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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 install in france ND-Dombes Abbey 
December ?? 2002         Koha 1.2.3 released
December 13 2002         Rob Weir posts links to his Windows32 packages, begins the lifelong task of preparing windows packages
January 6 2003   Andy?? becomes 18th committer to Koha
January 8 2003   Koha 1.3.3 released
January 12 2003 Benedict finishes the translation of the templates into polish  translation, polish
January 19 2003  Ambrose Li becomes the 19th committer to Koha
February 1 2003  Article from Pat Eyler about Koha in linux Journal
February 4 2003  Koha Cafepress shop opens.
February 5 2003  Koha 1.9.0 is released, 2.0.0 becomes much closer
February 13 2003         "Open source library system a welcome gift" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/CC256CED0016AD1ECC256CCB000D1EA7?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
February 17 2003         Mike Hansen becomes the 20th committer to Koha
February ?? 2003         Nicolas Morin tells us that Koha was mentioned in the French monthly periodical ARCHIMAG
February 26 2003        Helena Gironès begins work on a Catalan translation     translation, catalan
March 11 2003    Ingrid Lacis appointed QA Manager
March 11 2003    Steve Tonnesen appointed Release Manager for 2.1/2.2, Paul Poulain later takes over this role
March 28 2003    Koha-testing mailing list set up
April 5 2003     Al Banks becomes the 21st committer to Koha
April 5 2003     Koha 1.9.1 released
April 11 2003    Rob Weir updates the Koha windows packages, now a few clicks to do an install
April 12 2003    Koha 1.9.2 released
April 16 2003    Paul Poulain presents on Koha at "Open Source Software in Libraries" at enssib (the French National School for librarians - www.enssib.fr) 
May 3 2003      Dorian Meid translate the opac into German      translation, german
May 9 2003       Ingrid resigns as QA manager
May 6 2003      software.coop (as TTLLP) publicly offer Koha support
May 15 2003      Pat Eyler, Steve Tonnesen and Chris Cormack add RSS support to Koha
May 21 2003      M J Ray becomes the 22nd committer to Koha
May 22 2003      Paul Poulain commits new bulkmarcimport tool to Koha
May 22 2003      Koha 1.9.3 released
May 26 2003      Koha wins Trophee Du Libre Award
June 8-23        Rachel and Chris from Katipo go to Vienna to do Koha training for UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation)
June 17 2003     Serge Renaux becomes the 23rd committer to Koha
June 20 2003     Jerome Vizcaino becomes the 24th committer to Koha
June 21 2003     Paul Gear makes available rpm's of all of Koha's dependencies
June 23 2003     Michel Lerenard becomes the 25th committer to Koha
June 24 2003     Koha 2.0.0pre1 released
June 24 2003     Joshua Ferraro becomes the 26th committer to Koha
July 9 2003      Pierre Cauchois becomes the 27th committer to Koha
July 11 2003     Koha 2.0.0pre2 released
July 17 2003     Students at ESIEE develop a feature to allow Koha to use LDAP to authenticate
July 17 2003     Ecole des mines de Paris commit to using Koha
July 17 2003     The University of Buffalo decide to use Koha as a teaching tool for Library and Information Studies Students
August 1 2003   Calyx begin their first Koha installation
August 19 2003   NPL announces they are live with Koha
August 26 2003   Richard Anderson (at Katipo) becomes the 28th committer to Koha
September 9 2003         Koha 2.0.0pre3 released
September 23 2003        Koha 2.0.0pre4 released
October 1 2003   Koha mentioned by Prime Minister of NZ when she was talking to the Chamber of Commerce
October 3-5 2003         Open communication for open source software develoment: the Koha experience. Paper read at LITA National Forum, at Norfolk, VA. http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaevents/litanatlforum/forumprograms/cs1-6chawner.ppt
October 25 2003  Koha 2.0.0pre5 released
November 1 2003  Owen Leonard becomes the 29th committer to Koha
