Date Description Tags
1999 HLT have a proprietary library system, with a y2k bug
1999 HLT send out RFP, no responses that would actually work over dialup links
1999 HLT and Katipo look for Opensource ILS, can't find one
September 6 1999 Work starts on Koha
September,October,December 1999 Katipo work with HLT to write an ILS.
1999 Olwen Williams does at lot of work on data conversion.
January 3 2000 Koha goes live after many sleepness nights and a few hundred commits
July 2000 Koha written about in Library Life NZ
July 13 2000 First post to the koha mailing list
July 21 2000 Koha 1.00 put up for download release
August 9 2000 Koha 1.01 released release
August 17 2000 First request for internationalisation from Poland translation
Auguest 19 2000 Koha 1.03 released release
October 9 2000 Koha 1.06 released release
October 17 2000 Koha wins 3M Innovation in Libraries award award
October 24 2000 "WebMedia, E-Loan collect awards" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/CC256CED0016AD1ECC2569810006EAE0?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
October 27 2000 Koha wins "The best example of interactive media specifically made for community and not for profit organisations." Interactive NZ Award award
December 16 2000 Glen Stewart sends the first patch for Koha (outside of Katipo)
December 16 2000 Steve Tonnesen begins work on non-acquistions based cataloguing interface
December 21 2000 Chris Cormack returns from annual leave and Koha 1.07 is released award
December 21 2000 Koha is set up on sourceforge.net
January 6 2001 Steve Tonnesen becomes the 5th committer to Koha and the first outside of Katipo, Koha has 874 commits at this point
January 13 2001 Glen Stewart sends patches to fix some bugs with acquisitions
January 19 2001 Steve Tonnesen begins work on web based circulations
February 16 2001 Koha developers mailing list set up
February 27 2001 Koha 1.1.0 released includes Web based circulations release
May 18 2001 Glen Stewart leaves his job and working on Koha, gives us cuecat decoding code as a parting gift.
June 15 2001 Work begins on importing/exporting MARC to/from koha
June 23 2001 Benedykt P. Barszcz working on translations translation, community, poland
June 24 2001 Pawel Skuza working on a script to automate translations translation
June 27 2001 Chris Cormack commits the script to automate translations translation
July 12 2001 Pawel Skuza becomes the 2nd committer outside of Katipo, and 6th overall and commits his translation script.
July 17 2001 Koha 1.1.1 released, including new translation script release
August 15 2001 Steve Tonessen has 5 Schools in BC using Koha
September 5 2001 Pawel Skuza submits new Polish images for use with Koha translation,poland
September 25 2001 Gerrit Niestijl installs Koha using Oracle
September 27 2001 Debian package available for debian deb http://mail.cmsd.bc.ca/debian local main apt-get update apt-get install koha
October 23 2001 Nicolas Rosasco starts work on a FAQ
November 1 2001 Can use Z3950 from Koha now
November 2 2001 Can successfully import MARC records
November 7 2001 Nicholas Rosasco publishes FAQ for Koha
November 8 2001 Steve Tonessen succeeds Chris Cormack as Release manager
January 24 2002 First message to the main koha list from Stephen Hedges at NPL
February 1 2002 First message to the main koha list from Paul Poulain
February 22 2002 Paul Poulain sends an email saying he will work on Koha
March 6 2002 Paul becomes the 7th committer to Koha
March 13 2002 Katipo's new developer Finlay Thompson becomes the 8th committer to Koha
March 14 2002 First email from Joshua Ferraro
March 20 2002 Roger Buck sets up the first Koha wiki
March 30 2002 Nicholas Rosasco begins work on a documentation site
April 2 2002 Pat Eyler introduces himself to the community
April 9 2002 Pat Eyler becomes 8th committer to Koha
April 14 2002 Chris Cormack asks Nicholas Rosasco to help coordinate the developers with him
April 10 2002 Gynn Lomax (of Katipo) becomes 9th committer to Koha
