much everyone else except that Chris Cormack guy.

The Attendees

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We had a wide range of attendees, librarians from all types of libraries, and developers from all over the world. People from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, France, Italy, UK, Nigeria, Barbados, Argentina, Germany and the other countries I am bound to have missed.

Lake Tahoe (and surrounds)

I’m going to let the photos speak for themselves.

Bug statistics for July and August 2013

Here are the statistics from Bugzilla for July and August

  • 7 New bugs reported
  • 88 Moved to assigned
  • 352  Had a patch added needing signoff
  • 40  Patches didn’t apply
  • 339 Patches were signed off
  • 221 Passed QA
  • 104 Failed QA
  • 166 were pushed to master
  • 105 were pushed to stable branches

Who did the signoffs?

  1. Kyle M Hall 48
  2. Srdjan Jankovic 48
  3. Chris Cormack 36
  4. Owen Leonard 30
  5. Jonathan Druart 23
  6. Galen Charlton 20
  7. M. de Rooy 14
  8. Liz Rea 14
  9. Jared Camins-Esakov 14
  10. Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel 14
  11. Katrin Fischer 10
  12. Mirko Tietgen 10
  13. Campbell Reid-Tait 7
  14. David Cook 6
  15. Nicole C. Engard 6
  16. Magnus Enger 6
  17. Tomás Cohen Arazi 5
  18. Fridolyn SOMERS 4
  19. Melia Meggs 4
  20. Julian Maurice 3
  21. sandboxes@biblibre.com 3
  22. Robin Sheat 2
  23. Paola Rossi 2
  24. Bob Birchall 2
  25. Melissa Lefebvre 2
  26. Paul Poulain 1
  27. Mathieu Saby 1
  28. Frédéric Demians 1
  29. Nuño López Ansótegui 1
  30. Heather Braum 1
  31. Kenza 1

Who did QA? This is either Passed or Failed

  1. Katrin Fischer 79
  2. Kyle M Hall 36
  3. Jonathan Druart 36
  4. Chris Cormack 18
  5. M. de Rooy 16
  6. Galen Charlton 11
  7. Owen Leonard 9
  8. Liz Rea 3
  9. Campbell Reid-Tait 2
  10. Tomás Cohen Arazi 1
  11. Magnus Enger 1
  12. Mathieu Saby 1

 

What am I doing over summer?

Basically I had lost track of all the presentations I had committed myself to giving, so wanted to note them down here so I don’t do that again.

I don’t think I have missed any, if I have please tell me 🙂

UPDATE: I did forget one, added now

National libraries using Koha

Here’s the ones I know of,  please let me know of any other ones you know of

  1. National library of the Philipines http://koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
  2. National library of Malawi http://www.catalogue.mw/
  3. National library of Venezuala http://sisbiv.bnv.gob.ve/
  4. National library of Colombia http://catalogornbp.bibliotecanacional.gov.co/
  5. National library of Armenia

Updated: Adding Armenia

 

 

Koha bugzilla statistics for June 2013

  • 190 bugs moved to needs signoff
  • 158 were signed off
  • 24 had patches that didn’t apply
  • 69 Failed QA
  • 116 Passed QA
  • 65 were pushed to master
  • 41 were pushed to a stable branch

Who did the sign offs and QA?

Signoffs – June

  • Kyle M Hall – 42
  • Srdjan Jankovic – 23
  • Chris Cormack – 18
  • Jared Camins-Esakov – 11
  • Jonathan Druart – 10
  • M. de Rooy – 8
  • Galen Charlton – 6
  • Owen Leonard – 6
  • Julian Maurice – 5
  • Katrin Fischer – 4
  • Mason James – 3
  • Paul Poulain – 3
  • Liz Rea – 3
  • Nicole C. Engard – 3
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel – 2
  • David Cook – 2
  • mathieu saby – 2
  • Fridolyn SOMERS – 1
  • – 1
  • Marc Véron – 1
  • Melia Meggs – 1
  • Nuño López Ansótegui – 1
  • Magnus Enger – 1
  • Robin Sheat – 1

Passed QA – June

  • Jonathan Druart – 32
  • Chris Cormack – 30
  • Katrin Fischer – 22
  • Kyle M Hall – 17
  • M. de Rooy – 9
  • Robin Sheat – 3
  • Galen Charlton – 2
  • Fridolyn SOMERS – 1

Failed QA – June

  • Katrin Fischer – 16
  • Kyle M Hall – 14
  • Jonathan Druart – 11
  • M. de Rooy – 10
  • Galen Charlton – 5
  • Chris Cormack – 4
  • Jared Camins-Esakov – 3
  • mathieu saby – 2
  • Frédéric Demians – 1
  • Pierre Angot – 1
  • Owen Leonard – 1
  • Paul Poulain – 1

 

Unsung heroes of Koha 27 – Libraries with inhouse developers

Inspired by something I read this morning, I thought I would make a mention of the Koha developers who are employed by a library. Off the top of my head (and if I have missed some please let me know in comments) I can think of.