November 7 2003  2 articles about Koha on webjunction New Zealand Leads the Way: the Horowhenua Open Source Story and Nelsonville Public Library: Questions and Answers About Open Source
December 4 2003  Koha 2.0.0rc1 released
December 5 2003  Paul Poulain commits a new translation tool
December 12 2003         Koha has been used as an example in a recent study of Open Source Development commissioned by the World Bank Group 
December 16 2003         Chris Cormack branches cvs creates rel_2_0 branch
Jan 6 2004       Joshua Ferraro begins work on installation manual
Jan 10 2004      Joshua Ferraro adds a simple z3950 server
Jan 21 2004      Koha 2.0.0rc2 released
Jan 29 2004      Paul Poulain announces release of 2.0.0rc3
Feb 11 2004      Paul Poulain announces release of 2.0.0rc4
Feb 19 2004      Stephen Hedges provides his migrating to Koha documentation to the community
Mar 7 2004       Installation guide improved and released in pdf format
Mar 30 2004      Baiju M provides a neat migrating from CDS/ISIS to Koha document
April 1 20004    Koha 2.0.0 released
April 17 2004    Nicholas S. Rosasco resurrects and updates the FAQ
April 17 2004    Seminar on Koha at Cairo University, Egypt
May 13-16 2004   Zeki Celikbas presents Koha at a linux festival in Ankara, Turkey
May 25 2004      doXulting becomes the 30th committer to Koha
May 29 2004      Brooke adds the Newbie Guide to the wiki, newbies around the world rejoice
May 31 2004      "When profit's not the only goal" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/04240726AC168409CC25723600334225?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
June 3 2004      MJ Ray (release maintainer for 2.0.x) starts experimenting with using arch for Koha version control 
June 4 2004      Paul commits first cut at online help
June 23 2004     Ecole des Mines de Nantes funds the development of a suggestions module, to work with acquisitions
June 24 2004     "And the winners are ..." http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/6C696179245321F5CC256EBD006E50BC?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
June 25 2004     Koha wins Computerworld excellence in IT for nonprofit Award
June 30 2004     Koha 2.1.0 released
June 30 2004     MJ Ray announces Koha 2.0.1beta2 released
June 30 2004     Christopher Brown-Syed emails to tell us Koha and University of Buffalo are continuin their relationship
July 7 2004      Paul Poulain uses some of the suggestions from University of Buffalo to improve MARC support in Koha
August 18 2004   Stephen Hedges becomes the 31st committer to Koha
August 19 2004   Koha 2.1.1 released
August 26 2004   Katipo installing Koha at Lianza conference (as well as presenting) http://www.katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1092719045.shtml
September 1 2004        Martín Longo starts work on translating Koha to spanish translation, spanish
September 24 2004        Rachel Hamilton-Williams elected Kaitiaki
September 29 2004        Koha 2.1.2 released
September 29 2004        Joshua Ferraro presents at OLC
October 2 2004   Paul Poulain announces the birth of his 3rd son :)
October 20 2004  Koha 2.1.3 released
October 29 2004  Koha 2.0.2beta released
October 29 2004 Gerry Arthus starts work on a Turkish translation       translation, turkish
November 17 2004         Koha 2.2.0rc1 released
November 17 2004         M J Ray releases Koha 2.0.2
November 20 2004         Koha 2.2.0rc2 released
November 23 2004         Koha 2.2.0rc3 released
December 9 2004  Koha 2.2.0rc4 released
December 21 2004         Koha 2.2.0rc5 released
January 2 2005   New document on kohadocs.org "Installing Koha on Fedora" by Joshua Ferraro
January 6 2005   Koha 2.2.0 released
January 18 2005  Rachel Hamilton-Williams designs a new Koha logo http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/album103
February 1-3 2005        Chris Cormack, Rachel Hamilton-Williams and Russel Garlick demonstrate Koha and man a stand at Alia Online, in Australia. Irma Birchall helps out also.
