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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Hi everyone,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I’ve been on leave for the last couple of weeks so there has been a gap in communication, but I can assure you we’ve been busy :)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">We’ve progressed with work on the Object store for the conversion, resizing and management of image files. We’re also updating our automated tests for both the traditional publishing and PRC workflows.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Due to our high development churn over the last 5 months, we’ve felt the need to stop and take stock of the overall look, feel, usability and user experience of Kotahi. This has resulted in new atomic designs and integration with Storybook for better alignment between component design and code.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> You'll see the updated designs soon. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><img src="cid:ii_l2u9p1hr0" alt="Atomic-Kothai-Example.jpg" width="471" height="447"><p class="gmail-p1" style="text-align:center;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style=""><font size="1">Image above | An example of Kotahi's new atomic designs.<br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">We're discussing support for the bulk upload of reviewers (new users) into the system, and subsequent notifications that can invite prospective reviewers to participate in a peer review cycle. This also involves considering automated peer reviewer 'reminder' notifications as well. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">This week Dan presented at the JATS Conference 2022. Outlining how Kotahi supports production workflows, and how the Wax editor handles tagging and export of valid JATS. Here are the presentation notes; <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK579686/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK579686/</a> - it's a great synopsis. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I wish everyone a good weekend further. </p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><i>Ryan</i></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#999999">Ryan Dix-Peek<br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#999999">Project Manager</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://coko.foundation/" target="_blank">Coko Foundation</a> </span><br></div>
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