In the latest of our Who is Coko? series I talk to the wonderful Christos Kokosias. Christos has been working with Coko for 3 years. Almost since the beginning! He started working on Editoria but is now our word processor guru. Christos built Wax 1 and is currently working on the vastly improved wax 2….
PubSource is a collection of news briefs on interesting projects that touch our community. If you have a news item you’d like us to include in the next PubSource, please share with team@coko.foundation. Funding for work on Open Source tools for advancing biomedical research The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is seeking funding applications from open…
3 weeks ago I promoted Alison McGonagle-O’Connell to the management team. As part of our Who is Coko? series I wanted to find out more about who Alison is, her background in Publishing, and what made Alison want to leave a comfy job at a large Publishing organization to come work with us. Adam: Alison…
More faculty will be able to create their own open textbooks thanks to a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support a collaborative project led by the Open Textbook Network (OTN), in partnership with Coko. “A National Platform for Authoring Open Textbooks” seeks to lower barriers…
PubSource is a collection of news briefs on interesting projects that touch our community. If you have a news item you’d like us to include in the next PubSource, please share with team@coko.foundation. eLife Solicits Feedback This week, eLife is gathering feedback from the publishing community about the platforms we use to host and present journal…
“I thought I wouldn’t be able to be a facilitator because I have strong opinions of my own, and the role of the facilitator is to dissolve into the curtains and let others decide things, but I enjoy it now and I think its the most valuable thing that I do for PubSweet.” Continuing our…
Coko Surf Club is a collection of characters who gather when possible, such as after meetings that may be conveniently situated near surfable beaches. So far, the group has met in the waves around New Zealand, the UK, Greece and the west coast of the US. I’ve been eager to join these meets, yet tentative,…
With the establishment of the new management team, I found myself curious how founder Adam Hyde arrived in leadership. His unique style makes Coko what it is today, so as I began to reflect on this, I had many questions. I decided to interview him and share his responses here. Alison: Adam, you have…
We are happy to announce the next PubSweet Community meeting in Cambridge, UK on August 29 and 30. All organizations building against PubSweet are welcome and encouraged to attend, share work, and participate in discussions and work groups. More information and agenda forthcoming.
It’s the beginning of a new chapter in the Coko story, and we are writing it together in Detroit, Michigan ahead of the Association of University Presses meeting, which we will attend and present at. We, of course, are Coko’s new management team, Adam, Jure and I. Together, we are discussing the structure of the…
We’ve been waiting years for this moment to come and now that it did, I can say it was worth the wait! What am I talking about? Why the PubSweet collaboration week, of course! Specifically, I’m talking about asking multiple organizations, with diverse goals and approaches, to contribute their components and other improvements back to…
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