Paul Poulain has been invited to the PTFS Europe Customer Days to showcase the worldwide Koha community and the Koha positioning in France.

1. PTFS customer days
Koha : a worldwide community
Koha : highlight on the French
market

2. PTFS customer days
Paul Poulain
➔French
➔Involved in Koha since early 2002 (6th
contributor)
➔Retired Release Manager [versions 2.0, 2.2,
3.8, 3.10]
➔Founder of BibLibre, leader of Open Source for
libraries.

3. A worldwide community
Reminder :
➔Koha was born in New Zealand,
in 2000
➔What does “Koha” mean ?
➔International expansion since
version 2.0
➔Koha 3.22 share almost nothing
with Koha 1.0

4. A worldwide community
Who is owning Koha ?
➔No­one, it’s Open Source
➔What about the trademark & the website DNS
➔In the hand of HLT for NZ and Europe
➔In the hand of another company in US, never
enforced it

5. A worldwide community
Typology of Koha libraries
➔We don’t know, it’s Open Source
➔3 sources of (incomplete) information:
➔http://wiki.koha­community.org/
➔http://hea.koha­community.org
➔http://libtechguide
➔The salesman will say “more than 10 000
libraries are running Koha”. He will probably
not be wrong

6. A worldwide community
Who is using Koha ?
➔Libraries of any type
➔Public
➔Academic
➔Specialised
➔Libraries of any size
➔Very small (hundreds)
➔Very large (millions of books)
➔Libraries anywhere
➔All continents (including Antartica)

7. A worldwide community
Who is using Koha ?
➔« All » public libraries in Turkey
➔« All » public libraries in Argentina
➔Some National Libraries (Philipines, Malawi,
Venezuela, Colombia, Armenia)
➔Large consortiums (50+ libraries)

8. A worldwide community
Who is developing Koha ?
➔More than 270 different contributors
➔Biggest contributions come from a few
companies :
➔Catalyst in NZ
➔BibLibre in France
➔PTFS Europe in UK
➔ByWaterSolutions in USA
➔Theke in Argentine
➔BibLibre, ByWater and PTFS­Europe fund a
full­time developer (Jonathan, hello)

9. A worldwide community
Who is developing Koha ?
➔Anyone who want
➔An elected team
➔Release Manager: Brendan (USA)
➔Release Maintainer:
➔Julian (France) for 3.22, Frederic (France) for 3.20, Liz
(NZ) for 3.18
➔QA manager : Katrin (Germany)
➔QA team: Marcel (NL), Jesse (USA), Paul (F), Kyle
(USA), Tomas (AR), Jonathan (UK or B)

10. A worldwide community
Who is developing Koha ?
➔An elected team
➔Continuous integration manager: Tomas (Argentina)
➔Translation manager: Bernardo (Argentina)
➔Documentation manager: Nicole (USA)
➔Packaging manager: Galen (USA)

11. The “KohaCon”
Yearly conference
➔2006 Paris, F,
➔2009 Plano, USA,
➔2010 Wellington NZ,
➔2011 Mumbaï, India,
➔2012 Edinburgh, UK,
➔2013 Reno, USA,
➔2014 Cordoba, Argentina,
➔2015 Ibadan, Nigéria,
➔2016 Thessaloniki, Greece

12. French market
A successful story:
➔1st
library in 2003 !
➔3 companies supporting Koha
➔BibLibre,
➔Tamil,
➔Progilone (not contributing at all to Koha eco­
system)

13. French market
A successful story:
➔11 universities using Koha (3rd
software used
by universities).
➔Many engineer schools (Mines Paristech,
Supelec, “all” Architecture,...)
➔Many public libraries (Nîmes , Limoges ,
Montauban, Valence, Roubaix)

14. French market
Libraries not using Koha
➔Specialised private libraries (lawyers,…)
➔School libraries (primary,…)
➔Small (& isolated) public libraries

15. French market
A NPO, kohala
➔150 members
➔2 meetings every year:
➔January= 1 day, in Paris. “new version features”
➔May/June= 2 days, various location, the
“symposium”
➔Discovering Koha
➔Going deeper (for people using Koha)
➔Worldwide news (community, outside,...)

16. French market
BibLibre positioning
➔The 1st
company in France for Open Source and
libraries
➔Choosing (Open Source) software for libraries
and supporting it, get involved in it
➔Koha (of course)
➔Coral (ERM)
➔Bokeh (portal)
➔Omeka (digital collections
➔Piwik (web statistics)

17. Future of Koha
➔Integrate Electronic Resource Management and
ILS (Koha and Coral)
➔Work on performance & maintainability
improvement
➔Work on search engine change (Zebra > Elastic
Search)