[Koha] Official Koha Newsletter : Volume 2, Issue 8: August 2011

Fri Aug 26 10:39:05 NZST 2011

Great newsletter Daniel - you'lll have to frame it as your first one!

2011/8/26 Daniel Grobani <danielg.koha at gmail.com>

> [Below is the text of the newsletter. For active links and a more readable
> format, please visit
> http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-2issue-8-august-2011]
>
> Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
> Volume 2, Issue 8: August 2011
>
> Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor.
>
> Table of Contents
>
>     Koha Developments
>         Koha 3.4.4 Available
>         Koha 3.6 Update
>         Koha 3.2 End-of-Life
>     Koha Community
>         New Koha Libraries
>         Community Gossip
>     Past Koha Events
>         New Zealand Koha Users Group Meeting
>         Global Bug Squashing Day #3
>         August General IRC Meeting
>     Upcoming Koha Events
>         Global Bug Squashing Day #4
>         September General IRC Meeting
>         KohaCon11
>         KohaCon12
>
> Koha Developments
>
> Koha 3.4.4 Available
> by Chris Nighswonger
>
> It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.4.
>
> The package can be retrieved from:
>
> http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz
>
> You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the
> download:
>
> http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.MD5
> http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.MD5.asc
> http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.04.tar.gz.sig
>
> Release notes for 3.4.4 are below the fold.
>
> Come and get it!
>
> Continue reading “Koha 3.4.4 Available”
>
> Koha 3.6 Update
> by Chris Cormack
>
> We are rapidly closing in on the 3.6.0 release, so I thought it would be
> good remind everyone of the key dates.
>
>     Feature freeze – 22 September 23:59 UTC – From this point on, no new
> features will be considered for inclusion into 3.6.0
>     String freeze – 8 October 23:59 UTC – no bugs that change templates
> accepted after this point. This allows the translators to translate without
> things changing on them
>     Translations finished – 18 October 23:59 UTC – Translations submitted,
> so that they can be tested before release
>     Release – 22 October
>
> Koha 3.2 End-of-Life
>
> It was decided at the August general IRC meeting that Koha 3.2 has reached
> the end of its life.
> Koha Community
>
> New Koha Libraries
>
>     C.G. Jung Institute of New York (via ByWater Solutions)
>     CAUSE (Comfort for America’s Uniformed Services) (via ByWater
> Solutions)
>     Centenary College (via ByWater Solutions)
>     Central Kansas Library System (via ByWater Solutions)
>     All schools in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island are now
> using Koha.
>
> Community Gossip
>
> Paul Poulain of BibLibre is assisting 3.6 Quality Assurance Manager Ian
> Walls in reducing the backlog of patches waiting for QA testing.
>
> Lori Bowen Ayre is working on a spreadsheet comparing Evergreen & Koha
> features.
>
> Brenda Chawner asked community members several years ago to complete a
> survey as part of her PhD research on factors affecting satisfaction with
> the experience of a free/libre open source software project. Brenda recently
> thanked the community and provided an abstract of her PhD thesis. For more
> info, see http://markmail.org/message/gdofvpmbgseao2vb.
>
> Joy Nelson joined ByWater Solutions as their Migration Support Specialist.
>
> Melia Meggs joined ByWater Solutions as their Operations Manager.
>
> Hal Bright reports that the Farmington Libraries has integrated its Koha
> database into a mobile app powered by the Boopsie company in cooperation
> with its vendor, ByWater Solutions. For more info and a demo, see
> http://flct.boopsie.com.
>
> Equinox Software is looking to hire a Library Data and Support Specialist.
>
> ByWater Solutions is looking to hire a Perl developer for their support
> desk.
> Past Koha Events
>
> New Zealand Koha Users Group Meeting
> by Chris Cormack
>
> Today I had the great fortune of attending the first New Zealand Koha users
> group meeting, in the birthplace of Koha, Horowhenua. There were 51
> attendees and even road closures and snow didn’t stop people attending.
> There was a really good mix of Library types, I think 18 from Publics, 18
> from specials, and the rest schools, corporate and academic.
>
> It was run as an unconference so the first task of the day was to decide
> what would be talked about the rest of the day. The programme that we came
> up with was:
>
>     The community – How to get involved and make the most
>     Installation/migration/training and why should we use Koha
>     Features – what’s there, and what would we like added
>     Serials, acquisitions, cataloguing
>     Managing digital resources
>     Consortia
>     And one other I have forgotten
>
> The discussions went really well, with lots of participation. It definitely
> won’t be the last meeting, I think we are leaning towards 2 a year but
> that’s something that will be decided on the mailing lists.
>
> While we were busy plotting plans to take over the world, (or at least New
> Zealand) Koha 3.4.3 was released.
>
> Global Bug Squashing Day #3
> by Magnus Enger
>
> Global bug squashing days are dedicated to getting bugs and patches moving
> toward resolution.
>
> The third GBSD coincided with holidays and other obligations for some
> people, but we still managed to move a fair number of bugs along. These
> numbers below show how many bugs were moved to a new status during the day:
>
>     Needs Signoff: 13
>     Signed Off: 12
>     Passed QA: 6
>     Pushed: 11
>     Resolved: 30
>
> For more info, see
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-08-05_Global_bug_squashing_day.
>
> August General IRC Meeting
>
> The August general IRC meeting was held on 2 August 2011. Highlights from
> the meeting include:
>
>     Koha 3.2 has reached its end of life.
>     The bare minimum requirement for a vendor to be listed on the community
> website is a visible link to the community website on the main Koha page of
> the vendor’s website.
>     Daniel Grobani is the new newsletter editor.
>     Those interested in a role in 3.8 should express interest to the
> mailing list by 22 September for an October election.
>
> For more info, including links to the minutes, see
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_2_August_2011.
> Upcoming Koha Events
>
> Global Bug Squashing Day #4
>
> The next GBSD will occur on Friday, 2 September 2011. For more info, see
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-09-02_Global_bug_squashing_day.
>
> September General IRC Meeting
>
> The next general IRC meeting is 7 September 2011 1800 UTC. For more info,
> see
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_7_September_2011.
>
> KohaCon11
>
> KohaCon11 will be held 31 October 2011 to 6 November 2011 in Thane, India.
>
> The organizers have extended the deadline for submitting papers from 15
> August to 30 August 2011.
>
> For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:KohaCon11or
> http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11.
>
> KohaCon12
>
> Proposals for KohaCon12 are being accepted until 1 September 2011. Voting
> will take place through 1 October 2011.
>
> Proposals have been made by software.coop in the UK and Washoe County
> Library System in Reno, Nevada, USA.
>
> For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:KohaCon12.
>
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-- 
Joann Ransom RLIANZA
Head of Libraries,
Horowhenua Library Trust.
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