Tag: YLD

Newsbot

Tamlyn Rhodes from YLD in London has developed a cool robot for our instance of Mattermost. It is a newsbot. Essentially, anyone in the Coko Townsquare channel can message ‘@newsbot subscribe’ and will be subscribed to the Coko community newsletter.

The newsletter is an automatically prepared email, compiled once a week. The robot looks through all posts that start ‘#weekly’ (we use this for weekly updates) or ‘:cokobot:’ (tags with a cokorobot icon) and adds these items to the weekly image newsletter (bot icon by Julien Taquet)….we are trying it out this week! Cool stuff. You can see Tamlyn in the pic below, center stage in orange. Photo taken last week at the London PubSweet meet.

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Surfing and Stuff

I’m taking a holiday in Hawaii to surf and do nadda for a week. I hired a 9ft Walden Magic from Mikes Maui Beach House. Nice folks. Wind is up but I had a good day yesterday on some small waves.

In the meantime, Coko had a big announcement. Announced at COASP (Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers) by eLifes Mark Patterson. You can find the complete announcement here:

https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/67d013c4/elife-and-collaborative-knowledge-foundation-partner-to-deliver-open-source-submission-and-peer-review-platform

In essence, eLife is building on top of PubSweet to build their new manuscript submission system. They will possibly re-use parts of the PubSweet components built for Collabra. That’s the beauty of the PubSweet ecosystem – you can reuse what you want, and build only the new stuff (significantly reducing the burden).

We are already collaborating with eLife and have been for some 4 weeks to refactor parts of PubSweet according to some excellent recommendations made by eLife and their dev partners YLD. They are all great people to work with.

Stay tuned, more interesting news to come!