passed on from Christos..looks good…
Category: blog post
New PubSource out
PubSource is our weekly news about Publishing and Open Source. Put together by Alison, now in its third week and looking great!
Don’t mind me…just thinking aloud…
I’m going to write a small guide to building open source communities….so, will use this blog as a scratch pad.
First some links of previous stuff:
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Those organisations building platforms on top of PubSweet gather together every 3-4 months for our PubSweet Community Meeting. It started off as Coko, Hindawi and eLife but now we are also joined by the wonderful folks from the European Bioinformatics Institute. The events usually go for 2 da
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Open source software that is to succeed in this new world is going to have to be better than anything else. You can’t sell just openness anymore.
Opensource.com
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If we want open source UX to improve, we have to change the way we’re approaching the problem. Learn how the itch-to-scratch model works if we’re consistent in how we apply it.
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Open source has been amazingly good at solving two sets of issues: 1) infrastructure and 2) developer tools. This is because those developers and users are basically the same people—the developer is an “insider” to the problem, understands it well, and is motivated to solve it.
Oh my gawd….didn’t think there would be so much of my own stuff to re-read first! eeek!
Book Sprints buys its first Art Piece
From the awesome artist Nicky Broekhuysen (NZ).
Julie Presenting Paged.js at DPUB
Walking With James
My neighbour James came over and we headed for a 5 hr walk down to Onoke – an abandoned peninsula I can see from my place. It was an awesome walk. James is a good story teller for walks like this 🙂
More cokocasts!
I published this one here a few weeks ago but its now part of the Who is Coko series…all about Christos and building editors 🙂
Surf’n
Spent the last 3 days surfing. Yesterday my buddies Pete, Julie and Hunter joined me at Matauri Bay. Today we hoped all could make it at Shipwreck Bay but Julie and Hunter couldn’t get there in the end. So Pete and I went to Rarawa where we literally had dolphins swimming under our boards. Then to Mukies (near Shipwreck Bay) for a dusk surf (when the sharks have dinner 🙂 ). Started with a foggy Rawene ferry ride then driving through to Ahipara where I met Pete, and we continued on to Rarawa.
Trying out Podcast Generator
Open source podcast management software for podcasters…
http://www.podcastgenerator.net/home
Will give it a whirl.
Coko and Open Textbook Network!
We just got a grant to build out library infrastructure for creating open textbooks. We are collaborating with the Open Textbook Network on this… awesome folks! more info here: