Official Koha Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 12: December 2011 [Below is the text of the newsletter. For active links and a more readable format, please visit http://koha-community.org/koha-newsletter-volume-2-issue-12-december-2011] Official Koha Newsletter (ISSN 2153-8328) Volume 2, Issue 12: December 2012 Edited by Daniel Grobani, Koha Community Newsletter Editor. Please submit news items to danielg.koha@gmail.com. Table of Contents Koha Development Koha 3.6.2 Released Koha 3.4.7 Released Koha 3.2.11 Released Koha 3.4.8 Status Koha Community New Koha Libraries Community Gossip Koha in Fiji Past Koha Events December General IRC Meeting Global Bug Squashing Day 2011-12-07 Upcoming Koha Events January General IRC Meeting Global Bug Squashing Day 2011-01-06 Marseilles Hackfest Koha Development Koha 3.6.2 Released by Chris Nighswonger It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.6.2. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.02.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.02.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.02.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.06.02.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.6.2 are at http://koha-community.org/koha-3-6-2. Koha 3.4.7 Released by Chris Nighswonger It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.4.7. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.04.07.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.4.7 are at http://koha-community.org/koha-3-4-7. Koha 3.2.11 Released by Chris Nighswonger It is with pleasure that I announce the release of Koha 3.2.11. The package can be retrieved from: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.11.tar.gz You can use the following checksum and signature files to verify the download: http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.11.tar.gz.MD5 http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.11.tar.gz.MD5.asc http://download.koha-community.org/koha-3.02.11.tar.gz.sig Release notes for 3.2.11 are at http://koha-community.org/koha-3-2-11. Koha 3.4.8 Status by Chris Nighswonger Koha 3.4.8 will be released on 14 January 2012. The 3.4.x branch will enter a string freeze on 8 Jan 2012 00:00 UTC. Koha Community New Koha Libraries Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular – Programa por la Paz (via Organizadatos) Colegio San Bartolomé La Merced (via Organizadatos) Corporación Universitaria CENDA (via Organizadatos) Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas, SINCHI (via Organizadatos) Red de Museodata para Bibliotecas de Museos (via Organizadatos) Community Gossip Equinox Software has bought a new office building and is moving into it. Kyle Hall has updated his Koha virtual appliances to 3.6, a complete rebuild using Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) instead of Lenny. For more info, see http://millruntech.com/koha/koha-virtual-appliances. Owen Leonard is working on replacing the YUI Library in Koha with jQueryUI. For more info, see his blog post at http://www.myacpl.org/koha/?p=701. Stefano Bargioni has made available MARCgrep.pl, a Perl script to filter or count MARC records based on the contents of tag names, indicators, or subfields. For more info, see http://en.pusc.it/bib/MARCgrep. Koha in Fiji by Smita Biswas I was seconded along with the Manager of Tauranga City Library, Jill Best, to implement Koha in the first public library in Fiji. The Nadi Town Council Library went live on Dec 6 2011 on version 3.6. We did it as a pilot project, which took about 4 months for me to learn and install on a local machine and then assist the Nadi Council IT officer to download a stable release. I then visited Nadi for a week along with Jill for implementation and training. We did a simple LAN set up between the Server and two staff machines, one being used for circulation and other for cataloguing and acquistion. Hopefully they will able to host their database on the web in the future. There is considerable interest among other Fiji public libraries, due to the enthusiastic campaign by Jill, who has been a long-time volunteer and donor of books to the Fiji Libraries. Since I had never worked with Koha or Linux I was finding it quite hard in the beginning just following the downloading instructions from the wiki. I am very grateful for the help provided by Steven and Richard from Technology Wise Ltd, Tauranga, NZ. They were amazing, they took me under their wing and assisted me with the first install. Thereafter I could do a second install under Richard’s guidance. Richard was also very good in assisting the Nadi Council IT officer to do the install, including working on his server remotely when the Council IT officer found it hard going due to lack of experience and knowledge of Linux. I also need to thank Paul Nielsen, Library Manager of Hauraki District Council Library, NZ, for helping me with the system settings. What a great user group we have here!! I am definitely a Koha convert now, seeing how easy it is to install and implement–this coming from a Librarian (with some systems backgroaund). I hope to convince our Council IT to consider Koha in future. I am also happy to talk to any other groups or libraries about my experience of doing this project. Jill is already lining me up for next year for Suva libraries and maybe Solomon Islands. I am just taking a breather at the moment. It was very very hot… Smita Biswas, ALIANZA, RLIANZA Collections & Information Manager Tauranga City Library Tauranga City Council Ph 07 5777260 M 0275999241 E smita.biswas@tauranga.govt.nz www.tauranga.govt.nz Past Koha Events December General IRC Meeting The December general IRC meeting was held on 7 December 2011. For more info, including the agenda and links to the minutes, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_7_December_2011. Global Bug Squashing Day 2011-12-07 by Magnus Enger A Global Bug Sqashing Day was held on 7 December 2011, and there was much rejoicing. For the numbers, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-12-07_Global_bug_squashing_day. Upcoming Koha Events January General IRC Meeting The January general IRC meeting will be held on 4 January 2012. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_4_January_2012. Global Bug Squashing Day 2012-01-06 by Magnus Enger Global Bug Squashing Days are days designated to a concerted effort to get bugs and patches moving along in the right direction. The next GBSD will be 6 January 2012. For more info, see http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2012-01-06_Global_bug_squashing_day. Marseilles Hackfest by Paul Poulain BibLibre will be hosting a hackfest in Marseilles, France, from Monday to Friday, 19-23 March 2012. For more info, see http://drupal.biblibre.com/en/blog/entry/2012-hackfest-in-europe.