February 6 2005  Koha 2.2, Software Overview and Description of Features -- is now available on http://www.kohadocs.org
February 7 2005  Paul Poulain announces he has hired Henri Damien Laurent to work with him on Koha
February 10 2005          "Koha Architectural Study" by Nicholas Rosasco and Erik Bakke. New doc on kohadocs.org
February 22 2005         Koha 2.2.1 released
March 10 2005   Matti Lassila writes to say work is continuing on a Finnish translation translation, finnish
April 7 2005    Lars ?? translates the MARC21 labels to swedish translation, swedish
April 8 2005     Koha 2.2.2 released
April 13 2005    Liblime announce they are providing Koha support
April 19 2005    Shaun Evans becomes the 32nd committer to Koha
April 24 2005    Set Parameters and Migrate Your Data to Koha 2.2, English translation of Paul Poulain's Paramétrer et migrer, by Regula Sebastiao. On kohadocs.org
April 26 2005    Koha 2.2.2b released
May 2 2005       Koha translated to Swedish     translation,sweden
May 6 2005       Argentinian start work on customising Koha for use in Argentinian Universities Argentina
May 8 2005       Stephen Hedges starts work on 2.2 Users guide
May 15 2005      New document on http://www.kohadocs.org "Command-line scripts," Jared Jennings' translation of Paul Poulain's original French document.  Look for it in section 2.3 "Maintenance and Troubleshooting."
May 20 2005      Stephen Hedges publishes his Koha Diary on www.kohadocs.org
May 20 2005      Joshua Ferraro appointed Release Manager for 2.4
May 20 2005      Russel Garlick updates http://www.koha.org
May 23 2005      Website Design committee mooted
May 23 2005      Koha mentioned in Linux Today http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2005052200426OSDPPB
May 25 2005      #koha-fr channel started on irc                                                       community, french
May 25 2005      Chris Cormack commits some Plucene scripts in cvs Head and Joshua Ferraro does some testing      search, fulltext
May 26 2005      Koha webdesign IRC meeting website
May 31 2005      Bugsquashing session
June 2 2005      Waylon Robertson becomes the 33rd committer to Koha
June 3 2005      Gavin ?? becomes the 34th committer to Koha
June 3 2005      Joshua Ferraro and Chris Cormack discuss trying out Koha for fulltext search on irc    searching, fulltext
June 3 2005      Friedrich zur Hellen becomes the 35th committer to Koha
June 5 2005      Joshua experiments with Zebra, finds very positive and encouraging results     searching, fulltext
June 11 2005     MJ Ray presents Koha to the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians 36th Annual Study Conference and Exhibition
June 13 2005     Catalogue KOHA : mode d’emploi (in French) by the Bibliothèque de sociologie du CNRS, Paris is published on www.kohadocs.org
June 13 2005     After more discussion on irc, Joshua Ferraro sets up a test site using zebra on liblime servers          search, fulltext, liblime
June 14 2005     Draft coding guidelines published
June 23 2005     Paul releases 2.2.3
June 23 2005     'Traducción de “Templates” de KOHA' by Martin Longo published on kohadocs
June 25-28 2005  Liblime present Koha at ALA
July 4 2005      Paul Poulain proposes we rename Koha 2.4 to be 3.0
July 5 2005      Bug 1000 registered at bugs.koha.org
July 6 2005      koha-zebra mailing list created
July 12 2005     The first chapter of the Koha Users Guide -- "Setting Up Your Koha System" -- is now available in the "General Information" section of http://www.kohadocs.org/
July 12 2005     MJ Ray sets up Planet Koha, gathering all Koha blogs on one page
July 13 2005     hatem ibraheem writes to say that MSA university (Modern Sience and Arts university) http://www.msa.eun.eg/library.htm using Koha      community, library, Egypt
August 13 2005   "Koha Coding Standards and Guidelines for Contributors." on http://www.kohadocs.org  documentation
August 18 2005   An expanded version of the first chapter of the Koha Users Guide is now available at http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide.       documentation
August 19 2005   Mason James (at Katipo) becomes the 36th committer to Koha
August 23 2005   A new document is available on http://www.kohadocs.org -- "MARC Holdings, Koha, and Migration" by Thomas Dukleth.  Look for it in section 2.2, "Migration."    documentation
August 26 2005   A new link to a document has been added to http://www.kohadocs.org -- "Gestion de la bibliothèque du LabSAD avec le logiciel Koha" by Caroline Naget (available in pdf format only).  This document is in the General Information section because it covers several aspects of Koha: installing on Gentoo Linux, setting parameters, and use.
