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KohaCon10: Koha Governance
Bob Birchall stepped up next to talk to us about his observations and options for Koha governance. Governance is not management! I love that way of thinking of it. Governance is generally run by a...
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KohaCon10: What to Expect in Koha 3.4
Chris Cormack the first release manager for Koha was up next to talk about Koha 3.4 which he is also release manager for! Koha 3.2 was a big feature release, 3.4 is going to have some new features, but...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Library Data for Fun & Profit
David Friggens gave us a very animated (slides and speaker) talk about how to present our information in different ways to our patrons. First example was from the University of Dundee and their serials...
View ArticleKohaCon10: eBooks: Why they break ISBNs
Stuart Yeates was up first on day two of the conference. Stuart stated by showing us the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre a very awesome looking site that takes digital texts and enhances them with...
View ArticleKohaCon10: A cooperative view
MJ Ray was up next to talk about co-operatives (co-ops). First up a definition of co-ops from the International Co-operative Alliance. “A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Koha in Schools
Mark Osborne from Albany Senior High School, New Zealand’s first open source high school, was up next. Slides are already online at Prezi.com. At the high school, they pretty quickly found that there...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Sharing is Good
François Marier was up next to tell us how to convince our bosses (well library bosses) that sharing is good! Before talking about software freedom, let’s take a look at non-free software. François...
View ArticleKohaCon10: History of Koha
Paul Poulain from BibLibre was first after lunch to give us the history of Koha. He started with a recap of what we heard from Rosalie on the first day – Koha was developed to meet the needs of of HLT,...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Koha in Prison
Irma Birchall and Sue Lavery are up next to talk about Koha when it’s not the code that’s locked up (because the library is in a prison). The prison in question was built to focus on both incarceration...
View ArticleKohaCon10: How to Participate
I obviously couldn’t blog myself so Ian Walls wrote up my session on the ByWater Solutions blog and I’m going to share it with you here (with his permission). —————- A presentation by our very own...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Koha in Malaysia
Amzari Abu Bakar came up after me to talk about the Koha experience in Malaysia. Amzari started by telling us about the systems that libraries in Malaysia are using – they run the gambit from home...
View ArticleKohaCon10: From LAMP to Koha
Farasat Shafi-Ullah from SCME National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan was the first up this morning and we all gave him a huge round of applause for taking a 5 day...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Promoting Free Software in Libraries
Donald Christie from Catalyst was up first after lunch to talk to us about celebrating, promoting and supporting free software in libraries. First up – Freedom. With free software we have the freedom...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Open Library and Koha
George Oates from the Open Library project was up next to tell us how we can use Koha with the Open Library. The Open Library started with records from something like 30 libraries and now anyone can...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Presentation Map
David Friggens put together an awesome Prezi map of the presentations at Koha – make sure you check it out later when he’s updated it with the final links and such. .prezi-player { width: 550px; }...
View ArticleKohaCon10: 10 years in 10 minutes
The final session at KohaCon yesterday was a video of Koha development over 10 years. I didn’t write it up because there’s not much to say, but now that the video is up online I can share that with you...
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KohaCon10: Intro to Git
Andrew Ruthven was up first this morning at the hackfest to tell us about using Git. For those who don’t know Git is what we use to keep track of changes to Koha files. With git we can track changes to...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Ideas for Koha 4.0
Up next our own Ian Walls to talk about his awesome visions for where we can go with Koha 4.0! Ian warned us that the following could all be ideological and naive and we have to remember that they are...
View ArticleKohaCon10: Additional Posts
In addition to my posts on KohaCon10 others posted information they learned and shared at the conference – I thought I should share that here so that you all can keep up with everything Koha and...
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KohaCon12: Koha 3.8 What’s New?
Paul was up first talking about Koha 3.8. He highlighted for us the features he thought were most important. First some numbers! 1087 changes were made to the source code! Some were small and some...
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