 Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the April Pressbooks product update. I'm Steel Wagstaff, the Pressbooks product manager. And I want to show you, start this meeting by showing you some of the things that we have developed and released over the last month. The first, we have a couple of smaller accessibility fixes that we made that we hope will improve experience for all different kinds of users. The first one is on your Pressbooks sign up page. If you were to go to the sign up, you should generally when you're visiting a website, you want to be able to tab through the different options and see clear focus changes. And so we made some improvements for this page. So now I'm just going to start tabbing through and you'll notice as I'm tabbing, there's a visual indicator. This is a blue outline. My visual indicator has changed each time I've tabbed through something so it can clearly show me where the focus is. And so here you'll notice as I'm tabbing down the page, the focus indicators changing and we've just defaulted to the default browser styles. So whatever browser using whatever their focus indicator is, we'll be using this consistently everywhere on the page, you'll see your focus indicator changing and being altered. Another change we made was many of you have added custom logos to your network, and the logo will display all over your, all over your site but previously, when you visited an individual book on a network and you had a custom logo, we added what's called an ARIA label and the ARIA label tells user or screen reader what the contents of a link are. So the label for that link. We had a bug where we were actually displaying the name of the book as the ARIA label for this link, when this link actually takes you back to the network home page so it ought to be the name of your network. So we fixed the ARIA label there so now if you look I'm just showing you the code here but if you were to look here and you'd see inside of this header inside the ARIA label is the name of the network. So now the unsighted users are seeing the correct ARIA label so they understand where that link will take them and what the title of that resources. Another thing that we did was we wanted to improve how we handled what are called digital object identifiers so in press books when you enter book info, you have the option to add a digital object identifier or DOI for a book or for a chapter. What this is is it's essentially a permanent URL that allows you to identify a resource on the web. Many of you that are publishers or library publishers will issue DOIs or have DOIs issued for your book. And you can, you've always been able to enter into the metadata and display it on the home page so here's a sample DOI entered for a book. When you visit the web book. Historically we've always displayed this if you go down to your metadata at the bottom, you'll see the DOI. The change was very minor but DOI the organization that maintains the DOIs used to have their resolver was dx.doi.org and they changed it and they now no longer require the dx.doi they prefer that people just use simply doi.org. So we've just made a very small change so that now whenever you're using DOIs the resolver will just use the recommended DOI URL instead of the dx.doi.org. So that was a DOI resolver change. Another exciting change that we made upon request was we want to we want to be able to support really all of the world's alphabets or languages that people want to write and share their knowledge in. And so in press books there is a feature that allows you to add support for different typefaces or fonts that don't have all of their characters encoded in every font or family typeface. So if you come into your book and click on theme options, you see an existing set of language and script support options. So there's a lot of different languages that have unique alphabets. And when you select an alphabet here, press books will download a specific font face that has all of those characters or glyphs and use it in your book and make it available for your EPUB and PDF exploits. So we did not support the Cherokee syllabary or the Cherokee alphabet. And so now we've added the Cherokee alphabet support for Cherokee, if users would like to use it. So to use this feature you'd simply come into language and script support, you'd select Cherokee for your book, and you'd click save changes. And in that you'll be able in your book to use Cherokee characters and other kind of Cherokee writing as you normally would. So here's an example of a set of Cherokee glyphs in a book. Here's an example of a Cherokee syllabary and then here's more examples of the Cherokee characters. And then when I go to produce my exports in the EPUB and the PDF. What's nice about this is rather than them being rendered as those little like tofu blocks where you can't see the character or question mark. You can see in this particular book. Okay, here we go. So you can see that those characters are rendered correctly in the PDF export output and the same thing will happen for EPUBs. So that was a change we made to improve the experience for authors who might want to use the Cherokee alphabet or the Cherokee language in their books. So another change we made this is going to be primarily for network managers are every user has an individual catalog. Each individual catalog allows them to list whatever books they want for their themselves as a user. This was a feature that was mainly built for self published authors back in the old press books. But some people are still using this and so for example, each user can click my catalog and see their catalog of books and then you have a my catalog page. So if I were to view mine I'm logged in as me. Here's my my catalog page. I haven't done too much with it but here's my my catalog page. So as a, as a logged in