The history of Koha
Who am I?
- Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha
- One of the original Koha developers
- Kaihuawaere Matihiko at Catalyst.Net
- Lives in Wellington, New Zealand
- +64274500789
Nō hea ahau?
A small connection
The name - Koha
1. (noun) gift, present, offering, donation, contribution - especially one maintaining social relationships and has connotations of reciprocity.
Mana tāngata
To be a person is not to stand alone, but to be one with one's
people, and the deeper the oneness the more we are truly persons
and have that mana tangata.
- Michael P Shirres : 2000
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua
I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past
The beginning
CC-BY-SA Kristina D.C. Hoeppner
- Started in late 1999
- Y2K fix
- Horowhenua Library Trust
- Rosalie Blake
The first year
- Went live January 3 2000
- 1.0 released June 2000
- First fully web ILS
- 4 people have code in Koha
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
2015-2021
- Version number changes - 16.05 first
- Manual switches to sphinx
- Elasticsearch added
- As of 2021 449 people have code in Koha
2021 - Now
- Recalls added
- ERM feature added to Koha
- Staff site redesign
- As of now 481 people have code in Koha
Replacing laptops
Onesies
Laurel's Art
Remember the code is only important because of the community it serves
Kohacon24 in India?
The request for proposals to host KohaCon24 is open until April 18 2023 23:59 UTC
The community has agreed that KohaCon conferences must be either:
- hybrid with an in-person conference streamed online,
- or entirely online.
This allows for greater accessibility, so that everyone can attend and learn from each other no matter their availability, ability to travel, or budget.
For hybrid conferences, the rules for continent rotation apply.
Therefore, for 2024, the following continents are eligible:
- Africa
- Asia
- South America
- Oceania
Koha history
By Chris Cormack
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