This from the Koha mailing list:
Hi folks,
I’m happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00 is now available. You can download from the usual location:
http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz
http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig
Release notes and more information can be found on the official Koha site.
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If you’re in they Cherry Hill area next week you might want to come to my class:
August 13: Tech Talk: All Grown Up: Open Source for Libraries: “Open Source” - a term you may have heard thrown about at conferences and on mailing lists - but what does it mean? This session will not only define the term “Open Source” but will show librarians exactly how it can be used within their libraries.
Learn to separate the myths from the facts, learn about the tools that are available to your libraries and most importantly learn about how open source can free you from the costs associated with many proprietary library products. Click here for complete details and registration form.
You can never have too many blogs on open source and libraries! That’s why you should subscribe to Howard County’s new Open Source blog.
Howard County Library finds open source software to be perfectly at home within the library profession - where access to information is free and unrestricted.
It has been added to my blogroll!
I’d love to hear if any libraries are planning a Software Freedom Day event on September 20th, 2008.
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.
If you didn’t know about the day and want to host an event at your library - check out the official page and register your event.
This is interesting:
The Open Solutions Alliance (which you might recall as one of the sponsors of the Open Source Census) has released the results of a survey it did recently looking at business trends in commercial open source. The results paint a picture of an industry segment doing well, with a few challenges looming but easy continued growth.
Although most open source proponents probably think of the code’s openness as its best feature, that was not the #1 driver for adoption of open source in the survey participants’ customers. Rather, 79% cited price as the most important reason for choosing open source solutions.
I’m wondering if the library world was consulted in this survey. I find that many library administrators seem to think that if the price is low then the product probably isn’t worth switching to.
Read the entire report at OSTATIC.
This article sounds interesting:
The open source digital library software Greenstone is demonstrated running on an iPod. The standalone configuration supports browsing, searching and displaying documents in a range of media formats. Plugged in to a host computer (Mac, Linux, or Windows), the exact same facilities are made available to the world through a built-in web server.
I don’t have access to this publication - if you’ve read this, let me know what you think.