September 8 2005 New website softlaunched
September 12-14 2005     Katipo and Koha at LIANZA conference
September 20 2005       Сергій Дубик starts work on a Ukranian translation      translation, ukranian
October 6 2005   New www.koha.org website
October 10 2005  Koha 2.2.4 Released
October 19 2005  Manuel d’utilisation de Koha by "Boris Gapihan, Christelle Le Borgne, Fabien Malclès, Marie-France Palestro (élèves conservateurs à l'ENSSIB, promotion DCB14)" up on http://www.kohadocs.org
October 29 2005  Horowhenua Library Trust goes live with Koha 2.2.4 (the 2nd upgrade)
October 31 2005  Dr Internet Recommends Koha http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/102405internet.html
November 4 2005  Carol Ku confirms you can search in Chinese in Koha
November 6 2005  The French-language Koha users guide, "Manuel d’utilisation de Koha," is now available in DocBook xml, html, pdf, and OpenDocument formats in the General Information section of http://www.kohadocs.org.
November 8 2005  Koha cvs moved to savannah from sourceforge, mailing lists follow
November 14 2005        Anthony Youngman suggests using git
November 27 2005        A new version of the Koha 2.2 Users Guide is now available on www.kohadocs.org (in the General Information section)
December 13 2005        Thomas Dukleth becomes the 37th committer to Koha
January 10 2006  Koha version 2.2.5 is released
January 13 2006  Henri Damien Laurent announces new French Koha website
January 17 2006  New material has been added to the Koha Users Guide to bring it up to date with version 2.2.5.  There is also new material on acquiring MARC records (Z39.50 and file imports) and templating.  View the Users Guide at http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/
January 21 2006  "Australian open source conference comes to NZ" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/B9C36AF788353434CC2570FB007C0162?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
January 23 2006 "Maddogs and Africans descend on Dunedin" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/4F9349662FA1AAC6CC2570FE006F6371?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
January 25 2006 Chris Cormack is invited speaker at Linux Conf Australia  http://katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1134624385.shtml
January 26 2006 Chris Cormack is interviewed for Otago Daily times, and for the National Television news, talking about Koha http://katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1138664189.shtml
January 26 2006 A new document added to http://www.kohadocs.org -- "Installing Koha on Mac OS X" by Stephen Hedges.
January 27 2006   the first Chinese (Traditional) document on http://www.kohadocs.org : Koha 2.2 簡介 -- a translation of Paul Poulain's Logiciel documentaire by 毛 慶禎 (Anthony Mao)
February 4 2006 Joshua Ferraro commits first cut of Amazon content integration with Koha
February 6 2006 IRC meeting
February 11 2006         Article in computerworld about Koha http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/3F65C01EAB666AC6CC25710F00805997?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
February 23 2006         Robert Lyon (working at Katipo) becomes the 38th committer to Koha
February 24 2006        Tümer Garip writes inventory management tool
February 27 2006         "Fear and loathing: is open source a developer's dream or business nightmare?" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/spec/68C09CE2C8B8A483CC25711F001161D9?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
March 3 2006    Paul Poulain commits the holiday management code written by Tümer Garip
March 6 2006    First email to the devel list from Pierrick Le Gall from INEO
March 6 2006    IRC meeting
March 7 2006    Pierrick Le Gall becomes the 39th committer to Koha
March 13 2006   IRC meeting
March 17 2006   First email from Kyle Hall at ccfls to the Mailing list
March 24 2006   Joshua Ferraro has revised his document about installing Koha on Debian to accommodate Koha version 2.2.6 and Debian sarge (3.1).  Find it on www.kohadocs.org under "System Administration."   documentation
April 3 2006    Developer meeting on IRC
April 11 2006    Tümer Garip becomes the 40th committer to Koha (major influence in the addition of zebra to Koha and other)
April 14 2006   Pierrick Le Gall begins as translation manager
May 2,3 2006     Kohacon in Paris http://www.koha.org/community/conferences/
May 12 2006      Bruno Tuomi (from San Ouest Provence) becomes the 41st committer to Koha
May 12-18 2006   Developers week at Bibliotheque du Centre de Mathematiques et Informatique (CMI) at the Universite de Provence, in Marseille
May 19 2006      Arnaud Laurin (also from SAN-OP) becomes the 42nd committer to Koha
May 31 2006     First email from Mike Hafen to the devel list
June 1 2006     Antoine Farnault hired by Paul Poulain and Henri Damien Laurent to work on Koha
June 5 2006     IRC meeting
July 5 2006     Antoine Farnault becomes the 43rd committer to Koha
July 12 2006    Koha 2.3.0 released     release
July 18 2006    Katipo starts a dedicated Koha team.
