Hi, Here are some notes from the first day of hackfest: * A total of 34 kittens were saved [1]. In other words, a number of bugs were worked on, tested, QAed, and pushed. * Several tutorial sessions took place, including a session on Koha bug reporting and patch testing fundamentals led by Bob Birchall and a tutorial on Git and navigating the Koha source tree lead by myself. * Several folks had a lengthy discussion about various issues regarding search and indexing. A couple short-term projects initiated today include dealing with a bug concerning retrieving oversize ISO 2709 records from Zebra and a project to switch facet calculation over to using Zebra's built-in faceting. There was also discussion of the idea of using Elasticsearch as a complement to Zebra and Solr. * Chris Cormack helped a library upgrade their Koha database from (I think) 3.6 all the way to 3.12 ... in 27 minutes. Tomorrow tutorial sessions on DBIx::Class and Class::Accessor are planned as well as a roundtable on digging into Zebra's internals. For folks wanting to play along at home, lists of wishlist items [2] and notes from the conference roundtables [3] are available on the wiki. I'm sure this summary is incomplete, and I encourage other hackfest attendees to supplement it. [1] http://scoreboard.koha-community.org/ [2] http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon13/Hackfest/Wishlist [3] http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon13/Roundtable_Notes Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org