News & Events | Catalyst NZ

Some of our more recent achievements for clients and the work we do around free and open source software

Government commitment to “Open”

17 April 2018

The Labour / NZFirst coalition government (supported by the Green party) have stated a commitment to “Open” including:

Mahara 18.04: Ready for the GDPR and the cloud

6 April 2018

Catalyst released Mahara 18.04 on 6 April 2018. It has a lot of new features including GDPR compliance and connection to the cloud.

The 7th New Zealand Open Source Awards

6 April 2018

2018 marks the year for the 7th New Zealand Open Source Awards and we are pleased to announce that nominations are now open.

Koha user group - Whanganui, NZ 2018

12 February 2018

All libraries currently using Koha, Koha enthusiasts and the Koha-curious are welcomed!

Catalyst Appoints External Director

2 February 2018

Catalyst, the New Zealand-based, global open source company, today announced that Sara Brownlie has agreed to join the Catalyst board as an external director.

NZ's newest Koha public library: Whanganui District Libraries

1 February 2018

Whanganui Library was the first public library of New Zealand to quietly leave the Kōtui consortium in 2017. In March they put out an RFP for a new Library Management System, to which we responded

Spectre and Meltdown - security advisory

8 January 2018

By now you will likely have heard about these two new security vulnerabilities, which affect most modern processors. We are treating these issues as high priority.

Data protection in the United States

19 December 2017

Who has legal jurisdiction over cloud data? As cloud providers ourselves, we've been watching this issue with interest over the last couple of years.

Catalyst Cloud signs reseller agreement with Silicon Systems

14 December 2017

Catalyst Cloud is pleased to welcome Silicon Systems to our reseller network.

Silicon Systems will be reselling Catalyst Cloud, taking advantage of our competitive pricing and low latency, while while maintaining their prime vendor relationship with their customers.