April 20 2002 irc channel #koha set up on irc.katipo.co.nz
April 21 2002 Roger Buck becomes 10th committer to Koha
April 24 2002 Chris Cormack branches cvs to make rel-1-2 branch
April 24 2002 Pat Eyler starts a who's who page on the wiki
May 1 2002 Chris announces 1.2.0-rc1
May 8 2002 Paul Poulain sends his MARC support proposal to the devel list
May 11 2002 Steve Tonnesen outlines a structure for HTML::Template and the Koha templates
May 14 2002 Chris Cormack branches cvs and creates rel-1-4-marc branch for work on MARC
May 15 2002 Steve Tonnesen makes the irc logs publicly available
May 18 2002 Alan Millar becomes 11th committer to Koha
May 27 2002 Mike Mylonas becomes 12th committer to Koha
May 23 2002 Steve Tonnesen makes searchable logs of the irc channel available
May 23 2002 Koha 1.1.2rc1 released
May 28 2002 Rachel Hamilton-Williams puts up Katipo's Koha work on the wiki to avoid duplication of effort
May 30 2002 Meeting to elect Kaitiaki - Pat Eyler elected
June 6 2002 Chris Cormack announces Koha 1.2.0-rc2
June 7 2002 Pat sends his first from the Kaitiaki report
June 9 2002 Rachel Hamilton-Willams of Katipo sends access to the katipo cma to edit the new koha.org site
June 14 2002 First email to the koha-announce list
June 15 2002 First bug lodged in bugs.koha.org at 1.15pm
June 15 2002 First bug in bugzilla fixed at 2pm
June 15 2002 Koha 1.2.0 Released - Contains templates to make translation easier, Chris takes over release maintenance while Paul and Steve begin work for 1.4.0
June 17 2002 Koha mentioned in an article by Ben Ostrowsky about Linux/Open Source
June 18 2002 Pat Eyler starts a kohabiz mailing list
June 20 2002 Koha 1.2.1rc1 put up on developer.koha.org
June 24 2002 Koha 1.2.1rc2 put up on developer.koha.org
June 25 2002 Koha 1.2.1rc3 put on developer.koha.org
June 28 2002 Pay for support page started on koha.org
July 5 2002 Koha 1.2.1 Released
July 10 2002 First email to the koha-translate mailing list
July 12 2002 Nicholas sets up a translation section on the wiki and a mailing list
July 19 2002 Koha mentioned in Linux Weekly News
July 26 2002 Koha 1.2.2 Released
August 2 2002 Koha translations of the README file in Bangla and Hindi received
August 5 2002 Rachel and Rosalie interviewed on National Radio in NZ
August 26 2002 Nelsonville public library announce their intention to migrate to Koha
September 3 2002 Nelsonville RFP's gain traction
September 11 2002 Philanthropy Australia goes live with koha http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/5107.html
September 12 2002 Article about Koha and NPL in computerworld http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/CC256CED0016AD1ECC256C30007B0AB9?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
September 19 2002 Dorian Meid becomes the 13th committer to Koha
September 22 2002 Andrew Arensburger becomes the 14th committer to Koha, with the neat C4::Context
September 22 2002 Koha and NPL written about in Computerworld NZ
September 25 2002 Koha 1.3.0 released - Mulitple MARC flavours supported
September 27 2002 Koha mentioned in Biblio-Tech review
October 14 2000 Koha 1.3.1 released
October 16 2002 David Strainchamps 15th committer to Koha
October 16 2002 Koha 1.3.1 released
October 23-25 2002 NPL (Joshua Ferraro, Stephen Hedges & Owen Leonard) plus Chris Cormack at Ohio Library conference, Columbus
October 30-31 2002 Chris Cormack speaks at Think Linux Toledo, Chris, Joshua Ferraro and Stephen Hedges man a stand
November 14 2002 Henri-Damien Laurent becomes 16th committer to Koha
Novemer 21 2002 Kohausers page is started
November ?? 2002 Chawner, Brenda. 2002. Koha: an open source success story. http://mustafa.emeraldinsight.com/vl=12220074/cl=48/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/technology/nov02.htm
November 30 2002 Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso 17th committer to Koha
December 2 2002 Koha 1.3.2 released ??
Decemeber 6 2002 Koha mentioned in an article about opensource in American Libraries
December 6 2002 First known in