The Technology Resource Foundation is happy to announce the beta technical release of OpenBook version 0.8. Due to its beta nature, installation of OpenBook version 0.8 is not suggested for the beginning Linux User. Highly recommended prerequisite skills include: -Manuevering the Linux command line -Configuring, compiling, and installing packages from source -Editing system config files Point your browser to http://www.trfoundation.org/projects/download.html to download the beta technical release. We hope to have a fully functional v1.0 release in the early fall. As many of you may know, we began this project by working on Koha. We quickly realized that to meet the needs of our local target audience, we would have to support MARC. A message sent to this list in late May by Lora Morgaine explains this in more detail. It's not intended at this point to be Koha, but rather we required the ability to support MARC format and our target progamming language was different. While we were definitely inspired by Koha, and we sent the originally compatible work to Chris Cormack, the code is completely new. I hope this addresses anyone's concerns about this being a fork project. We sincerely hope that the code release is something that will be useful to the Koha project, it's clearly not the same beast at this point. Deirdre McDonough deirdre@trfoundation.org http://www.trfoundation.org