(Via The National Library of Finland - https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en)
PerlKohaCon 2023 was held in Helsinki in August. A big thank you for all the participants! ✨
👉 All streamed presentations are now available on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/nyja6bcd
👉 The presentation slides are available in Doria: https://doria.fi/handle/10024/187615
The latest Koha Community Newsletter is out!
Read it at https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-august-2023/
Highlights from this edition:
- Current Koha versions
- New Koha libraries
- Koha tips and tricks
- Upcoming events
- KohaCon 2023 roundups
The Catalyst Koha team's wrap up of #KohaCon23
https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/wrapping-up-kohacon-2023
Interested in helping improve Koha's accessibility?
At #KohaCon23, Martin Renvoize and Matt Blenkinsop (Accessibility Advocate for the Koha 23.11 Release Team) from PTFS Europe led an Accessibility Workshop.
Workshop summary: https://ptfs-europe.com/our-contributions-to-the-perl-and-koha-conference-2023/
The slides: https://ptfs-europe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Koha-Accessibility-Hackathon.pdf (PDF 322 KB)
Bugs you could help with: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23003
The accessibility statement proposal: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Accessibility_Statement
The PTFS Europe (https://ptfs-europe.com/) team members share their experiences and what they learned from attending KohaCon23:
- The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piZxTIZ-u-o
- The blog post: https://ptfs-europe.com/our-contributions-to-the-perl-and-koha-conference-2023/
The fabulous Kelly and Jessie from ByWater Solutions chat about KohaCon23, and share some of the photos from their adventures in Finland!
Watch the video: https://buff.ly/3qDFzzd
Time stamps for each talk have been added to the #PerlKohaCon / #KohaCon23 live streams (in the comments):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa9kvrI3VLf7ZvLvJk9EtlnF2OVETvddm
Hopefully this is useful until individual videos are available.
Also available, a spreadsheet listing all the talks with links to the videos https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DIKfxV7_zVgVmw20QBuCf7wxWAtX-wPTksYnwbi8CMc/edit?usp=sharing
Highlights from the KohaCon 2023 / Perl Koha Conference by Alex Buckley from Catalyst (https://www.catalyst.net.nz/koha-library-management):
- Day 1: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/kohacon-2023-day-one-highlights
- Day 2: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/kohacon-2023-day-two-highlights
- Day 3: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/kohacon-2023-day-three-highlights
Some great lightning talks at #KohaCon23 / #PerlKohaCon on day 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuYQOdnykc&t=27580s (timestamps in the comments)
- More language options to Koha? Inkeri Hakulinen, National Library of Finland
- Solution for event management in Koha (Paul Derscheid, LMSCloud - LMSEventManagement plugin available at https://github.com/LMSCloud/LMSEventManagement)
- Perl Mongers (https://ww.pm.org)
- Randomly exploring museums with a bot (Robin Sheat, follow Exhibit Explorer on Mastodon @ExhibitExplorer)
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