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Koha Camp at Code4Lib, February 25 by John Houser - Friday, 1 February 2008, 11:37 AM

The next Koha Camp is scheduled to be offered as a pre-conference at Code4Lib, in Portland, OR, February 25. Here's the agenda: Morning Session Introduction to Koha (9:30am - 10:30am) - Joshua Ferraro * Brief history of the Koha project * Quick demo of sample OPACs, Staff client * How contributions get included in the releases * KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers of Open Source) User's Group * Koha Software Foundation * Koha Architecture Overview * API Support * Koha Demos (OPAC and Staff Client) Git Koha - Distributed Version Control (10:45am - 12:00pm) - Galen Charlton * 20-minute introduction to Git -- distributed version control system * Install Koha in developer sandbox mode (dev target) * Contribution howto: Make a change, test it, format a patch, submit it Lunch (12:00pm - 1:00pm) Afternoon Session Hack on 3.0 Beta (1:00pm - 4:00pm) - Galen Charlton et al * Fixing real live bugs o Prior to Koha Camp, some small (i.e., fixable by changing just one or two lines of code) bugs will be identified and reported in the Koha bugs database. o Participants will have an opportunity to work on these bugs and submit patches. Koha Camp Wrapup (4:00pm - 4:30pm) * Open Discussion, wrapup

Available Courses

• Koha Camp - PALINET

  • Presenter: Galen Charlton
  • Presenter: Joshua Ferraro

    

  This Koha Camp took place at PALINET, in Philadelphia, January 11, 2008.
  
• Koha Camp - Code4Lib

  You've heard about the open-source movement in libraries, now's your chance to participate in it! KohaCamp is designed for library coders interested in getting involved in development and community-building of the Koha Integrated Library System. It's a place where teams of software developers team up and solve real-world problems.
  
  By the end of the KohaCamp event, you will be able to:
  

  • Navigate through the Koha community, find and communicate with other Koha users throughout the world
  • Install and configure Koha 3
  • Understand and navigate the source code tree using Git (revision control system)
    
  • Make improvements to Koha templates, modules, scripts, and/or utilities
  • Send your improvements as patches to the Koha community, for inclusion in the next version

  Every attendee will be provided with a 'Koha Developer's Toolkit', designed to lower the barrier to entry for installation and submission of enhancements to the Koha project, and a Virtual Machine on a hosted server for use during and after the workshop. Attendees will be introduced to several technologies during the workshop, including Apache, MySQL, Perl, Git (Version Control System), Zebra, IRC, and more.