July 18 2006    Paolo Pozzan starts translating koha to Italian translation, italian
August 2 2006   Koha 2.2.6rc2 released  release
August 3 2006   Kyle Hall announces he has finished his offline circ addon for firefox
August 8 2006   Pierrick Le Gall resigns as QA manager
August 30 2006  Antoine Farnault branches cvs creates rel_3_0 branch
October 3 2006   Rangitikei Library launches new site, featuring Koha. It's opened by the Minister for Libraries from the NZ Government
October 9-11 2006        Katipo at LIANZA demonstrating Koha, Russel Garlick presents http://katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1159247279.shtml http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/lianza2006
October 17 2006  Koha 2.2.6 released
November 11 2006         Han Yan emails to tell the list that The Afghanistan Union catalog was built on top of Koha with some modifications such as Arabic support and label printing etc.
November 23 2006         Paul Poulain announces Koha 2.2.7 has been released
December 19 2006        chinese(zh_TW) translation of koha      translation, chinese, taiwan
January 10 2007  Italian Translation updated    translation, italian
January 10 2007  new chinese, japanese & korean translations    translation, chinese, japanese, korean
January 11 2007 Tag cloud and new browsing feature added to Koha
January 17 2007  contribs.koha.org goes live, Thanks to Pierrick Le Gall for the extensions manager. 
February 15 2007         Frédéric Demians from Tamil announces plan to offer support services around Koha
March 8 2007     Koha 2.2.8 released
March 10 2007    Ryan Higgins (of Liblime) becomes the 44th committer to Koha
March 12 2007    "Software development benefits from open source" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/2B9B1FE8678CC680CC257299000A233F?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
March 17 2007    Liblime accepted to google summer of code, call out to the mailing list for project ideas
March 28 2007    Passini becomes the 45th committer to Koha
March 31 2007    Katipo sells Koha division to Liblime http://katipo.co.nz/about-us/news/nr1175402768.shtml
April 1 2007     Russel Garlick, Chris Cormack and Mason James start at Liblime
April 10 2007   Agnes Imecs begins work on a Hungarian translation of Koha      translation, hungarian
May 8 2007       Koha 2.2.9 released    release
May 29 2007     Karen Myers begins work on a Tetun translation  translation, tetun
June 5 2007      Rachel Hamilton-Williams explains the logo http://www.koha.org/community/resources/about-the-logo.html
June 13 2007     Koha presented at Fourteenth International Conference “Crimea 2007” http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2007/eng/cd/program.html http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2007/eng/cd/25.pdf
June 18 2007     First Koha day at Liblime http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2007/06/18/koha-project-day/ http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-June/011949.html
June 24 2007     The Crawford County Federated Library System host an Organizational Meeting of a Koha User Group during ALA
June 25 2007     Second Koha day http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2007/06/25/koha-project-day-2/ http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-June/011987.html
June 25 2007    Beda Szukics announces updates to the german translations       translation, german
July 3 2007      Koha day http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-July/012026.html
July 28 2007     Koha day http://blog.bigballofwax.co.nz/2007/07/28/koha-project-day-3/
September 14 2007        Russel Garlick becomes the 46th committer to Koha
September 24 2007        Chris Hammond-Trashor emails to tell the community that Koha has gone live in Samoa. http://www.nelsonlibrary.ws/
October 2 2007   "Pharmac publishes directly with open source" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/25F72F231ABF8F5ACC2573630083A579?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
October 3 2007   Joe Atzberger becomes the 47th committer to Koha
October 3 2007   Chris Catalfo becomes the 48th committer to Koha
October 4 2007   Biblibre formed
October 10 2007  Frederic Demians becomes the 49th committer to Koha
October 12 2007 Axel Bojer working on Norwegian translation     translation, norwegian
October 17 2007  Galen Charlton becomes the 50th committer to Koha
October 18 2007  Chris Cormack wins Open Source contributor of the year at the NZ Open Source awards. Koha was a finalist for project of the year http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-October/012579.html
