Presenting at the DPUB summit in Berlin, May 17, about open source and publishing. Details below.
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Coko Meet Day 2
A day of working today at the Coko team meet in Athens. Topics included PagedMedia, ProseMirror, Funding, Workflow, Authsome, Workflow Sprints, xpub, Editoria, collaboration around design and much more…
Coko Team Meet Day One
The Coko team are in Athens, Greece, for 3 days in a team meeting. Photos from day one…
Interesting Moves at PLOS
http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2018/04/plos-update/
“Much of this is related to a strategic decision to shift from developing a proprietary platform for submissions”
Pondering A Publishing Event
I used to do lots of events back in the day. The last big one I was really involved in was called net.congestion when I lived in Amsterdam around 2000… it was about the use of streaming media in art and activism. It actually turned about to be a huge, and timely, event.
So… now I’m pondering maybe putting something together around publishing…in the last year or so I have been fascinated by workflow in publishing. It seems to me to be a rich topic and pretty much publishing is all about workflow… if you would like to collaborate to make it happen let me know…its in the ponder stage at the moment…
Cool boards…
NZ shaper Jack Candlish – https://organicdynamic.com
100% eco surfboards… recycled polystyrene, home grown timber, plant based resin… pretty awesome. Some cool vids online about their boards.
Hanging with the Richard
I’m in London for a full Sunday with some time on my hands so caught up with Richard Smith-Unna. A good buddy, and good to hang out with. We walked up and down the foreshore on the Thames…
Rik also is the chap behind the awesome Science Fair app. Check it out!
On the Road Again
Leaving tonight for London. Then:
- London for 3 days (til April 10)
- April 11-13 Athens for a Coko team meeting
- April 13 – 21 working with the team in Athens
- April 23 NZ for Visa processing
Then to San Francisco for a short time before heading to Berlin around May 14 to present at the Digital Publishing Summit.
Collaboration Pics
I love photos of people collaborating, its almost a genre in its own right. One of my favorite sources is the Book Sprints albums. Each Book Sprint the crew takes a load of photos and uploads them… here are some recent ones I like.
PagedMedia Page Floats
Some time ago I employed Julie Blanc from my Shuttleworth Fellowship to work for the PagedMedia project. Julie has been doing amazing work and just today released this incredible article about Page Floats:
With a running demo app: http://demos.pagedmedia.org/page-floats/
Really amazing stuff. Please share it widely!
(Julies demo code is here – https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/JulieBlanc/demo-page-floats)