We’re delighted to introduce Ricardo Aragón and Sarah Fennessey, the newest members of the Pressbooks organization. Ricardo has joined us as a full stack developer, and Sarah has taken the role of institutional sales manager. Prior to joining Pressbooks, Ricardo spent several years working as a software developer for Argentinian technology companies, most recently serving
We’re delighted to introduce you to Amy Song, the newest member of the Pressbooks organization. Amy will be working from our Montréal office as our new customer support specialist, where she’ll be helping people use Pressbooks to meet their publishing and educational needs and maintaining our user-facing documentation and training resources. Because Amy will soon
As a company headquartered in Quebec, we’re particularly pleased to announce that the Pressbooks administrative interface now has 100% coverage for French language users! Thanks to contributions from eCampusOntario, we recently oversaw the professional translation (by TCI, Inc.) of the webpage interface and various administrative menus. To find out how to set up your user
Pressbooks has some accessibility news to share: we’ve released our first VPAT and our administrative interface has achieved compliance with WCAG 2.0 A and AA guidelines as of Pressbooks 5.7.2.
In a previous post, I took a look at the year in review for the Pressbooks community (the people who make and use our software). In this post, I’ll take a closer look as Pressbooks as a product, covering some of the exciting changes and developments to our software made in 2018 by our hard-working
When others ask me what Pressbooks is, I often say that it’s two things: 1) terrific open-source book publishing software and 2) the people who make, use, and care about that software. If there’s still time and interest, I go on to explain that Pressbooks is a collection of open-source software components, largely built on