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Open Source Academy student to Catalyst employee: Aleisha Amohia

10 April 2018

by Brooke Penny

I caught up with Aleisha, one of our Koha Developers, about her experience going from an Open Source Academy student to a Catalyst employee.

Open Source Academy student to Catalyst employee: Priya Patel

27 March 2018

by Brooke Penny

I caught up with Priya, one of our eLearning Consultant, about her experience going from an Open Source Academy student to a Catalyst employee.

The perfect place to start as a woman in tech – the Catalyst Academy

21 March 2018

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 for the 17 (from 22 students) of high school students who identify as women, that attended the Catalyst Open Source Academy 2018.

Why world's largest radio telescope is an opportunity for NZ

15 March 2018

by Olivia Christie

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 are collaborating on the construction of the world's largest radio telescope — the Square Kilometre Array.

Round the Bays 2018 - lessons learnt

20 February 2018

by Jess Freeman

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?

Open values at VALA2018

5 February 2018

by Kathryn Tyree

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 I thought I’d tell you about why the discussions at Vala2018 are interesting and important to us as well.

Official VALA2018 'we are an exhibitor' button

An introduction to Inkscape for absolute beginners

31 January 2018

by Donna Benjamin

Inkscape is a powerful, open source desktop application for creating two-dimensional scalable vector graphics. Although it's primarily an illustration tool, Inkscape is used for a wide range of computer graphic tasks.