he panui Koha 11 March 2003 Hello, it's time again for another of my slightly irregular newsletters. There are a couple of things I'd like to let everyone know about and this seems the best way to do it. First, we've got a couple of changes to the management group: - Ingrid Lacis has agreed to take on the role of QA/Testing for us. She'll be heading up an effort to create tests to help us develop a better, faster, more error-free Koha going forward. Please join me in wishing her welcome and lending your support to this important initiative. - With his new job, Nicholas Rososco (who wears many hats for Koha) is going to be stepping down as the Translation Manager as soon as a suitable replacement is found. Nick will continue on as our Documentation Manager. If you're interested in getting deeply involved in the translation, localization, etc. effort, please drop me an email. - With the 2.0 series just around the corner, we're starting to talk about 2.1/2.2. One of the key pieces of making this work is to have someone in the driver's seat. Steve Tonnesen has graciously accepted this position. Another important piece of the 2.1/2.2 puzzle is building a solid vision for Koha's future. One place I'd like this to happen is on the koha2010 mailing list. This list is intended to be a place where non-technical discussion about features, enhancements, and the like can occur. As ideas take shape on this list, they can be moved over to the koha-devel mailing list for technical discussion about how to implement them. More information about the mailinglist is available from http://www.kohalabs.com/projects/koha2010/mail.html (including subscription info). On a different front, work is moving along on a Win32 Koha installer. At this point you can get a working Koha system set up on a windows system if you can get perl, apache, and mysql there. A new version of the installer may take care of these for you as well. Paul is hard at work on the 2.0 series, and we hope to see a 1.9.1 release quite soon. I've recently posted a request for developers to help clean up the bug database at bugs.koha.org -- if you've noticed a problem with Koha, please submit a bug report at that web page. We'd really like to get all of the bugs squashed. (BTW, one squashed and one that seems to have been squashed already ... and in under 30 minutes) And, as one last request for this newsletter, If you're currently using, migrating to, or testing Koha please add yourself to the koha users list at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaUsers (editing this page is easy to do). Getting the word out about Koha means a wider pool of users and developers ... and a better Koha. thanks, -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org