I love fountain pens but you do have to be aware of things like “weather decided it’s a leaky pen day”

(Sudden changes in air pressure can cause fountain pens to blorp) #fountainpen

god help us we're idly chitchatting about a sysadmin/dev consultancy

obviously a shit ton of you want precisely this, and i can see you twitching for the YES I WANT IN button - but DON'T do that yet there is no thing here

but how the fuck do we sell this? None of us have any fucking idea how to market a consultancy, we all find doing sales makes us want to die

so. how the arsing fuck does one sell one's tech services?

also if you’ve established a consultancy before and can give an overview of the process and stuff we haven't even thought of, do feel free to chime in

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/116702037049926326

The rebellions continue!

The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read!

And they did this with the help of Open Library for Humanities: an organization that coordinates 35 journals like this, and develops software to make it easy for you to set up your own.

The executive director, Caroline Edwards, says:

“It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At Open Library for Humanities we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature."