[Koha] he panui koha [11 Oct 2002]

[Pat Eyler]

			    he panui koha
			   11 October 2002

# # From the Kaitiaki:
   Welcome to the new and improved newsletter.  'he panui koha' means
   (roughly) 'the news of Koha'.  I've found that it's becoming harder
   to track all of the things that have been going on in the world of
   Koha.  To ensure that you get all the news you want, I'm going to
   be trying something new starting next week.  I've asked several
   people to take on the responsibility of writing a short section for
   the newsletter.  Each week, I'll collate their sections into a
   single newsletter and send it out.

1.4:
   The 1.3.0 has been released a few weeks ago. The 1.3.1 will come
   very soon. bugfixes, and it will add management tools for MARC
   parameters, and a first draft of MARCdetail.  Then, we will
   continue toward 1.3.2 which will add MARC add and modify of
   biblios.

   The french UNIMARC parameters tables should be avaible a few days
   after the 1.3.1 release, but won't be integrated during
   installation process (maybe in 1.3.2).

Docs:
   The developer level documentation (POD) written by Andrew
   Arensburger and others (Thanks guys!), is now being auto posted to
   http://www.kohalabs.com/resources/pod/ -- the documentation is
   rebuit from source every night to ensure the most up-to-date
   information is available.

Koha in the news:
   Koha made the news again this week.  Marshall Breeding wrote a
   somewhat negative piece about Open Source in libraries for
   Information Today (http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct02/breeding.htm)
   which was also picked up by LinuxToday
   (http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-09-014-26-RV-SW-PB).
   The feedback at LinuxToday was mixed.  It seems we have a long road
   ahead of us to convince people that open source can make as big a
   dent in the ILS market as it has in the webserver and operating
   systems markets.

Community:
   As more libraries have begun looking into Koha, we've started
   testing it with bigger data sets.  One library is testing Koha
   themselves with over 450,000 items in their database.  A developer
   is also testing Koha against a collection of just over 2,000,000
   items.

   Another development aimed at overcoming the obstacles to wider koha
   adoption is the Koha2010 project, which gets its name from the
   Oregon Library Association's 'Vision 2010' strategic plan.  This
   project is aimed at building a dialog between koha developers,
   librarians, and library associations to guide the development of
   Koha.  My intent is to ensure that Koha can fulfill all the
   requirements of these groups strategic plans for the next 5-10
   years.  If you'd like to join the conversation, please send an
   email to koha2010-subscribe at kohalabs.com and follow the directions
   you get in return mail.  You can also see
   http://www.kohalabs.com/projects/koha2010/ for more information.