Koha Tutorials
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The idea of online tutorials for newbie contributors to Koha was brought up at the General IRC Meeting, 5 August 2009. This page will serve as an outline of what is needed and in the future will house links to tutorials.
Possible Topics
- Git & Koha Git usage seems to be it
- A summary of our coding guidelines
- How to navigate Koha's codebase including file locations
- Coding database updates
Possible Instructors/Facilitators
- Galen Charlton
- D Ruth Bavousett
Possible Software Options
- Lernid - uses IRC so might be OK anyway, but can run from Live CD and is Pygtk so might be fairly easy to port to Windows if anyone really wants to?
- Muji - under development.
- DimDim - requires Flash plugin and doesn't seem to work with Gnash
- WebHuddle
- Open Source Screencasting
- FOSS Screencast Tools? - http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ was the popular suggestion by readers of Software Cooperative News.
Ideas for Sharing
- Use YouTube and/or blip.tv to reach a wider audience
- Set up a WordPress blog at learn.koha-community.org to allow posting of tutorials
- Set up a Planet that pulls in feeds of tutorials
- Announce on code4lib email list
Ad-hoc Git Tutorials
- Koha Git mini-tutorial: pulling from remote repositories
- Tutorial for Updating Database Files
- Resolve Merge Issues
- How to install missing Perl modules on Debian
- Set an email alias for Koha patches
- Sign off on patches
Other Tutorials
- Koha as a CMS
- Search Koha with a Google Android phone
- Qmail Installation on Debian Lenny
- Generating Public SSH Keys
- Koha as Firefox Search Engine
- Installing Multiple Instances of Koha
Usage Tutorials
These tutorials talk about using Koha - not coding for Koha, but at still very useful.