5.30pm tonight at the Madison Hotel (upstairs)
52 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills (opposite Central Station).About me
I worked on the original release of
Koha and it is a real pleasure to be touring the world as a Koha ambassador. I recently left Horowhenua Library Trust in New
Zealand where I had been the boss for the last
6 years. After raising my 4 children I am ready for fresh challenges starting with 3 months
travelling the globe meeting the Koha community members and talking about Koha and Te Takere, Horowhenua's new library, culture and community centre.
About Koha
Koha, the world's first open source library management system, was developed in 1999 by Horowhenua Library Trust in 1999.“Releasing Koha under an open source licence made so much
sense to us; we were a public library not a software development company and we
needed a much wider pool of librarians to develop the software further”. Today Koha is one of the world’s most widely used library
management systems with a strong development community that provides 24/7
support.
I will be attending the Koha-Oz meetup tonight as a guest of Bob and Irma Birchall of Calyx.
In addition to my work on Koha, which won the 2000 3M Award
for Innovation in Libraries, I was the first librarian outside of USA to be
named an American Library Journal Mover and Shaker – Tech Leader, largely for my work developing Kete, another open source project that won the 2008 3M
Award for Innovation in Libraries and a 2007 World Summit Awards : Special
Mention (North America and Oceania) in the e-inclusion section.
The #kohaworldtour includes Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Mumbai,
Pune, London, Prague, Olumouc, Vienna, Berlin, Dublin, Norway, Sweden,
Marseille, Washington, New York, Vermont, Montreal, Kansas, Oregon and San
Francisco.
For further information about the Koha-Oz meetup tonight please contact Irma Birchall, Irma@calyx.net.au
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