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Chris Cormack

A short history of Koha

The beginning

CC-BY-SA Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Started in late 1999
Y2K fix
Horowhenua Library Trust

The first year

Went live January 3 2000
1.0 released June 2000
First full web ILS
4 people have code in Koha

The name - Koha

1. (noun) gift, present, offering, donation, contribution - especially one maintaining social relationships and has connotations of reciprocity.

2001-2005

Bugzilla set up
Koha wiki set up
MARC standards added
HTML::Template
End of 2005 - 39 People have code in Koha

2006-2010

First Kohacon
Move to Zebra
Move from sourceforge cvs to savannah cvs, then to git
The Liblime issue
By end of 2010 - 130 people have code in Koha

2011-2015

Switch to time based releases - 3.4 the first
Switch to Template::Toolkit
Trademark battle over
End of 2015 - 305 people have code in Koha

2015-now

Version number changes - 16.05 first
Manual switches to sphinx
Elasticsearch added
As of now 401 people have code in Koha

Now

"I generally agree with Catalyst that the number of implementations around the world is something in the 15,000 range.
I often mention in my talks that it is likely that Koha is the most implemented ILS globally."

- Marshall Breeding

Lessons

Coopetition
One Koha
Open Meetings
Transparency
Consensus
Inclusivity
Robust processes

Koha at Catalyst

37610 Commits in total - 3162 Catalyst
One of 53 support companies around the world
Started doing Koha work in 2009
6 People on team, but only 5 FTE
47 clients
Currently no elected roles in the community
Deploy code the project way, not a Catalyst specific way
All code we upstream (except that one time we didn't once)