There is sooooo much going on at Coko…I was getting some links together to help someone understand Editoria… the list is long! Providing them below in case you are interested! Coko – https://coko.foundation https://gitlab.coko.foundation/ https://gitlab.coko.foundation/dashboard/activity https://mattermost.coko.foundation/ —- Editoria: www – https://editoria.pub (bring overhauled) app – https://gitlab.coko.foundation/editoria Roadmap – https://gitlab.coko.foundation/editoria/editoria#roadmap —- Tech Editoria uses: XSweet roadmap … Continue reading “Some Links about Editoria”
Current Founder Manager of Coko Shuttleworth Fellow Founder Owner Book Sprints Founder Manager Cabbage Tree Labs Technical Advisor OA Switchboard Management Board EIFL CoFounder Coalition for Open Access Publishing Infrastructures in Africa Founder Open Publishing Awards and the Open Publishing Fest Bio I am the founder of Coko (Collaborative Knowledge Foundation) and responsible for oversight … Continue reading “About Me”
These are the things I am currently working on under Coko, PagedMedia etc… At the top is the stuff I’m most focused on whenever I last updated this page (April 15, 2018). Consequently what I am thinking about here often surfaces in my recent blog posts. You can see I am pretty busy! Managed Deployments … Continue reading “What I’m Working on Now”
Editors are a hard problem. I don’t mean editors-the people… although that might also be true 😉 … I mean the technology you use to write and edit WYSIWHAT?documents. Its tough stuff. Over the years I’ve bet on several of them starting when I first replaced the native wiki-markup editor in TWiki with TinyMCE… and … Continue reading “Pondering Editors”
Tam, an outstanding chap and great person to have involved with the Coko community, built a nice bot for our Coko online chat (we use Mattermost). Anyone can tag a comment in mattermost with :cokobot (a shortcut for the cokobot icon) and that comment will be included in a weekly newsletter emailed out to the … Continue reading “Coko Bot”
Just arrived in Athens. The Coko Athens team (now 4) are here and all in good form. Today I checked out the new office and we talked through a lot of items including: recap of the PubSweet London meet for Alexis and Christos who weren’t there discussion about a new developer for Athens discussion about … Continue reading “Athens, Singapore, SF…”
So, I have been surfing for about 3 months now. Which of course means I’m still really crap. But over that time it seems I have already surfed nice beach breaks in Costa Rica (where I did a one week surf school in July), reef breaks in Hawaii, some nice beach rollers in Linda Mar … Continue reading “Surfn, but not with a browser”
I’ve been in the business of trying to work out how to get Publishing (capital ‘P’) into the web. From the start, there have been some ‘big ticket’ items that have needed to be solved. Some are more urgent than others, but by and large we are cracking these nuts one by one. I have … Continue reading “The big 4”
The past two posts I wrote on this topic looked at defining the difference between a text editor and a word processor. The posts in this series represent me ‘thinking out loud’ about what word processing needs to evolve into in the age of the web. So far, in my opinion we haven’t seen an evolution … Continue reading “Towards Web-based Word Processors p3”
We (Coko) are going to work through some smaller issues on XSweet. XSweet is our XSLT scripts that convert MS Word to HTML Typescript. We need to keep filling out small gotchas but mainly we look into table conversion and some font fixes. So far though, XSweet is looking pretty sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet….. In other news – … Continue reading “XSweet 1.0 coming, HTML to JATS also”