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#koha: General IRC meeting 8 January 2020
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Meeting started by ashimema[m] at 20:03:51 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://meetings.koha-community.org/2020/general_irc_meeting_8_january_2020.2020-01-08-20.03.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Katrin Fischer, BSZ, Germany  (cait, 20:04:08)
* Owen Leonard, Athens County Public Libraries, Ohio, USA  (oleonard,
  20:04:15)
* Introductions  (ashimema[m], 20:04:18)
  * Caroline Cyr La Rose, inLibro  (caroline_catlady, 20:04:20)
  * Cori Lynn Arnold, DGI, Connecticut  (corilynn, 20:04:24)
  * Martin Renvoize, PTFS Europe, UK  (ashimema[m], 20:04:30)
  * David Nind, Wellington, New Zealand  (davidnind, 20:04:44)
  * Hayley Mapley, Catalyst IT New Zealand  (hayley, 20:05:03)
  * Lisette Scheer, Latah County Library District/Koha-US, Idaho, US
    (lisettelatah, 20:05:07)
  * George Williams, Northeast Kansas Library System  (georgew,
    20:05:38)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_8_January_2020
    Agenda  (ashimema[m], 20:05:42)
  * Chris Cormack, Catalyst  (rangi, 20:06:21)

* Announcements  (ashimema[m], 20:07:07)
  * Been wading through old open bugs until up to 2015 - marked some
    Academy for those who want to have a go :)  (cait, 20:08:26)
  * Koha-US koha-a-thon is looking for presentation proposals for our
    online conference this spring. The conference is free and anyone is
    welcome to attend.  (lisettelatah, 20:08:50)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJtMl835FOT9aWYTT-JDjWsSl0GoLtmFu5aEuQbE0rsrOz1w/viewform?usp=sf_link
    (lisettelatah, 20:09:05)
  * some bad news is there is no catalyst academy this year (we have no
    space in teh building and it got left a bit late to sort it out)
    (rangi, 20:09:10)
  * LINK: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/open-source-academy  (rangi,
    20:11:12)
  * Next global bug squashing day  is 17 January (from last month's
    general IRC meeting)  (davidnind, 20:11:53)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Catalyst_Academy_2019#Day_1
    <-- they got tons done last year!  (rangi, 20:13:19)
  * Aleisha Amohia, Catalyst IT New Zealand  (aleisha, 20:13:29)
  * We are now entering an 'experimental pushing' period of the relase
    cycle.. this means master will be a tad less stable as I encourage
    the QA team to work through challenging and scary enhancements and
    new features.  (ashimema[m], 20:14:30)
  * Marshal Breeding's 2019 International Library Automation Perceptions
    Survey closes soon, provides useful info on Koha
    https://librarytechnology.org/web/breeding/AutomationSurvey/
    (davidnind, 20:15:30)
  * Hackfest in Marseille hosted by BibLibre 23rd - 27th March
    (ashimema[m], 20:17:23)

* Kohacon20  (ashimema[m], 20:18:55)
  * Registrations for KohaCon are open!  (cait, 20:18:58)
  * LINK: https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/registration/  (rangi,
    20:19:01)
  * LINK: https://2020.kohacon.org/posts/location/  details here
    (rangi, 20:19:32)

* Update on releases  (ashimema[m], 20:21:08)
  * First releases of the cycle have taken place  (ashimema[m],
    20:21:52)
  * 18.11: In the process of working through the relevant patches for
    18.11.13. If anyone has anything to flag for the 18.11.13 please let
    me know and I will take a look!  (hayley, 20:22:09)
  * Packaging was a little slow, xmas break combined with challenges
    getting hold of the packaging manager.  (ashimema[m], 20:23:12)
  * Lots of bugfixes have gone in during this first month of bugfixes
    only  (ashimema[m], 20:23:36)
  * Now moving into a short period of more experimenal pushing...
    (ashimema[m], 20:24:14)

* Any Other Business  (ashimema[m], 20:25:45)
  * Koha Release Team is looking for packaging volunteers to spread the
    load  (cait, 20:33:22)

* Next meeting  (ashimema[m], 20:35:08)
  * 12 Feb 2020, 20 UTC  (ashimema[m], 20:39:36)



Meeting ended at 20:39:52 UTC.



People present (lines said)
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* ashimema[m] (55)
* rangi (21)
* cait (20)
* davidnind (6)
* corilynn (5)
* hayley (5)
* lisettelatah (4)
* huginn` (4)
* georgew (3)
* caroline_catlady (3)
* oleonard (3)
* aleisha (2)
* wahanui (1)
* Marie-Luce (1)



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