An OpenScience flavour of Bonfire on NixOS for preprints
Discuss preprints based on W3C ActivityPub federation
Preprints have revolutionised scholarly publishing, offering a rapid and open way to share research findings, establishing priority, receiving early feedback, and accelerating scientific discovery. Online discussions around preprints regularly take place on social media, but there still exists a gap in encouraging fluid discourse around science and making it a recognised academic activity.
This project aims to address the gap by facilitating and integrating these conversations into the scholarly framework using FOSS tooling. Outcomes include; establishing a Bonfire network tailored for preprints, with reproducible deployment made possible via NixOS, bringing existing communities into the Fediverse, amplifying contributions using existing scholarly infrastructure, exploring new models of peer evaluation, and supporting recognition of this crucial scholarly activity.
- The project's own website: https://sciety.org
Run by eLife Sciences Publications Ltd.
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
