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Update: Due to demand, we have changed locations for the meeting to Oriental Bay Community Centre Band Rotunda Room. Details below.

The Kete Community Meeting is a gathering for those that use the Kete open source software, those that are considering using it for their projects, or anyone that wants to know more about Kete.

The meeting helps existing and planned Kete projects coordinate their efforts and share stories of what has worked for them as well as the obstacles they have encountered.

The agenda is set collaboratively using Kete itself. Come shape it at Agenda for the November 2009

The Kete 1.3 release will have some exciting functionality for integrating content from multiple sites, say your Koha3 catalog and perhaps a national content metadata aggregation service like DigitalNZ, into your Kete site.

I'm happy to announce that this work has been bundled up into a standalone open source Ruby on Rails engine to be used by other applications to enjoy the same capabilities. The engine was funded by DigitalNZ and Katipo. It also includes work that was originally funded by Auckland City Libraries.

Here's the full announcement:

[ANN] External Search Sources Rails Engine

Announcing the release of the External

I'll be in Auckland for the launch of the latest Kete site (that I know about) during the Rising Dragons, Soaring Bananas Conference starting Friday July 17th. I figured why not throw a Kete Meetup while in Auckland. If you have any burning Kete questions or just want to see what other Kete users are up to, this is a great way to see and hear about the latest goings on with Kete.

I'll bring along my laptop and will demo upcoming features. I'll also any questions you may have about how to make the most of your site's configuration.