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As this is my blog and I can do what I want with it, I’m using it for note taking.

Also follow the action at: http://www.nexpresslibrary.org/kohacon-09 (or search Twitter for kohacon09) Having met Chris and Paul last night, I’m excited to hear them talk about the history of Koha, born 1999.  Famous words, “It’s just a database, how hard can it be?”  It’s the insane rules and exceptions that stole all his sleep.  By 2002, BibLibre entered the scene.  I wish we still had the IRC town hall meetings, those would be interesting to see (on IRC).  The issue of ‘standards’ was an issue, so the French, English and others could use it.  This is great – I love hearing the history.  The English major in me is interested in the role press and FAQ writing played in promoting and supporting Koha.    Kaitiaki – means? (Maori for ‘guardianship’)  I’ll have to look it up.  www.kohadocs.org and more press articles – all written by users and contributed to the project.

Community organization – Kaitiaki as the guardian, Release Manager to deal with new features of next stable version and Release Maintainer to deal with current version and patches (validate and commit) and Document Manager for kohadocs.org.  Tried and failed to get QA Managers (hard and thankless)…needed, but have to handle rejection and conflict well, but not too well.

2005 – LibLime for local US support.  Paul and Henri went into partnership.  Koha 2.2 released. Fulltext searching and new http://www.koha.org. www.koha-community.org

It’s all about the community…boy wouldn’t kohacon2006 have been FUN!

Now onto 2007 and 3.0 (enter NExpress) with LibLime.  Koha Days – one day a month, you work on features that no one is paying to fix.  What a good idea!  Also fix back-end problems and messes.  Now too busy with paid work (so can NExpress ‘sponsor’ more Koha Days?).

2008 – koha 3.0, Dehli public library, Nichole worked on the Koha Manual, LibLime and BibLibre grew.  Mason and Chris left LibLime, but Chris has been on sabatical for about a year.  3.0 a BIG change and 3.2 will be even BIGGER.

2009 – The present – Video!  K’s helping Hand, Koha & SOPAC (BibLibre development) and today 🙂

Koha – a gift with strings – bring koha when you go to a friend’s house for dinner.  Take, but expect to give back in the future.

More notes: http://dbouman.blogspot.com/ – Danny’s blog and LibLime’s blog.  Chris picked PERL b/c his open source business already used it and there was a PERL library and MANY programmers.  Programmers are a good kind of lazy – efficient!

SQL Structure and Koha Data Tables – Paul Poulain

Interested to hear what Diana found out in the |biblios.net for Catalogers session – Kathryn did a good job twittering the Square Peg/Round Hole OSS v. Proprietary ILS session.  Lunch. hunger. food.