Owen, Marcel, Dobrica, Mirko, Tomas, Mathieu,  and the Koha Lyon team. All of these developers have committed numerous patches to Koha, and not just bug fixes but a lot of new features too.  I think this is quite remarkable and a good example of doing it right, take some of the money you save in licensing fees and take control of your own future.

Oh, I have just remembered Steve Tonnesen who wrote the first web based circulation, and was an employee of the Coastal Mountain School district. Also as Paul pointed out in the comments I forgot Arnaud, Hélène and Bruno from SAN-Ouest Provence.

 

 

May 2013 Koha Bugzilla statistics

May was a feature release month so a little quieter than a usual one never the less plenty was still done

  • 212 Bugs moved into ‘Needs Signoff’
  • 147 were signed off
  • 20 Patches didn’t apply
  • 36 Failed QA
  • 112 Passed QA
  • 116 were pushed to master
  • 39 were pushed to stable

Here is who did the sign offs

 

  • Kyle M Hall – 17
  • M. de Rooy – 14
  • Owen Leonard – 14
  • Galen Charlton – 13
  • Chris Cormack – 12
  • Nicole C. Engard – 12
  • Mirko Tietgen – 10
  • Katrin Fischer – 9
  • Paul Poulain – 7
  • David Cook – 6
  • Robin Sheat – 4
  • mathieu saby – 3
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel – 3
  • Jonathan Druart – 3
  • Melia Meggs – 3
  • Magnus Enger – 2
  • Adrien SAURAT – 2
  • Maxime Pelletier – 2
  • Julian Maurice – 2
  • Sophie MEYNIEUX – 1
  • Paola Rossi – 1
  • Liz Rea – 1
  • Fridolyn SOMERS – 1
  • Gaetan Boisson – 1
  • Pierre Angot – 1
  • Srdjan Jankovic – 1
  • jmbroust – 1

Here is who did the QA

Passed QA

  • Katrin Fischer – 48
  • Jonathan Druart – 26
  • M. de Rooy – 13
  • Chris Cormack – 10
  • Robin Sheat – 4
  • Kyle M Hall – 3
  • Galen Charlton – 3
  • Mason James – 2
  • Jared Camins-Esakov – 2
  • Paul Poulain – 1

Failed QA

  • Jonathan Druart – 12
  • Katrin Fischer – 7
  • M. de Rooy – 4
  • Galen Charlton – 4
  • Owen Leonard – 3
  • mathieu saby – 2
  • Kyle M Hall – 2
  • Nicole C. Engard – 2

Koha bugzilla statistics for April 2013

So for April 2013 we again had a lot of activity

  • 49 bugs were marked Assigned
  • 206 had a patch attached for signoff
  • 177 were signed off
  • 125 Passed QA
  • 95 were pushed to master
  • 82 were pushed to stable
  • 10 didn’t apply cleanly
  • 54 failed QA

Signoffs – April

  • Chris Cormack – 43
  • Kyle M Hall – 34
  • Owen Leonard – 27
  • M. de Rooy – 14
  • Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel – 13
  • mathieu saby – 7
  • Mirko Tietgen – 6
  • Mason James – 5
  • Katrin Fischer – 5
  • Nicole C. Engard – 5
  • David Cook – 3
  • Magnus Enger – 3
  • Robin Sheat – 3
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi – 3
  • Jared Camins-Esakov – 1
  • Koha Team Lyon 3 – 1
  • Paul Poulain – 1
  • Brendan Gallagher – 1
  • Jonathan Druart – 1
  • Matthias Meusburger – 1

Passed QA – April

  • Katrin Fischer – 51
  • Jonathan Druart – 36
  • M. de Rooy – 20
  • Mason James – 13
  • Robin Sheat – 3
  • Kyle M Hall – 1
  • Jared Camins-Esakov – 1

Failed QA – April

  • Jonathan Druart – 12
  • Katrin Fischer – 12
  • M. de Rooy – 8
  • Owen Leonard – 8
  • Kyle M Hall – 4
  • David Cook – 2
  • Jared Camins-Esakov – 2
  • Chris Cormack – 2
  • Mason James – 2
  • Julien Sicot – 1
  • mathieu saby – 1