General IRC meeting 2016-11-02

Place

The #koha IRC channel (IRC server irc.oftc.net).

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Time

2 November 2016 at 20:00 UTC

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Agenda

Introductions (please use "#info" in front of your introduction to have it show up in the automatic minutes)
Announcements
Update on releases:
- 3.20 (previous previous release)
- 3.22 (previous release)
- 16.05 (current release)
- 16.11 (next release)
Elections: Roles for 17.05
KohaCon
- KohaCon17 - Philippines Proposal has been selected by default under the rules and is open for registration announced on the Koha mailing list.
- KohaCon18 - Does it make sense to open bidding now?
Actions from General IRC meeting 7 September 2016.
- General IRC meeting 5 October 2016 was postponed to this meeting for insufficient attendance.
Discussion on idea about Marketing Group or Committee for spreading word about Koha (website design and content, press releases, whatever else this group can come up with)
- A separate website just for marketing? To highlight features of Koha as well as selected libraries that use Koha, both big and small. Document some of the largest Koha libraries to combat the idea that Koha is just for small libraries. Document the setup in Turkey. Just a thought. --Magnus 01:52, 19 October 2016 (EDT)
  - Don't think a separate website is required. Happy to help (or lead) creating the promotional content required for the Koha Community website, as well as create a template for case studies. -- David Nind
Bugzilla vs Github/Gitlab. Are people happy with bugzilla? Is is up for discussion to consider some alternatives? User:Petter
Could we set up a 'Support provider registration' email list?

Apologies

Mirko: I'm ill and might go to bed early. +1 for the release team as of 2. Nov 2016 10:30 UTC

David Nind

Next meeting

General IRC meeting 7 December 2016, 14 UTC

Minutes