[Koha] OpenBook Beta Technical release

[Deirdre McDonough]

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 at trfoundation.org
http://www.trfoundation.org