Date Description Tags
-1999 HLT have a proprietary library system, with a y2k bug
-1999 HLT send out RFP, no responses that would actually work over dialup links
-1999 HLT and Katipo look for Opensource ILS, can't find one
-September 6 1999 Work starts on Koha
-September,October,December 1999 Katipo work with HLT to write an ILS.
-1999 Olwen Williams does at lot of work on data conversion.
+1999 HLT have a proprietary library system, with a y2k bug
+1999 HLT send out RFP, no responses that would actually work over dialup links
+1999 HLT and Katipo look for Opensource ILS, can't find one
+September 6 1999 Work starts on Koha
+September, October, December 1999 Katipo work with HLT to write an ILS.
+1999 Olwen Williams does at lot of work on data conversion.
January 3 2000 Koha goes live after many sleepless nights and a few hundred commits
July 2000 Koha written about in Library Life NZ
July 13 2000 First post to the koha mailing list
April 9 2002 Pat Eyler becomes 9th committer to Koha
April 14 2002 Chris Cormack asks Nicholas Rosasco to help coordinate the developers with him
April 10 2002 Gynn Lomax (of Katipo) becomes 10th committer to Koha
-April 20 2002 irc channel #koha set up on irc.katipo.co.nz
+April 20 2002 irc channel #koha set up on irc.katipo.co.nz
April 21 2002 Roger Buck becomes 11th committer to Koha
April 24 2002 Chris Cormack branches cvs to make rel-1-2 branch
April 24 2002 Pat Eyler starts a who's who page on the wiki
May 23 2002 Koha 1.1.2rc1 released
May 28 2002 Rachel Hamilton-Williams puts up Katipo's Koha work on the wiki to avoid duplication of effort
May 30 2002 Meeting to elect Kaitiaki - Pat Eyler elected
-June 6 2002 Chris Cormack announces Koha 1.2.0-rc2
+June 6 2002 Chris Cormack announces Koha 1.2.0-rc2
June 7 2002 Pat sends his first from the Kaitiaki report
June 9 2002 Rachel Hamilton-Willams of Katipo sends access to the katipo cma to edit the new koha.org site
June 14 2002 First email to the koha-announce list
October 16 2002 David Strainchamps becomes 16th committer to Koha
October 16 2002 Koha 1.3.1 released
October 23-25 2002 NPL (Joshua Ferraro, Stephen Hedges & Owen Leonard) plus Chris Cormack at Ohio Library conference, Columbus
-October 30-31 2002 Chris Cormack speaks at Think Linux Toledo, Chris, Joshua Ferraro and Stephen Hedges man a stand
+October 30-31 2002 Chris Cormack speaks at Think Linux Toledo, Chris, Joshua Ferraro and Stephen Hedges man a stand
November 14 2002 Henri-Damien Laurent becomes 17th committer to Koha
Novemer 21 2002 Kohausers page is started
November ?? 2002 Chawner, Brenda. 2002. Koha: an open source success story. http://mustafa.emeraldinsight.com/vl=12220074/cl=48/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/technology/nov02.htm
November 30 2002 Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso becomes 18th committer to Koha
December 2 2002 Koha 1.3.2 released ??
Decemeber 6 2002 Koha mentioned in an article about opensource in American Libraries
-December 6 2002 First known install in france ND-Dombes Abbey
+December 6 2002 First known install in france ND-Dombes Abbey
December ?? 2002 Koha 1.2.3 released
December 13 2002 Rob Weir posts links to his Windows32 packages, begins the lifelong task of preparing windows packages
January 6 2003 Andy?? becomes 19th committer to Koha
April 5 2003 Koha 1.9.1 released
April 11 2003 Rob Weir updates the Koha windows packages, now a few clicks to do an install
April 12 2003 Koha 1.9.2 released
-April 16 2003 Paul Poulain presents on Koha at "Open Source Software in Libraries" at enssib (the French National School for librarians - www.enssib.fr)
+April 16 2003 Paul Poulain presents on Koha at "Open Source Software in Libraries" at enssib (the French National School for librarians - www.enssib.fr)
May 3 2003 Dorian Meid translate the opac into German translation, german
May 9 2003 Ingrid resigns as QA manager
May 6 2003 software.coop (as TTLLP) publicly offer Koha support
November 7 2003 2 articles about Koha on webjunction New Zealand Leads the Way: the Horowhenua Open Source Story and Nelsonville Public Library: Questions and Answers About Open Source
December 4 2003 Koha 2.0.0rc1 released
December 5 2003 Paul Poulain commits a new translation tool
-December 12 2003 Koha has been used as an example in a recent study of Open Source Development commissioned by the World Bank Group
+December 12 2003 Koha has been used as an example in a recent study of Open Source Development commissioned by the World Bank Group
December 16 2003 Chris Cormack branches cvs creates rel_2_0 branch
Jan 6 2004 Joshua Ferraro begins work on installation manual
Jan 10 2004 Joshua Ferraro adds a simple z3950 server
May 25 2004 doXulting becomes the 31st committer to Koha
May 29 2004 Brooke adds the Newbie Guide to the wiki, newbies around the world rejoice
May 31 2004 "When profit's not the only goal" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/04240726AC168409CC25723600334225?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
-June 3 2004 MJ Ray (release maintainer for 2.0.x) starts experimenting with using arch for Koha version control
+June 3 2004 MJ Ray (release maintainer for 2.0.x) starts experimenting with using arch for Koha version control
June 4 2004 Paul commits first cut at online help
June 23 2004 Ecole des Mines de Nantes funds the development of a suggestions module, to work with acquisitions
June 24 2004 "And the winners are ..." http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/6C696179245321F5CC256EBD006E50BC?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
May 20 2005 Russel Garlick updates http://www.koha.org
May 23 2005 Website Design committee mooted
May 23 2005 Koha mentioned in Linux Today http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2005052200426OSDPPB
-May 25 2005 #koha-fr channel started on irc community, french
+May 25 2005 #koha-fr channel started on irc community, french
May 25 2005 Chris Cormack commits some Plucene scripts in cvs Head and Joshua Ferraro does some testing search, fulltext
May 26 2005 Koha webdesign IRC meeting website
May 31 2005 Bugsquashing session
January 10 2007 Italian Translation updated translation, italian
January 10 2007 new chinese, japanese & korean translations translation, chinese, japanese, korean
January 11 2007 Tag cloud and new browsing feature added to Koha
-January 17 2007 contribs.koha.org goes live, Thanks to Pierrick Le Gall for the extensions manager.
+January 17 2007 contribs.koha.org goes live, Thanks to Pierrick Le Gall for the extensions manager.
February 15 2007 Frédéric Demians from Tamil announces plan to offer support services around Koha
March 8 2007 Koha 2.2.8 released
March 10 2007 Ryan Higgins (of Liblime) becomes the 46th committer to Koha developer
April 29 2009 Lenora Oftedahl sets up an SQL library on the koha wiki, users rejoice, and lo a multitude of reports are added
May 1 2009 Colin Campbell becomes the 89th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository developer
May 1 2009 David Birmingham becomes the 90th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository developer
-May 6 2009 IRC meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_6_May_2009
+May 6 2009 IRC meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_6_May_2009
May 7 2009 Maintenance tree created on git.koha-community.org for testing for 3.0.2
May 21 2009 Andrei V. Toutoukine becomes the 91st committer to have a patch accepted in Koha developer
May 22 2009 First feature sponsored by Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) accepted sponsor