Author: Joe

We had an interesting bug recently. One of our books was published by Amazon KDP, but it appeared as ‘unavailable’ immediately after publishing. This is very strange. Amazon prints books like ours on demand when they are ordered: they can never be out of stock (or even ‘in stock’ for that matter: stock is meaningless). […]

Over the last few months we’ve moved all our online projects away from Dreamhost and over to Amazon Web Services. It was a steep learning curve of various sysadmin tasks but we had outgrown Dreamhost by some margin and had dealt with enough poor customer service to make it satisfying to leave. There have been […]

Joe has been working on a new project. Quite often in a White Water Writers camp, our team will ask to draw something to put in the book. This is totally reasonable to ask, but also goes against everything we do: we carefully set up a situation where the writers have to work together because […]

We’re doing our second field trial of IMPS3 this week. This trial was the first one done with a school rather than a university, and the first time we’ve run it without Joe, who wrote the code, on site. I’m really optimistic about it – I’m looking forward to a new age with our writers […]

Check out this cool certificate/picture thing we got for White Water Writers: In their commentary the judges mentioned “The analysis of the problem was clear. Impressively practical, real-world and rapid experiences for the target groups of people. Particularly loved the clear Monday blank sheet of paper to Friday on Amazon line, all very compelling”. This […]

One of the projects we maintain is CommuniKate. It’s an open-licensed page set for use in AAC devices. Notably, it was the first such page set and thus gets used in lots of small (and large – see e.g. Optikey) open source AAC software systems. We got a lovely message last week to say that […]

We’ll be moving the Open Voice Factory from one hosting provider to another on Tuesday the 29th March. There might be momentary disruption to users who are using the current version of our client (which runs on a different network anyway, but *does* access files on our server. There may be longer disruption for very […]

We’ll be moving the Open Voice Factory from one hosting provider to another on Tuesday the 15th March. There might be momentary disruption to users who are using the current version of our client (which runs on a different network anyway, but *does* access files on our server. There may be longer disruption for very […]

We’re planning on moving The Open Voice Factory to a new server in a few weeks. and so I’ve reviewed and updated the Risk Assessment for the software. You can read it below. We’ve always had a very very very hands-off attitdue to data for the Open Voice Factory – we don’t collect data on […]

This week we published a book and used a new experimental (and very cool) collaborative writing platform to do it.  On Friday we published Catherine’s Canvas. It was written by a group of creative writing students at UCLAN, and it’s a dark tale of murder and abuse.  It’s always awesome to watch writers grow as […]