KohaCon 2010, the international conference of users and developers of the Koha library management system, is to be held in Wellington New Zealand from 25 October to 2 November 2010. This three day conference will be followed by a hackfest. The conference, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Koha, will be held at the Wellington Convention [...]
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The launch of koha-community.org is a sure sign of the strength and vibrancy of the world wide Koha community.
February 8, 2010 –
On February 3, the world wide community of Koha users and developers launched a temporary website to provide improved access to project knowledge and to facilitate the sharing of information about project developments. The new web site is at http://koha-community.org. The launch was announced by Galen Charlton, Release Manager for Koha 3.2. The domain is [...]
Langri Tangpa Centre chooses Koha hosted by Calyx
October 20, 2009 –
Langri Tangpa Centre, a non-profit centre for Tibetan Buddhist meditation and teaching in Brisbane, Australia, has chosen a hosted Koha solution for the automation of its library collection. The Koha installation will be hosted off site at the state of the art data centre of CALYX information essentials. Langri Tangpa Centre has also contracted with [...]
Four Freedoms of Free and Open Source Software
May 25, 2009 –
Recently on an ALIA list there was discussion about open source software and whether it was really ‘free’. It is a confusion we frequently encounter. CALYX does not sell software, but we do sell services to support the deployment of free and open source software (FOSS). Generally using FOSS will save costs over closed source [...]
