Open Source Academy student to Catalyst employee: Aleisha Amohia
I caught up with Aleisha, one of our Koha Developers, about her experience going from an Open Source Academy student to a Catalyst employee.
What year was it when you were...
Open Source Academy student to Catalyst employee: Priya Patel
I caught up with Priya, one of our eLearning Consultant, about her experience going from an Open Source Academy student to a Catalyst employee.
What year were you a...
The perfect place to start as a woman in tech – the Catalyst Academy
by Aleisha Amohia
The last thing a young woman expects when she’s walking into a technology-related course or workshop, is to be in a majority group. This was the case...
Why world's largest radio telescope is an opportunity for NZ
The NZ SKA forum took place recently at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
This four-day event brought together a wide variety of national and international visitors who...
Round the Bays 2018 - lessons learnt
I'll be honest, enrolling and organising a fun run for colleagues, sounded like anything but 'fun'. How does the words fun and run even go together? I suspect using the tag “Dumb...
Open values at VALA2018
Around about now I should start emailing you to say, “come and talk to Catalyst about your library technology plans! Visit me at Stand 44 at #Vala2018!” right? Well, yes, but...
An introduction to Inkscape for absolute beginners
Image credits : John Morgan on Flickr, CC BY 2.0
Inkscape is a powerful, open source desktop application for creating two-dimensional scalable vector graphics....
Congratulations Brimbank Libraries! Welcome to the Koha Community.
Late last year, Brimbank Libraries undertook a major upgrade to their library software system. With the support of Catalyst IT, Brimbank replaced their 20 year old library...
Serverless Computing in OpenStack
Qinling delivers Function as a Service (Serverless Computing) in OpenStack clouds.
Lingxian Kong and Feilong Wang are senior cloud engineers from the Catalyst Cloud...
Blockchain 101 - part 2
Introduction
In my previous post I covered key concepts fundamental to understanding blockchain technology, and detailed a small handful of real world use-cases. In this post I...
Work In Progress
On November 8, some Catalystas attended the Work in Progress Conference in Wellington.
We had the privilege of listening to a whole day of incredible speakers who opened our...
Moving away from Symantec Certificate Authorities
An ever-growing number of security issues have been identified with certificates issued by Symantec Certificate Authorities (CAs) over recent years. Affected certificates include...
