• Kyle M Hall- 24
• Owen Leonard- 18
• Chris Cormack- 15
• Nicole C. Engard- 10
• Mirko Tietgen- 9
• Marc Véron- 6
• Frédéric Demians- 5
• Jared Camins-Esakov- 5
• Magnus Enger- 4
• Jonathan Druart- 4
• M. de Rooy- 3
• Melia Meggs- 3
• wajasu- 2
• Paul Poulain- 2
• Fridolyn SOMERS- 2
• Tomás Cohen Arazi- 2
• Matthias Meusburger- 1
• Katrin Fischer- 1
• Julian Maurice- 1
• Koha Team Lyon 3- 1
• Mason James- 1
• Elliott Davis- 1
• mathieu saby- 1
• Robin Sheat- 1

Darla has been using Koha from 2006, for the Bering Strait School District in Alaska. This is pretty neat in itself, what is cooler is that as far as I know, they have never had a ‘Support Contract’. Doing things either by themselves or with the help of IT personnel as needed. One of Darla’s first blogposts that I read was about her struggles trying to install Debian on an Emac. I totally respect anyone who is trying to reclaim hardware from the darkside

Darla has presented on Koha at conferences, and maintains a blog that has useful information, including sections of what she would do differently. As well as some nice feel good bits like this, from April 2007

I know I had an entry titled this before, but I do love OSS programs.   Yesterday I mentioned that I would look at Pines because I like the tool it has to merge MARC records.  Today a Koha developer emailed me to let me know that he is working on this for Koha and it should be available soon.  I can’t imagine getting that kind of service from a vendor.

Hopefully she will be able to make it Kohacon13 in Reno, NV. It would be great to put a face to the email address

The release team will be working super hard to bring you the best release of Koha yet, and you can help:

• Reporting bugs
• Testing bug fixes
• Writing up enhancement requests
• Using Koha
• Sending cookies
• Inventing time travel
• Killing MARC
• Winning the lottery and donating the proceeds to the trust to use for Koha work.

• Ask specific questions, and provide as much information as you can. “I’m running Koha 3.8.3, installed from debian packages, on a 64bit OS. The hard drive died yesterday, and after reboot, I can no longer search in Koha” Is a a good question. “KOHA is broke, fix it” is not.
• Ask, with a willingness to listen to the answers.
• Remember not everyone who answers is an expert, but they are giving up their time to try and help, graciousness never ever hurts.

Here endeth the whine.

I think there were 60+ people there, from about 25 different organisations all with differing levels of knowledge about Koha. Despite the varying levels I think the programme shaped itself (it was run mostly as an unconference) into something that worked for everyone there.  One of the highlights for me was that during the question and answer sessions, a lot of questions were being answered by other Koha users.

The show and tell section went well too, with NZICA, LGNZ, and The family violence clearinghouse all showing off what they have done with their Koha. I got a kick out of seeing the LGNZ one, as it was something I had worked on in 2003/4, it was great to see it still in use.

I got the opportunity to try out my Kohacon presentation on a real live audience and I think I didn’t even bore them too much.

The day ended with drinks and nibbles, sponsored by Catalyst IT, and lots of great chatting. I always say the talking between conference sessions is the best part of any conference and I think it was the same again.

This week I get to follow up on all the emails I said I would send, and hopefully watch a lot of nz libraries become more and more active in the Koha community. Thank you to everyone who attended for making it a great day.

Owen specialises in UI and UX work and writes a blog that is invaluable to anyone working on Koha look and feel.  What makes it even cooler is that Owen works for a library, not one of the many Koha support companies. That not only makes Owen cool, but it makes his library super cool for understanding the more you put into Koha, the more you get out.

So thank you Owen, thank you to your family, and to Athens County Public Libraries.

• 129 bugs/enhancements were marked signed off
• 13 were marked Patch doesn’t apply
• 38 Failed QA
• 105 Passed QA
• 80 were Pushed to master
• 98 were marked Resolved

Here are the people who did the sign offs

• Chris Cormack – 28
• Katrin Fischer – 14
• Jared Camins-Esakov – 12
• Liz Rea – 9
• Nicole C. Engard – 8
• Ian Walls – 8
• Alex Arnaud – 7
• Paul Poulain – 5
• Jonathan Druart – 5
• Owen Leonard – 4
• Kyle M Hall – 4
• Marc Veron – 3
• Mason James – 3
• delaye – 3
• Chris Nighswonger – 3
• Marcus Enger – 2
• M. de Rooy – 2
• Marijana Glavica – 2
• Robin Sheat – 2
• Dobrica Pavlinusic – 2
• Elliott Davis – 1
• Galen Charlton – 1
• Frederic Demians – 1

• Processed 1087 changesets from 71 developers
• 26 employers found
• A total of 1587389 lines added, 1273852 removed (delta 313537)

One of my personal favourites is the 15 patches from the Catalyst Academy students.

• 212 bug fixes/enhancements were signed off
• 36 marked patch does not apply
• 172 Passed QA
• 98 Failed QA
• 154 Pushed to Master

And who were the people who did the sign offs?

1. Jared Camins-Esakov  – 34
2. Katrin Fischer – 19
3. Nicole C. Engard – 13
4. Liz Rea – 12
5. Owen Leonard – 11
6. Alex Arnaud – 10
7. Matthias Meusburger  – 9
8. Marc Veron – 8
9. MathildeF – 7
10. delaye – 6
11. Kristina Hoeppner – 6
12. Magnus Enger – 6
13. Chris Cormack – 6
14. Julian Maurice – 6
15. M. de Rooy – 6
16. Koha Team Lyon 3 – 6
17. Ian Walls – 5
18. Julien Sicot – 4
19. Pierre Angot – 4
20. jmbroust – 3
21. Elliott Davis – 3
22. Paul Poulain – 3
23. Marijana Glavica – 3
24. Adrien SAURAT- 3
25. laurenthdl –
26. MJ Ray (software.coop) – 2
27. Jonathan Druart – 2
28. Dobrica Pavlinusic – 2
29. Corinne BULAC  – 1
30. Srdjan Jankovic – 1
31. Shane Sammons – 1
32. Leila – 1
33. Melia Meggs – 1
34. Marc Balmer – 1
35. Robin Sheat – 1
36. Francois Charbonnier – 1
37. Frederic Demians – 1

To make it webscale and cloud ready, respecting both the nimbus and cumulus standards we rewrote everything in aspx, which we then pre compiled into cobol.  We also decided to replace the RDBMS layer with Oracle and sqlite.  This has the side effect of needing 872 GB of HD to install, but we feel the lack in performance, flexibility and loss of freedom is well worth it to be buzzword compliant.