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#koha: General IRC meeting 6 April 2016
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Meeting started by cait at 10:02:49 UTC.  The full logs are available at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2016/general_irc_meeting_6_april_2016.2016-04-06-10.02.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introductions  (cait, 10:02:53)
  * wahanui, a bot that has become sentient  (wahanui, 10:02:53)
  * Mirko Tietgen, Berlin, Germany  (drojf, 10:03:07)
  * Marc Véron, marc veron ag, Allschwil, Switzerland  (mveron,
    10:03:20)
  * Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany  (cait, 10:03:26)
  * Claire Gravely, UAL, UK  (LibraryClaire, 10:03:36)
  * Arslan Farooq, Islamabad, Pakistan  (Oak, 10:03:45)
  * David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand  (davidnind, 10:03:53)
  * Thomas Dukleth, Agogme, New York City  (thd, 10:04:00)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_6_April_2016
    (cait, 10:04:15)
  * Giannis Kourmoulis, AUTh, Greece  (ikourmou, 10:04:31)
  * Nick Clemens, ByWater Solutions  (kidclamp, 10:07:11)

* Announcements  (cait, 10:07:26)

* Update on releases  (cait, 10:11:24)
  * Freeze dates for 16.05 have been set: Feature freeze - April 28th
    and Release on May 26  (cait, 10:13:04)
  * LINK:
    http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2016-March/042559.html
    (cait, 10:13:07)

* Hackfest in Berlin  (cait, 10:16:29)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackfest_2016
    (cait, 10:17:10)
  * 10 registrations so far  (cait, 10:17:19)
  * catmandu workshop will happen, other workshops pending  (cait,
    10:17:41)

* Rules for announcements to the main mailinglist  (cait, 10:30:23)
  * wait and see if there are more repeated announcements, leaving it
    for now  (cait, 10:41:01)

* KohaCon16  (cait, 10:41:11)
  * LINK: http://kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr/?page_id=2417  (ikourmou,
    10:42:08)
  * LINK: http://kohacon2016.lib.auth.gr/?page_id=2417  (cait, 10:42:52)
  * deadline for registrations i April 22nd  (cait, 10:44:32)
  * program to be updated with abstracts and bios soon  (cait, 10:48:26)
  * an info email about the schedule will be send to people registered,
    also asking to let the organizers know if attending is not possible
    (cait, 10:56:12)

* KohaCon17  (cait, 10:58:15)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon17_Proposals
    (cait, 10:58:34)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Conference_Bidding
    (cait, 11:03:03)
  * ACTION: thd to add a coherent statement for the next agenda with the
    option to have the vote then on 'content rotation'  (cait, 11:10:40)
  * ACTION: everyone: homework: read the four options for counting
    kohacon votes at
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Processes_for_KohaCons#Counting_votes
    (drojf, 11:14:08)
  * ACTION: everyone: make up your mind if you want to have the option
    to choose between "maybe" and "no" (options 2 and 4). discuss on the
    mailinglist before if you like  (drojf, 11:14:16)
  * we will write a test about that next time  (drojf, 11:14:22)

* International Koha Fund - Draft Rules for THT Grants Committee  (cait,
  11:15:10)
  * scheduled to be discussed today and voted on next meeting  (cait,
    11:15:29)
  * LINK: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Fundraising  (cait,
    11:15:38)
  * ACTION: Koha Fund Fundraising Committee members - review full logs
    for discussion of the proposed document  (cait, 11:30:02)
  * ACTION: cait to send a link to the fundraising discussion to the
    list  (cait, 11:31:34)

* Brainstorming about sign-offs  (cait, 11:33:18)
  * drojf to send an email to the mailing lists to move discussion there
    (cait, 11:33:43)
  * will be removed from next meeting's agenda, until someone wants to
    add it back for discussing some concrete ideas  (cait, 11:34:08)

* Next meeting  (cait, 11:34:21)
  * AGREED: Next meeting will be 4 May 2016, 20 UTC  (cait, 11:35:38)



Meeting ended at 11:35:53 UTC.



Action items, by person
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* cait
  * cait to send a link to the fundraising discussion to the list
* thd
  * thd to add a coherent statement for the next agenda with the option
    to have the vote then on 'content rotation'
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * everyone: homework: read the four options for counting kohacon votes
    at
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Processes_for_KohaCons#Counting_votes
  * everyone: make up your mind if you want to have the option to choose
    between "maybe" and "no" (options 2 and 4). discuss on the
    mailinglist before if you like
  * Koha Fund Fundraising Committee members - review full logs for
    discussion of the proposed document



People present (lines said)
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* cait (175)
* drojf (105)
* ikourmou (34)
* thd (32)
* davidnind (7)
* wahanui (6)
* kidclamp (6)
* farooq (6)
* huginn (5)
* Oak (4)
* LibraryClaire (3)
* mveron (3)



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