Koha Tutorials

The idea of online tutorials for newbie contributors to Koha was brought up at the General Meeting 5 August 2009. This page will serve as an outline of what is needed and in the future will house links to tutorials.

• Git & Koha Git usage seems to be it
• A summary of our coding guidelines
• How to navigate Koha's codebase including file locations
• Coding database updates

• Galen Charlton
• J. David Bavousett

• Lernid - uses IRC so might be OK anyway, but can run from Live CD and is Pygtk so might be fairly easy to port to Windows if anyone really wants to?
• Muji - under development.
• DimDim - requires Flash plugin and doesn't seem to work with Gnash
• WebHuddle
• Open Source Screencasting
• FOSS Screencast Tools? - http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ was the popular suggestion by readers of Software Cooperative News.

• Use YouTube and/or blip.tv to reach a wider audience
• Set up a WordPress blog at learn.koha.org to allow posting of tutorials
• Set up a Planet that pulls in feeds of tutorials
• Announce on code4lib email list

• Koha Git mini-tutorial: pulling from remote repositories
• Tutorial for Updating Database Files
• Resolve Merge Issues
• How to install missing Perl modules on Debian

• Koha as a CMS
  • Creating Koha CMS Pages
• Search Koha with a Google Android phone
• Qmail Installation on Debian Lenny

These tutorials talk about using Koha - not coding for Koha, but at still very useful.

• From Koha.org
• From NEKLS
• Design tutorials from Owen
• presented by Nicole Engard, Submitted by Lori Bowen Ayre
• Using the Patron Card Creator