October 30 2007  "Open source is a viable option, says the SSC" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/30E7D1CD947D73ABCC25737F00834E88?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
November 6 2007 Chris Nighswonger becomes the 51st committer to Koha    developer
December 21 2007         Daniel Banzli becomes the 52nd committer to Koha       developer
January 5 2008   Koha 3.0.0 Alpha is released   release
January 28 2008 Anousak Souphavanh working on a Lao translation of Koha translation, lao
February 23 2008         Jesse Weaver becomes the 53rd committer to Koha        developer
March 3 2008     Russel Garlick, Chris Cormack and Mason James leave Liblime Liblime NZ closed
March 11 2008   Kurt Debrouwer working on a Dutch translation   translation, dutch
March 12 2009   Vladimir Mircevski working on a Serbian translation     translation, serbian
March 19 2008    Andrew Moore becomes the 54th committer to Koha        developer
March 23 2008    Koha 3.0.0 Beta is released
April 2 2008     Darrell Ulm becomes the 55th committer to Koha developer
April 5 2008     Koha 3.0.0 Beta 2 is released
April 7 2008     Bug 2000 registered at bugs.koha.org
April 13 2008    Voting opens for new Koha website theme
April 24 2008    Marc Chantreux becomes the 56th committer to Koha      developer
April 24 2008   Marijana Glavica working on a Croatian translation      translation, croatian
April 25 2008    Frère Sébastien Marie becomes the 57th committer to Koha       developer
April 26 2008    Polytechnic University Koha Installation becomes the 58th committer to Koha    developer
May 6 2008       NCE becomes the 59th committer to Koha developer
May 18 2008      Koha production??? becomes the 60th committer to Koha  developer
May 28 2008      Michael Hafen becomes the 61st committer to Koha       developer
June 17 2008     Daniel Kahn Gillmor becomes the 62nd committer to Koha developer
June 21 2008     Ricardo Dias Marques becomes the 63rd committer to Koha        developer
June 24 2008     String freeze for Koha 3.0.0 announced
June 24 2008     Koha 3.0.0 rc1 released
July 2008       Nicole Engard releases the Koha 3.0.0 manual on Google Sites
July 1 2008      Philippe Jaillon becomes the 64th committer to Koha    developer
July 4 2008      DeAndre Carroll becomes the 65th committer to Koha     developer
July 8 2008      Draft manual for koha 3.0.0 made available
July 11 2008     Nicole Engard becomes the 66th committer to Koha       developer
July 28 2008     "Enterprise doors open for open source" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/spec/446B512F34E476C0CC25749000796965?Opendocument&HighLight=2,koha
August 2 2008    Danny Bouman becomes the 67th committer to Koha        developer
August 8 2008    Southeastern University becomes the 68th committer to Koha     developer
August 11 2008   Koha 3.0.0 released
August 11 2008   Delhi public library announce they are going live with Koha 3.0.0
August 16 2008   Vincent Danjean becomes the 69th committer to Koha     developer
August 31 2008  Kyle hall makes a VMWare image of Koha 3.0.0 available September 13 2008, Community Meeting, new positions elected 3.2 Release Manager - Galen Charlton, LibLime Translation Manager - Chris Cormack, Catalyst Documentation Manager - Nicole Engard, LibLime 3.0 Release Maintainer - Henri-Damien Laurent, BibLibre http://koha.org/cgi-bin/logs.pl?look=plain&startdate=2008091212:00:37&enddate=2008091213:30:01&search=Search
September 19 2008        Clay Fouts becomes the 70th committer to Koha  developer
October 2 2008   Delhi Public Library goes live with koha 3.0.0
October 15 2008  Nahuel Angelinetti becomes the 71st committer to Koha  developer
October 23 2008  Allen Reinmeyer becomes the 72nd committer to Koha     developer
October 23 2008  John Beppu becomes the 73rd committer to Koha  developer
November 3 2008  Rosalie Blake named a LIANZA Fellow http://www.lianza.org.nz/development/awards/professional/2008-recipients.html
November 18 2008         David Schuster moots the idea of a Koha conference in April 2009
December 19 2008         Andy Giesler writes a great guide to installing Koha on Ubuntu http://www.blazingmoon.org/guides/k3-on-u810-1.html
December 24 2008         Stan Brinkerhoff becomes the 74th committer to Koha    developer
January 16 2009  Daniel Sweeney becomes the 75th committer to Koha      developer
January 24 2009  KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers of Open Source) for those using the software, Meeting at ALA
January 24 2009  KOHA Interest Group Meeting at ALA
February 5 2009  Koha 3.0.1 beta released
February 6 2009  J. David Bavousett becomes the 76th committer to Koha  developer
