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Kohacon21
Chris Cormack
A short history of Koha
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Who am I?
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- Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha
- One of the original Koha developers
- Works at Catalyst IT
- Lives in Wellington, New Zealand
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The beginning
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CC-BY-SA Kristina D.C. Hoeppner
- Started in late 1999
- Y2K fix
- Horowhenua Library Trust
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The first year
- Went live January 3 2000
- 1.0 released June 2000
- First full web ILS
- 4 people have code in Koha
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The name - Koha
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1. (noun) gift, present, offering, donation, contribution - especially one maintaining social relationships and has connotations of reciprocity.
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2001-2005
- Bugzilla set up
- Koha wiki set up
- MARC standards added
- HTML::Template
- End of 2005 - 39 People have code in Koha
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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
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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
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2015-2021
- Version number changes - 16.05 first
- Manual switches to sphinx
- Elasticsearch added
- As of 2021 449 people have code in Koha
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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
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Lessons
- Coopetition
- One Koha
- Open Meetings
- Transparency
- Consensus
- Inclusivity
- Robust processes
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Stories
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The future
That's up to you!
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Kohacon21 - history of Koha
By Chris Cormack
Kohacon21 - history of Koha
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