Do you use a service for this or something of your own?
(I'd encourage a real feed in any case. It's past time to push more information through open channels).
There are dozens, but that is the one I use. It's simple and no-bullshit.
One of the projects I would like to get to this year is writing a crawler that can format twitter and a few other sites that lack a proper RSS feed into an atom feed for me.
This is obviously due to the privacy concerns of pushing the feed through a random third party that can log my IP and determine which feeds I follow.
Still... what I have now is better than using twitter directly.
If you can't provide rss in a simple manner, perhaps you can use twitter but always with the same hashtag so that some service can be used. Twitter <> rss
It's great to see academics come together to create and promote a free access journal.
It seems like the migration away from closed-access journals may happen on a case-by-case basis. Highly-regard open access publications are already quite common in some fields (e.g., machine learning) but virtually non-existent in others.
It would be nice to have a turn-key solution for an open-access journal, which would let the people in charge focus on the important stuff (organization, recruitment of volunteers, etc.). The platform would handle internal and external communication, the submission process, the review process, publication and archiving, etc. Not sure there's much financial incentive for such a project though.
The site mentions that the journal is sponsored by the AOSA non-profit. Pardon my ignorance, but what organization is that? There's no direct link to the sponsoring org from the website, and searching for AOSA non-profit yields a large list of increasingly unlikely sites.
* Architecture of Open Source Applications (the book spawned a non-profit maybe?)
* American Orff-Schulwerk Association, promoting creativity in learners
On the "article" page, sixth bullet, follow the <Programming> Conference link[1]. On the conference page, find the copyright at the bottom, follow the AOSA link[2]. Finally, hover on AOSA in the first paragraph.
Finding this information should not have required such meandering.
Yes I had seen that, but <Programming> seems to be having its first conference this year, and Modularity's proceedings seem to be closed up in the ACM Library. So it was difficult to ascertain anything about AOSA and it's mission as an organization from that info.
Thanks that's very informative! There are many elements of it that might have been interesting to include on the Journal site itself. It's great to see new open-access Journals opening up!
The "Journal" in the HN title should be "journal". Also, "the" in the title should be "The". Title of the article is "Introducing The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal".
