Jonathan Field talks about the successful year at PTFS Europe

1. Introduction &
review of the year
Jonathan Field
Managing Director, PTFS Europe

2. Introduction
▪ Welcome!
▪ Agenda
▪ Following on from previous feedback…
▪ Whole afternoon of user sessions
▪ Shorter sessions
▪ More news from the wider Koha community
▪ Crowdfunding
▪ Some PTFS Europe news!

3. Review of 2018
▪ One new staff member
▪ Bernard Scaife - Data Migration Specialist
▪ Succession planning
▪ Nick and Ian increasingly part-time
▪ Janet McGowan - Operations Director
▪ Mark Gavillet - Library Products Director
▪ Nick Phipps - Sales Director
▪ Fiona Borthwick - Customer Relationship Manager
▪ Now have over 260 years of library automation experience
between us!
▪ Feel free to speak to any of our staff today

4. New Customers Live in 2018
▪ Arts University, Bournemouth
▪ Department of Health (RT - Request Tracker)
▪ Foreign Office UK Treaties Online
▪ House of Commons
▪ House of Lords
▪ Loughborough University
▪ Marine Scotland Science
▪ Newcastle City Libraries
▪ Nottingham Colleges
▪ Public Health England (returning)
▪ Royal Asiatic Society
▪ Royal College of Organists (as part of RCM)
▪ Scottish Natural Heritage
▪ Signet Library
▪ Uxbridge College

5. Review of 2018
▪ Survived GDPR!
▪ Renewed our ISO27001 accreditation and accomplished
CyberEssentials
▪ Presented at KohaCon18
▪ Won bid for KohaCon19 (with Interleaf Technology)
▪ New Helpdesk system

6. Review of 2018
▪ Completion of the handover of rebus:list to Kortext and the
CLA
▪ KeyLinks
▪ Refocusing of attention to Koha
▪ In particular ….

7. Review of 2018
▪ Huge amount of work, led by Martin Renvoize, to increase our
community engagement
▪ Release Maintainer for Koha 18.05 and, now, 18.11 (Martin)
▪ 18.11 - 16 new features, 235 enhancements, 432 bugfixes
▪ 91 commits (from Colin, Andrew, Martin, Alex) added for the 18.11
release
▪ helped by Signing off on/QAing 266 bugs (Andrew, Colin, Martin)
▪ Running community IRC meetings (Martin)
▪ Improved some of the release maintenance tooling and tools that
build release notes for customers
▪ donated computing resource by hosting sandboxes and one of the
continuous integration testing servers (Jenkins)

8. Review of 2018
▪ Continued …..
▪ More customer engagement - sign-offs, commits and bug wrangling
from some of our academic and public libraries (Hertfordshire,
Loughborough, Cheshire, Western Isles, Institute of Technology
Tallaght 👍)
▪ Sponsored development - Thanks to all, you know who you are!
▪ Introduced a “mentors” programme (Martin)
▪ Updated translations for en-gb (Jon McGowan)
▪ Large number of manual commits (Lucy, Martin, Andrew, Fiona)
▪ Donations to KohaCon18 and Jonathan Druart (full time community
developer)

9. Thank You!
Jonathan Field
Managing Director, PTFS Europe