[Arm-netbook] New Open Access Journal for Open Source Hardware

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater
<amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:26:11PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
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>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 1. September 2016 20.04.58 Mike Leimon wrote:
>> >> Greetings all,
>> >>
>> >> One of my friends brought this new open access journal to my attention this
>> >> morning. Apparently, it is just starting up now and looking for an initial
>> >> call for papers.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/hardwarex/
>> >
>> > It's interesting to know that Elsevier think it's worth "taking a punt" on
>> > something like this, even though they publish books and journals on anything
>> > and everything. It may help to get attention from a wider audience.
>>
>>  which begs the question (bringing things back to a positive note) -
>> so thank you to mike for raising this so that the idea can come about:
>> why the heck don't we set up some sort of journal / conference at some
>> point?  or find a suitable existing conference and ask them if they'd
>> like to run a track.  fosdem2016 or something.  fosdem's big enough
>> (but might also be too big already).
>>
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> There's a mini-Debconf at ARM in Cambridge in November ...

 oo that'd be fun.  bit early.  i was thinking more along the lines of
after people have their pledges, so they have some opportunity to play
with them.

> Elzevier - avoid at all costs if you value freedom in any respect.
> Various scientific folks have begun to boycott them and publish
> in house or independent peer-reviewed publication.

 iiinteresting...

> FOSDEM might well be an option.

 it's around the right time - i may still be in the far east though.

l.