[Koha] Official Koha Newsletter : Volume 2, Issue 10: October 2011

[Daniel Grobani]

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Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328)
Volume 2, Issue 10: October 2011

Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor.
Please submit news items to danielg.koha at gmail.com.

Table of Contents

    Koha Developments
        Koha 3.4.5 Released
        Koha 3.6.0 Released
        Enhanced Koha 3.6.x Release Notes
        Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, Which Witch?
        Koha 3.8.0 Release Team Elected
        A Message from the Koha 3.8.0 Release Manager
    Koha Community
        New Koha Libraries
        Community Gossip
        Koha in a Norwegian Library School
        Koha OPAC Web App
    Past Koha Events
        Koha 3.6.0 Released During Access2011 Conference
        October General IRC Meeting
    Upcoming Koha Events
        KohaCon11
        Global Bug Squashing Day Proposed
        November General IRC Meeting
        KohaCon12: Welcome to Edinburgh!

Koha Developments

Koha 3.4.5 Released
by Chris Nighswonger

It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.5.

The package can be retrieved from:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz

You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the
download:

http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz.MD5
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz.MD5.asc
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.05.tar.gz.sig

Release notes for 3.4.5 are below the fold.

Come and get it!

Continue reading “Koha 3.4.5 Available” »

Koha 3.6.0 Released
by Chris Cormack

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.0.

This is major feature release, containing 85 enhancements and 356 bugfixes.
A total of 728 patches have been included from 60 developers in this
release. A big thanks goes out to all of them, plus all the other people
involved in this release.

You can download this release at
http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.00.000.tar.gz or you can wait
a couple of days for the packages to appear at
http://debian.koha-community.org.

Release notes are available below the fold.

Continue reading “Koha 3.6.0 Released” »

Enhanced Koha 3.6.x Release Notes
by Nicole Engard

Just like with the release of 3.4, I have edited the release notes for Koha
3.6 to include links to related manual pages and tutorial videos. I hope
this helps you find the new features in your Koha installation.

For more info, see
http://bywatersolutions.com/2011/10/28/koha-3-6-x-release-notes

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead, Which Witch?
by Chris Cormack

This guy!

With the release of Koha 3.6.0 my tenure as Release Manager is over. I’d
like to thank everyone who has helped my the last 2 releases happen.

I am of course not leaving the community, but I am now freed up to do more
coding again. Also, as I am no longer RM I can speak a little more freely
about things which is nice also.

I am sure Koha 3.8.0 will be a great release, and I hope to get a bunch of
my code into it also.

The RM is dead! Long live the RM!

Koha 3.8.0 Release Team Elected
by Chris Cormack

During the October General IRC meeting, amongst a lot of other discussion
and agenda items, the positions for the 3.8 release of Koha were filled.
Congratulations to all those appointed:

    Release Manager: Paul Poulain, BibLibre, France
    Release Maintainer: Chris Nighswonger, FBC, USA (Unless someone
volunteers before the 3.6.0 release)
    QA Manager: Ian Walls, ByWater Solutions, USA
    Assistant QA Managers: Marcel de Rooy, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands;
Jonathan Druart, BibLibre, France
    Translation Manager: Frédéric Demians, Tamil, France
    Assistant Translation Manager: Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany
    Documentation Manager: Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions, USA
    Bug Wranglers: Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany; Magnus Enger, Libriotech,
Norway; Owen Leonard, ACPL, USA
    Packaging Manager: Robin Sheat, Catalyst IT, New Zealand
    Assistant Packaging Manager: Mason James, KohaAloha, New Zealand
    Bus Driver (AKA meeting chair): Brooke Johnson, USA

We are still looking for people to be Module Champions, what this role
entails is advocating for a module of Koha. Do you think circulation is
important? You could be the Circulation Champion, how about serials? You
know you have secretly always wanted to take ownership of a section of Koha
you care about, now is your chance!

A Message from the Koha 3.8.0 Release Manager
by Paul Poulain

Koha 3.6.0 has been released, so it’s time to start working on Koha 3.8.0.
I’ve been chosen as Release Manager, which is a big responsibility. I’ll
continue the good work Chris has done and promote some new ideas or ways of
doing things.

