Nominate Bika LIMS for the SF.net 2009 Community Awards

Bika LIMS @ Sourceforge.net is vying for the 2009 Community Choice Awards

Nominate Bika for:

• Bika open source LIS/LIMS for Best Project

• Bika open source LIS/LIMS for Best Project for Academia

Bika Health @ Global LIS Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam

Bika Health and it's newly formed foundation were represented in the Global LIS Conference held in Hanoi, Vietnam from the 23rd to the 26th of September, by Lemoene Smit, Project Manager and CEO of Bika Lab Systems and Director of the Bika Health Foundation.

More info and a copy of the delivered presentation will be posted in the next week or so on Bikalabs.com, but here already a shot of our stand.


By all accounts, it was a great success!

Easy Setup file for Bika 2.1 Inkosi on Windows XP & Vista

I want to make everybody out there aware who wants to try Bika LIMS 2.1 'Inkosi' on their Windows XP or Windows Vista machine, that there is now an easy install file (executable) for Bika LIMS, the only pre-requisite is to have Plone 2.5.5 installed. The executable was created by our partners at the University of Costa Rica, to which we, at Bika Lab Systems, owe many thanks!

Here the original mail and link copied in (originally posted on the Bika Developer Mailing List):

Recently we made an executable file that installs Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi directly in Windows XP (and Windows Vista) without having to change anything to have it running. The only requirement is that Plone 2 has to be installed in 'C:/Program Files/Plone 2/', but maybe later we can make an installation file that checks the plone 2 path and install bika according to it. In the meanwhile here is this file, maybe it can be helpful to someone, greetings.
Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi Setup
--
Andrés Oreamuno.
Centro de Investigación en Contaminación Ambiental
Universidad de Costa Rica

This news and the file will soon also appear on our website

Installation Notes:
Once you've run the set-up programme, you need to run the IDServer and Zope. Go to Zope Management Interface and add a new Plone Site, with Extension Profile 'bika'. And you should be up and running!