Biblibre has announced a demo of their SOPAC/Koha installation on their blog. The post was in French, so I’ll summarize for you.
You can access their very awesome demo online at: http://demo.sopac.biblibre.com/. It is important to remember this is just a test install for us to test and for them to play with - so if you have comments as you poke around, be sure to contact them and let them know what you learned.
There is a great article in the recent Code4Lib Journal release about developing open source applications. How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source by Joann Ransom with Chris Cormack and Rosalie Blake talks about the process of developing Koha:
In 2000 a small public library system in New Zealand developed and released Koha, the world’s first open source library management system. This is the story of how that came to pass and why, and of the lessons learnt in their first foray into developing in open source.
Make sure you read the entire thing to learn all about the Koha project.
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Koha 3.0.2 Stable has been released on download.koha.org Its name is koha-3.00.02.tar.gz
This release is bug a series of bug fixes only and doesn’t include new features.
The next release scheduled in July will include features which are now in master but not ported yet to stable because of required database changes. The next release will inlcude many new enhanced features like integration of LibraryThing, Syndetics, Baker&Taylor, Babeltheque, and BranchTransferLimits.
This release of Koha 3.0.2 includes the following general improvements over the previous release fixes :
A total of 178 commits for bug fixes are listed in the release notes.
Will I finally get to visit NZ? Looks like there is going to be a 10th anniversary KohaCon in NZ - the birthplace of Koha. Keep an eye on this page of the Koha wiki to see how things move along!!
I just have to get them to plan it during one of hubby’s breaks from school - cause I am not traveling across the world without him!! 
I wrote about the first five in this series last week - now for the most recent update to the Unsung Heroes of Koha series from Chris Cormack:
David Schuster has announced a meeting of KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers of Open Source) at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago.
Date: Sunday, 7/12/2009
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago (not the Hyatt that’s close to the
convention center)
Room: Grand Suite 3
As some of you know I’m a fan of Yahoo! Pipes and wrote a chapter about using Pipes with Koha for my upcoming Library Mashups book. Well, today I got 2 emails from Darrell Ulm at Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library telling me that he wrote 2 Pipes for his Koha installation.
The first one lets you search a Koha catalog (Stow-Monroe Falls in the example) and create a feed or badge for that.
The second is much cooler (in my opinion) and can be seen in action on the Stow-Munroe catalog homepage. It shows the upcoming titles as a series of book jackets or jackets and title info.
If you’re doing something neat with Koha RSS feeds - or anything neat with Koha, let me know and I’ll gladly share it with everyone
Chris Cormack has been writing a series of posts about the unsung heroes of Koha. The first five parts were written last week are an well worth a read if you want to learn more about the history of Koha and those involved.
I found this on The Social Opac’s official site:
BibLibre’s Nicolas Morin gave a presentation last week called “SOPAC: Connecting Drupal and Koha” where he talks about BibLibre’s experience with SOPAC and getting a Locum connector to work with Koha. Check it out:
Last week one of the Koha Librarians created a page on the Koha Wiki for everyone to share their Custom Reports/SQL statements. This from Owen at Athens County:
Koha users have begun building a library of useful SQL statements for use in building Koha reports. It’s on the Koha Wiki. You can add your own or put in a request for a report you’d like to know how to do. If you’d like to contribute you can either register on the site or use OpenID to log in. If you’ve never edited a wiki before, be sure to check out the Formatting Syntax article before you jump in.
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