Community

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Adam Hyde (New Zealand)

Ketty Community Facilitator

Adam brings technical leadership and pioneering insights Coko’s collaborative knowledge production methods and technologies. Adam was awarded the 2015 and 2016 Shuttleworth Fellowship with the goal of building an open source publishing framework.

Dione Mentis (South Africa)

Ketty Technical Manager

Dione is the Coko Technical Manager with a keen interest in optimising open-access production workflows and content development.

Christine Fruin (USA)

Publishing Advisor

Christine is the Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives Manager at Atla. Drawing upon her education and experience as an attorney, she has worked for nearly fifteen years as an academic librarian and library association professional dedicated to promoting access to and use of scholarly research and diverse special and archival collections through utilization of fair use, open access publishing, open source infrastructure, and responsible licensing.

Jason Colman (USA)

Publishing Advisor

Senior Associate Librarian and Director of Publishing Services at Michigan Publishing. Jason’s unit is the home to about 40 open access journals and publishes about 30 books per year across a wide range of disciplines using the open source Fulcrum platform.

Karen Lauritsen (USA)

OER Advisor

Karen has worked with educational communities for 20+ years, and is currently the publishing director at the Open Education Network. She is dedicated to collaborating with the collective to facilitate open knowledge sharing.

Sidorela Uku (Albania)

Kettyl QA Engineer

Coko’s talented QA Engineer.

Silva Arapi (Albania)

Hosting and Deployment Advisor

Silva has been active in the Free Software movement since 2015. Silva is one of the co-founders of Cloud68.co, working to build a sustainable company which makes the use of open source digital infrastructure easy and convenient.

Federico Menoyo (Argentina)

Print on Demand Advisor

Federico is the Project Leader for the publishing industry at Docuprint, he has 15+ years of experience providing supply chain services to global organizations. He is currently the product owner of Livriz, a suite of services for book publishers.

Gayathri Doraiswami (India)

Technical Advisor

Gayathri is the Senior Vice President - Technology & Digital Transformation for publishing services provider Amnet Systems with 23 years of strategic leadership and over a decade experience building and delivering disruptive solutions for global publishing clients across US, Europe, and the UK.

Peroli Sivaprakasam (India)

Technology Advisor

Peroli is an Architect with over 20 years of experience in building SAAS applications. He has over 10 years of experience in publishing domain building web applications on submission, proofing, web-based pagination systems and now manages strategic technology implementations at Amnet Systems.

Julien Taquet (France)

Design Consultant

Julien is a book production expert having honed his skills with CSS book production in rapid production environments like Book Sprints. Julien now is focused on building community around Paged.js and bringing his skills to educate the growing community fo designers wanting to migrate to CSS book design.

Barbara Rühling (Germany)

Workflow Advisor

Barbara has facilitated around 50 Book Sprints since 2013 to create handbooks for NGOs, universities, governments, and companies.

Alexis Georgantas (Greece)

Ketty Developer

Alexis is a full stack engineer with years of experience in applications’ development who admires the open source community and embraces collaboration. He joined Coko as a frontend engineer and works primarily on Ketty.

Giannis Kopanas (Greece)

Ketty Developer

Giannis is a full stack engineer with more than ten years of experience in Web Applications. Giannis built the xpub-collabra journal platform on PubSweet, the Wax word processor and now works with Alexis on Ketty.

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