Catalyst announces 2019 Scholarship winners
Two outstanding students, Emma and Zac, have been awarded the 2019 Catalyst Open Source Scholarship. The scholarships award the students $6,000 each over three years to help...
Open Source Academy Graduation 2019
Every summer Catalyst hosts students of school years 11 to 13, from all around New Zealand and acts as a hub for growing understanding, knowledge and practical skills in open...
Analytics on user interactions with Matomo
The idea of web analytics is not new or revolutionary. In the 1990’s nearly every website had a hit counter, an odometer-style counter at the bottom of the page. That was the very...
The 3Fs of surviving the Flash Apocalypse
I have to be honest, I'm not sure I ever thought this day would come. Having worked in the industry for 15 odd years I feel like the death of Flash has been talked about...
The Elearning Flash apocalypse
Flash is going EOL in 2020 but most browsers will drop support in mid-2019.
Years ago the IT community and popular media got excited about the Y2K bug that was due to plunge us...
Koha tips and tricks 5
Koha is a Library Management System (LMS) used worldwide by approximately 15,000 libraries. The Koha team at Catalyst are passionate about using Koha and helping libraries (big...
Mahara Hui DACH18: Something for every educator
At the end of November, I had the privilege of attending Mahara Hui DACH18, Mahara Hui for Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH). The event was held at PH Wien, the...
Flash Apocalypse: A new Moodle report plugin released
SCORM 1.2 was released in 2001 and Flash was quickly adopted as an easy way to provide interactive elearning packages with popular authoring tools such as Articulate, Adobe...
From designer to developer: Recognising a new career path as an intern
Roisin Pearson was an intern in the Mahara team at Catalyst during the summer of 2017/18, and then continued working in the team on a part-time basis during the holidays and her...
Koha tips and tricks 4
Koha is a Library Management System (LMS) used worldwide by approximately 15,000 libraries. The Koha team at Catalyst are passionate about using Koha and helping libraries (big...
Kohacon 18 : Portland - Coffee, Candy, Code, and Community
I say this every year, and it is true every year, but this year's Kohacon was the best one yet. It wasn't just because of the fantastic food, coffee and craft beer in Portland,...
I am proud to be part of the Koha project because...
I've been working with Koha for nearly seven years, and I'm attached to my job, because, every day I get to come to work and be part of a worldwide project that does...
