http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Mon, 02 Oct 2017 06:16:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a lot more testing, discovering bugs, fixing bugs and further testing, we've finally generated our 2nd release candidate for Greenstone 2.84. This time, there's also a binary for the MacOS (tested on Leopard). Most of the bugs this time round (after Release Candidate 1) had to do with dynamically linked ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-02-25/release-candidate-2-of-greenstone-284-out/ Please take the Greenstone User Survey!  10-15 minutes of your time can help us learn more about Greenstone software users and developers. With your help, we will gain a better understanding of Greenstone software and support resource use and satisfaction; in what ways Greenstone users interact with and use the ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-06-18/greenstone-user-developer-survey/ The Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) consists of many libraries developing digital collections with the aid and assistance of a number of National Centres of excellence. To date the Network has National Centres at libraries in Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. The Support Network would like to include more countries ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-06-03/expanding-the-southern-african-greenstone-support-network/ We are pleased to announce that the Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.81 are now available for download from: http://www.greenstone.org/download The main focus has been on multilingual support. Improvements include handling filenames that include non-ASCII characters, accent folding switched on by default for Lucene, and character based ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-11-13/greenstone-281-released/ There will be a 4-day Greenstone Workshop at the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) on 12-15th May 2008. The workshop is hosted by the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology and the instructor will be Prof. M.G. Sreekumar - further details are in the workshop brochure (PDF). Bess Sadler ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-04/workshops/ International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management at Kathmandu, Nepal HealthNet Nepal and Tribhuvan University, Central Library, Kathmandu, Nepal is organizing ICIKM-2008 from March 24-29, 2008 at Kathmandu, Nepal. The theme is "Information and Knowledge Management in a Connected World: A Challenge for the Developing Countries." The conference will include a ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-10-18/international-conference-on-information-and-knowledge-management-at-kathmandu-nepal/ We are glad to announce that a three day Advanced Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) is organised at National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from December 26th to 28th, covering Multilingual capability and Interoperability concepts in GSDL, for those who are familiar ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-09-28/three-day-advanced-workshop-at-iisc/