February 10 2009         Andrew Elwell becomes the 77th committer to Koha       developer
February 13 2009         K's Helping Hand launched http://krishnanm.com/khh
February 13-14 2009      Prashant Kulkarni and Krishnan Mani present Koha at Gnunify 09
February 19 2009         Koha 3.0.1 released
March 3 2009     Brian Harrington becomes the 78th committer to Koha    developer
March 3 2009     Bug 3000 registered at bugs.koha.org
March 5 2009     James Winter becomes the 79th committer to Koha        developer
March 5 2009     Stephen Edwards becomes the 80th committer to Koha     developer
March 12 2009    Biblibre start work on a connector for SOPAC (the social opac) and Koha
April 9 2009    Delhi public Library opens its first computerised sub branch at Vinobha Puri http://www.newdelhinews.net/story/487886   India
April 16-17 2009         Kohacon 2009 in Plano, Texas, USA
April 18-20 2009        Developer conference/hackfest Plano, Texas, USA
April 18 2009   Brendan A. Gallagher narrowly beats Jane to become the 81st committer   developer
April 18 2009   Jane Wagner becomes the 82nd committer  developer
April 19 2009   Cory Jaeger becomes the 83rd committer  developer
April 23 2009   Christopher Hyde becomes the 84th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository     developer
April 24 2009   David Goldfein becomes the 85th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository       developer
April 29 2009   Garry Collum becomes the 86th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository developer
April 29 2009   Liz Rea becomes the 87th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository      developer
April 29 2009   Lenora Oftedahl sets up an SQL library on the koha wiki, users rejoice, and lo a multitude of reports are added
May 1 2009      Colin Campbell becomes the 88th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository       developer
May 1 2009      David Birmingham becomes the 89th committer to have a patch pushed into the main repository     developer
May 6 2009      IRC meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=meetingnotes09apr07        
May 7 2009      Maintenance tree created on git.koha.org for testing for 3.0.2
May 21 2009     Andrei V. Toutoukine becomes the 90th committer to have a patch accepted in Koha        developer
May 22 2009     First feature sponsored by Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) accepted     sponsor
May 28 2009     Rick Welykochy becomes the 91st committer to have a patch accepted      developer
May 28 2009     First feature sponsored by Masscat accepted     sponsor
May 28 2009     Zeno Tajoli becomes the 92nd committer to have a patch accepted developer
May 29 2009     Matthias Meusburger becomes the 93rd committer to have patch accepted   developer
May 29 2009     First feature sponsored by Plano Independent School District committed  sponsor
June 3 2009     Savitra Sirohi becomes the 94th committer to have a patch accepted      developer,India
June 3 2009     IRC general Meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09jun3
June 4 2009     Koha 3.0.2 released     releases
June 8 2009     Koha passed 10,000 commits in the master branch (since December 2000)   statistics
June 26 2009    Koha 3.0.3 released     releases
July 1 2009     IRC general Meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09jul01
July 27 2009    Feature sponsored by East Brunswick Public Library, East Brunswick, NJ USA and Middletown Township Public Library, Middletown, NJ USA committed sponsor
July 30 2009    First message to koha-commits mailing list
August 1 2009   Sébastien Hinderer becomes the 95th committer to have a patched accepted        developer,france
August 5 2009   IRC general meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09aug05
August 30 2009  John A. Graziano Memorial Library contributes a icon for Bridge Icon set
September 2 2009        IRC general meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09sep02
September 5 2009        UNIMARC XSLT cleanup and new features Sponsored by BULAC, www.bulac.fr
September 5 2009        Labels rewrite committed, sponsored by Foundations Bible College & Seminary, Dunn, NC USA
September 6 2009  Katrin Fischer becomes the 96th committer to have a patch accepted  developer
September 6 2009  Wolfgang Heymans becomes the 97th committer to have a patch accepted  developer
September 15 2009       Foundation forming meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09sep15
October 7 2009  IRC general meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09oct07
October 22 2009 Koha 3.0.4 released     releases
