Koha Community Project Day 26 July 2019
Welcome to the first Koha Community Project Day!
Do you have a Koha clean-up / dev / fun project in mind, that you never find time to work on? Koha Community Project Day is your chance to finally get around to it!
You can also work on anything community-related if you don't have a specific project in mind, including testing/sign-offs, patch submitting and documentation.
When: Friday, 26 July 2019, whatever timezone you are in
- Starting time in Kiritimati, Christmas Island, Kiribati
- Ending time in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Project ideas and volunteers
In the table below you can list and describe any projects you want to suggest for the Project Day. If you intend to work on one, please add your name in the volunteers column.
| Project title | Description | Progess summary | Volunteers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Example Project | Example Description | Progress... | Everyone |
| Plugin catalogue | Using Koha to inventory all the Koha plugins available | Nothing so far...
To be done :
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Caroline for initial Koha configuration and cataloguing. Anyone interested afterwards. Send me an email (caroline.cyr-la-rose@inlibro.com) or a @later on irc (caroline_catlady) if you have plugins you would like to have added to the catalogue, or if you would like to help maintaining the catalogue. Sher Afzal Khan for Koha Installation, configurations, OPAC designing, HTML, Koha Administrating, IPs seating, cataloging methods, for quarries and help please contact kohapaksitan@gmail.com. |
| AuthorityBox | Add an accordion to record detail to show detailed info of each author, from the authority records or external sources like Wiki/pedia/data, WorldCat... An example: http://catalogo.pusc.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=184247 |
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| Recommendations in Mana | rebase / explore https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18618 | ||
| Documentation | Write sections for the manual | This is always in progress.
If you would like to help, check the Manual Taiga for a list of tasks to do. Also, check the wiki page Editing_the_Koha_Manual for detailed how-to's on how to contribute to the manual. |
Everyone!
If you need help, ask these people on IRC :
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| Testing and signoffs | Test patches, sign them off if they work | This is always in progress.
Check the dashboard for bugs to sign off. Check the Sign_off_on_patches wiki page for a detailed how-to. |
Everyone is welcome!
If you need help, ask anyone on IRC. |
| Images/templates for Koha social media | If you've got any graphic design skills I'd appreciate some help on creating some images for Twitter and YouTube |
Not started. I like what Mahara does for Newsletter and meetings https://twitter.com/maharaproject | Contact: davidnind |
| The accounts tree | The continued effort to clean up and enhance the koha accounting system Bug 14825 and Bug 13985 | In progress, always looking for volunteers | Everyone is welcome, but Martin, Tomas and Kyle have been taking it in turns to lead the charge here. |
Volunteers
Planning to participate:
- Katrin Fischer
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
- Catalyst Koha team: Aleisha Amohia, Alex Buckley, Bonnie Crawford, Chris Cormack, Hayley Mapley, Kathryn Tyree
- David Nind
- Martin Renvoize ("The RM", PTFS-Europe)
- Kelly McElligott (ByWater Solutions)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (ByWater Solutions)
- Donna Bachowski (ByWater Solutions)
- Jessica Zairo (ByWater Solutions)
- Kyle Hall (ByWater Solutions)
- Lucas Gass (ByWater Solutions)
- Lisette Scheer (Latah County Library District)
Need help?
Reach out to other community members through IRC. Feel free to ask any questions or ask for help on the channel.
Links
- Manual Taiga (you may need an account to access this page)
- Dashboard
- Website