If you are looking for an Open Source alternative to Doodle for scheduling meetings / carrying out polls, I’ve been watching this for a while and it finally has matured: https://framadate.org/
Still some way to go, but very usable…
Wanna join a cool project?
The Restart Project – https://therestartproject.org/ – is looking for an ops lead…they are a really cool project and good people…highly recommended! Apply even if you are faintly interested, you won’t regret it!
https://therestartproject.org/ops-lead/
We are looking for the next stellar member of our small team. As we are poised to make a real step-change, this is an opportunity to help build a fun and inspiring organisation. We have been growing quickly, moving from 2 people in early 2016 to a team of 6 now. We need someone to ensure we are well organised including managing our office space, providing information to funders, managing our performance information and ensuring we keep up to speed on HR policy, pensions and finances.
London Open Drinks
Next week Coko will be sponsoring London Open Drinks – http://londonopendrinks.org/
Many of the Coko crew will be there if you want to join us!
Good mention of Coko’s OS Bazaar
We got a very nice mention here 🙂
http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/force2017-in-berlin-changing-the-culture/
In terms of new publishing infrastructure, the emerging open source toolkits from Coko, the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, stand out as an exciting new development. Coko supports community efforts to build useful techy stuff for open science. To get started, they focus on publication tools. Their workflow toolkit “Pubsweet” avoids the monolithic approach of commercial providers and instead allows almost limitless customization, via flexible components. In principle, every journal or book publisher, small or large, could stitch together the workflow of their dreams, pulling in various building blocks that may already be around, and/or developing own, interoperable components if needed.
Coko Surf Club
I’m in Portugal (Algave) in between events in the EU. I decided to schedule in time to stay in one place while on this 2 month Coko road trip, so Portugal it is. While here I’m doing some work and doing some surfing. Yannis (also works with me at Coko) has joined for a few days since his holiday in the Netherlands got canceled. So, Coko Surf Club reunites!
Palak Paneer
In every Indian restaurant I go to that is not a Dosa hang out, I order Palak Paneer. It’s my quest to find the best Palak Paneer I can. The quest often ends up with tasteless mulched, soggy, spinach in my mouth. But often the dish is delicious.
I’ve tried to make it a few times, but I’ve kinda failed. I haven’t tried for a while but I can remember it not being too tasty or looking kinda limp…
Anyway… so, the recent Shuttleworth Gathering, which is a meet-the-Fellows, staff, and Alumni which happens every six months, was a few weeks ago in Kerala, India. First, I ate myself stupid. The food was amazing. But… on the last full day of the Gathering, Matt Reasons, Mr ‘can do’, organised a cooking lesson led by the head chef of the place we were staying. Whoot! On top of that, I put in a special request to learn how to cook Palak Paneer ‘properly’…and what do you know…
I was joined by chefs Isha, Ryan, and Kef.
The coolest kids on the block. We had heaps of fun and the food tasted awesome. Snap of the recipe below.
There are some tricks to it of course…but ..y’know…thats between me and the chef 🙂
Open Source Bazaar
Yesterday Coko put on an event in Berlin about open source for publishing …it was a great day!
Presentation on INK and xpub
A presentation I gave yesterday on xpub at the Coko and Friends meet in Berlin.
and the same day I did a presentation on INK
Great article on open source for open science
From Paul Peters, CEO for Hindawi, a great article on open source and open science/open access.
Rare in the scholarly publishing scene to find someone that understands the value of open source as clearly as is articulated here.
I’m So Lucky
I’ve been a Shuttleworth Fellow for just on two years, entering my third and final year. It has been an amazing experience. Right now I am in India at a Shuttleworth event. Of course the venue is just fantastic, surrounded by lakes in the beautiful district of Kerala. The meeting is on a boat (we are staying in amazing rooms on land). But also, its just incredible to me that I am here with 20 or so other fellows and what an astonishing bunch of people they are. Just totally amazing.
Feeling extremely lucky to be here.