October 29 2009 Foundation Forming meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09oct29
November 4 2009 General meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09nov04
December 2 2009 KUDOS meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:kudosmeetingnotes09dec02
December 2 2009 General meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09dec02
December 3 2009 Foundation meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes09dec03
December 9 2009 Piotr Wejman becomes the 98th committer to have a patch accepted        developer
December 19 2009        Koha 3.0.5 released     releases
December 20 2009 NYUHSL becomes the 99th committer to have a patch accepted     developer
December 23 2009        Sharon Moreland becomes the 100th committer to have a patch accepted (sent via Liz Rea) developer
December 23 2009        Nicolas Morin becomes the 101st committed to have a patch accepted      developer
January 13 2010 IRC General Meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes10jan13
January 14 2010 Bywater Solutions and Biblibre partner to offer support in the US
January 14 2010 Chris Cormack elected Release Manager for 3.4.0
January 15 2010 PTFS announce intention to buy Liblime
January 26 2010 Biblibre and Libriotech partner to offer support in Norway
February 2 2010 Community Handover meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes10feb02
February 2 2010 koha-community.org website started
February 3 2010 Koha 3.2.0 Alpha released
February 9 2010 General IRC meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes10feb09
February 10 2010        Magnus Enger becomes the 102nd committer to have a patch accepted
February 11 2010        Acquisition of Liblime by PTFS called off
February 11 2010        Equinox begin to offer Koha support
February 15 2010        Will Stokes becomes the 103rd committer to have a patch accepted
February 16 2010        Kohacon10 IRC meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:kohacon2010:meetingminutes16feb
March 2 2010    Community Handover meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes10mar02
March 3 2010    General IRC meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes10mar03
March 15 2010   PTFS acquires LibLime after all
March 16 2010   Lars Wirzenius becomes the 104th committer to have a patch accepted
April 6 2010    Community handover meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes10apr06
April 7 2010    General meeting http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnotes10apr07
April 7 2010    Donovan Jones becomes the 105th committer to have a patch accepted
April 7 2010    Srdjan Jankovic becomes the 106th committer to have a patch accepted
April 7 2010    Cindy Murdock Ames becomes the 107th committer to have a patch accepted
April 7 2010    Alex Arnaud becomes the 108th committer to have a patch accepted
April 16 2010   Amit Gupta becomes the 109th committer to have a patch accepted
April 19 2010   Robin Sheat becomes the 110th committer to have a patch accepted
April 30 2010   Jared CAMINS-ESAKOV becomes the 111th committer to have a patch accepted
May 4 2010      Koustubha Kale becomes the 112th committer to have a patch accepted
May 4 2010      Community Handover meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Community_Handover_IRC_Meeting,_4_May_2010
May 5 2010      General IRC meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_Meeting,_May_5_2010
May 5 2010      Matthew Hunt becomes the 113th committer to have a patch accepted
May 19 2010     Marcel de Rooy becomes the 114th committer to have a patch accepted
July 19 2010    Andrew Chilton becomes the 115th committer to have a patch accepted
June 2 2010     General IRC meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_2_June_2010
July 7 2010     General IRC meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_7_July_2010
June 25 2010    Koha 3.2 Beta released http://koha-community.org/koha-3-2-beta-released/
July 13 2010    License meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/License_Upgrade_Vote_IRC_Meeting,_13_July_2010
August 11 2010  General IRC meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_11_August_2010
September 1 2010        General IRC meeting http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_Meeting,_1_September_2010
September 29 2010       Eric Olsen becomes the 116th committer to have a patch accepted
October 25-31 2010      Kohacon10 in Wellington
October 30 2010 Brian Engard becomes the 117th committer to have a patch accepted
October 30 2010 Daniel Grobani becomes the 118th committer to have a patch accepted
October 31 2010 Nate Curulla becomes the 119th committer to have patch accepted