In the next weeks, I plan to submit a global roadmap that will include
short-term as well as long-term goals for Koha, on both functional and
technical areas. Stay tuned on the koha-devel mailing list if you’re
interested. And don’t hesitate to join us and participate!
Koha Community

New Koha Libraries

    Cornish College of the Arts (via ByWater Solutions)
    Corpus Christi Public Libraries (via ByWater Solutions)
    Fox Chase Cancer Centers’s Talbot Research Library (via ByWater
Solutions)
    Green Mountain College’s Griswold Library (via ByWater Solutions)
    Kenya Human Rights Commission Resource Center (via Busara Core
Solutions)
    Service Commun de la Documentation de l’Université de Limoges (via
BibLibre)

Community Gossip

Chris Nighswonger has been working on getting the master branch of Koha
running on Windows XP. He’s posted his progress to the wiki at
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.4.

Adrien Saurat has joined BibLibre as Support/Maintenance Manager.

Gaetan Boisson has joined BibLibre as Project Lead.

Nicole Engard has made her fast add framework even faster. Details are at
http://bywatersolutions.com/2011/10/17/faster-fast-add-framework-redux.

Kathryn Tyree has joined Catalyst as Koha project manager.

Robin Sheat of Catalyst will be giving a talk titled “Koha: Bringing
libraries into the present day” at the OSDC conference in Canberra,
Australia, on 16 November. For more info, see
http://osdc.com.au/schedule/#kohabringinglibra.

And lots of people are doing lots of fun things at KohaCon11!

Koha in a Norwegian Library School
by Magnus Enger

The library program at the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied
Sciences (http://www.hioa.no/eng/) is now offering personal Koha
installations to all first and second year students – a total of about 225
students. Installations will be used during the whole of the education,
including for mandatory assignments in cataloging. The installations
utilize the Debian packages, and the university college is handling all
hosting and installation in-house.

Koha OPAC Web App
by Stefano Bargioni

I’ve created a Koha OPAC for smartphones and tablets. It is located at
http://catalogo.pusc.it/mobile/ and can be accessed not only from
smartphones but also from desktop PCs using any modern browser. It is a
very simple OPAC interface, up to now.

Based on jQuery Mobile, it accesses Koha using its SRU server. So it is not
an app, nor a set of CSS that adapt Koha web pages to little screens. It is
a web app, if I may say so.

For more info, contact bargioni at pusc.it.
Past Koha Events

Koha 3.6.0 Released During Access2011 Conference
by Chris Cormack

Last Thursday 20th October I gave a talk at Access2011: The Library is Open
in Vancouver titled Tātou tātou: Caring and sharing in a Free and Open
source Project. The talk focused on lessons learned by the Koha community
that would be of interest to other emerging open source software
communities.

It was particularly appropriate to the international nature of the Koha
community that a kiwi guy could write the release notes, push patches and
release Koha 3.6.0 while away in Vancouver.

As many of you know Koha 3.6.0 was a major and very satisfying release to
be part of. With 85 enhancements and 356 bugfixes Koha 3.6.0 included 728
patches from 60 developers. You can find out who those developers were and
what they contributed here. The release notes are published here.

One last huge thanks to everyone that contributed to to 3.6.0 and all the
best to the release team for 3.8.0!

October General IRC Meeting

The October general IRC meeting was held on 5 October 2011. For more info,
including the agenda and links to the minutes, see
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_5_October_2011.
Upcoming Koha Events

KohaCon11

KohaCon11 is being held 31 October 2011 to 6 November 2011 in Thane, India.

The program for KohaCon11 is at
http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11/schedConf/program.

For more info, see http://kohacon11.vpmthane.org/ocs/index.php/k/k11.

Global Bug Squashing Day Proposed
by Magnus Enger

Dear Community!

After colluding with my fellow bug wrangler Katrin I’d like to propose 04
November as the date of the next GBSD:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-11-04_Global_bug_squashing_day.

This coincides with the first day of the hackfest at KohaCon11. Maybe we
could get a bit of a Google Hangout going, or something? We’ll see…

Anyway: Be there or be [_]!

November General IRC Meeting

The November general IRC meeting will be held on 16 November 2011. For more
info, see
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_16_November_2011.

KohaCon12: Welcome to Edinburgh!
by MJ Ray

I’d like to send thanks from software.coop to everyone who voted for
Edinburgh in the recent vote. I look forward to welcoming you next summer
and we’ll release more details as soon as they are confirmed, as well as
asking for feedback on a couple of social event ideas.

2012 is software.coop’s tenth anniversary and also the United Nations
International Year of Co-operatives, so it’s a great time for a celebration
and collaboration. On that note, I’d also like to thank the people who have
sent expressions of interest in helping out with running the event. We’ll
ask other co-ops to assist too, but we may well take up some of these
offers.

Finally, all the best to the KohaCon11 team for the conference that’s about
to start. I’m sorry I’m not there, but we’ve already started work on
KohaCon12. Have a great time for us and I look forward to hearing much news
from India!
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