The Mount

Down in the Bay of Plenty seeing my ma for her birthday. Happy Birthday Ma! (she reads this blog…)… I had some meetings in the morning so disappeared to Mount Maunganui close to where I grew up. Had breakfast and the meetings on the beach… I used to think ‘the Mount’ sucked, but it ain’t so bad 😉 The island you can see in the distance is Tuhua (Mayor Island) where I went to school camp a few times. Amazing place.

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PrePostPrint

You need to know about these folks..

https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/prepostprint/727

https://prepostprint.org/

PrePostPrint is a laboratory and research group for alternative free publishing workflows. We are specifically interested in the creation of hybrid and printed publications with web technologies.

PrePostPrint gathers those working with experimental publishing techniques and helps to make their projects and tools more accessible. We share the desire to re-think all links in the chain of publishing. We want to forego the classical DTP programs and turn to technologies that are more accessible and sociable, and that can evolve and adapt for each given project. Coding becomes a design tool that permits to reinvent the editorial process, and allows to continuously question and re-invent publishing forms and formats.

Open Source and Scholarly Publishing

Please share! (by me)

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/06/guest-post-open-source-and-scholarly-publishing/

There are many misconceptions about open source and scholarly publishing that often overshadow the enormous potential it has to lead organizations to modernized, efficient workflows and to allow them to innovate sustainably. Let’s take a first look at some commonly asked questions…

Lilli Goat Ruff

Landed in NZ… first time in absolute ages…. I had some hours between landing in Auckland and flying up to my place in Northland, so went to see my buddy Pete. Pete seems to attract animals…he and Debs have had pet chickens, cats, blackbirds, mynah birds, and now a goat… Pete rescued Lilli from the neighbors…so we went for a walk..

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…and of course, went to a cafe and got some smoothies…

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Pete is thinking of changing his last name to Ruff (long and true story) which means Lilli could be known as Lilli Goat Ruff 🙂

Then I flew north, landing at Kerikeri airport. My car has been parked there since I flew out, and I remember I went for a surf just before I parked the car there to fly out to San Francisco. As it happens, yesterday the car park minders saw me coming across the tarmac and met me at the door with my wet suit which they had dried out for me 🙂 .. I had been away for 5 months… Northland… awesome…

…and when I got home as always there was a pile of surprises in the mail that I had sent home while traveling but forgotten about, or that friends had sent… including this awesome book from friends at Times Up in Linz (Austria)..

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I have collaborated with them several times over the years. I love the people and their work… they asked me to write a small piece for their book which made it in 🙂

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..and also in the post some PubSweet badges I ordered…

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..and of course…the view…

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Great to be back.

Rethinking Workflow

I spent an awesome session at UCP with Dan Morgan and Alison O’Connell discussing workflow. We were working through ideas of Journal workflows and how they would be encapsulated in a single system, namely xpub-collabra. It was a super interesting discussion and I think we have some solid concepts that rethinks how systems can capture multiple workflows in such a way they avoid endless configuration options and hardcoded prescriptive paths. We will be creating some narrative around this to get out here for people to think on and feedback…

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