user, you can always go and administer your catalog page. But what we've added is network managers would like to be able to administer the catalog page for any user on their site. So what had happened is, sometimes networks had had a particular user that had set up their catalog page, and then that person left. But the network manager wanted to be able to add or remove books from that catalog report to manage it centrally. What will happen is you can click the admin button for if you are a network manager, for example, here's a user that is not me. This is the generic press books user. Here's this catalog. As a network manager, I can click the admin button, and I can administer this catalog so I can say let's take this book out of my catalog. Now, this user's catalog now have that book removed. So here's that for any user on my network. So here's another user. Here's Ricardo. Here's his catalog as a network manager. I can now administer that catalog. So that was a permissions change for network managers that we made that's now available. I don't think it's super widely used but those of you who are using that and need it. Hopefully you know about that and appreciate it. If you've been using press books for a long time. This is primarily for open source users. We have a documentation site. We have docs for the press books open source project. We wanted to make because it's for open source users, we wanted to make it so that open source users could contribute more easily to this documentation page, and could make find edit revise changes. So what you'll see now is that this is actually a static site that's generated from a GitHub repository with a bunch of markdown files. So if that didn't mean anything to you I'll try to unpack that so each one of these pages corresponds to a file or like a simple text file in a GitHub repository. So if I saw that there was an error or a typo in the sentence, what I could do is I could come into this open press books repository, find the relevant document, and then come in and make a poll request or suggest a change to fix or correct the language on a page. So we've we've republished a new page here. This is the documentation for open source press books. And here's the detailed documentation for developers with its own table of contents. We're going to be continuing to improve and refine this and make this a better resource for open source users over the coming months, but that was a change we made we went from having a couple of WordPress installations to doing a single repository with a set of editable markdown files in the hopes that it would it would allow open source users to find and edit and help improve the documentation more easily. A last change we made that release the documentation is if you don't already know about these there is the press books user guide. And we systematically Thomas our support documentation specialist has gone through this user guide we've continued combining and improving chapters. And we've gone through it we just did a big crawl through and made sure that we don't have any broken links, or any links that are pointing to the wrong resources so that was a pretty herculean effort. And we've included that for both this guide and for the network manager guide. Thomas has a bunch of other things planned for documentation improvements and I think he's going to be presenting about that next month. If you have ideas or suggestions for things that you'd like to see in our guides, please let us know you can send them along to me or send along to Thomas at premium support, and we'd love to make sure that our guides and documentation or meeting the needs of you and your users. So those are the big changes that I wanted to share that we were excited to ship to people in last month. Pause again for any questions about anything that I just shared. Okay terrific. So what I want to do is I want to hand it over to my colleague Lee who has a little bit of an update about some brand tidying that we've been doing at press books. So it's not a brand refresh we're not making any huge changes we're just trying to make it so that it's a little easier for folks to talk about press books and there are some brand logos and things that we are getting rid of, because they're just not as useful in describing press books so just to show you what we're doing, so that it's not a shock is this old logo or you see the edu is going away, because it's not very, it's not very clear as a brand, and what will happen is will just lean on the rest of the logos that we have available so you'll keep seeing the press book square. You'll see the press books wordmark here and local horizontal logo and then when referring to the directory, you'll see that one there. What you're actually looking at right now is our brand guidelines so if you ever do use our logos I'm happy to send this to you as well as a zip file file for our logos as well with instructions for proper use of it. And the other change that we're making which I'm very excited about for the sake of my word counts, and my character counts is this authoring an editing platform here. And this word will now be press books create, as opposed to press books authoring an editing platform, and that is an idea that my colleague john had. And it's going to make it a lot easier to fit the name of the product into various places and things so just a heads up that that will be there. Yes, Lee, thank you john for the great idea and you may see or hear us referring to press books create in the future. The idea is when we talk about the platform that we use for authoring editing it's press books a bunch of plugins and themes. We're going to refer to that by the kind of aggregate name press books create and so you'll probably see and hear us using that a bit more in the future. Hopefully it feels like a smooth and natural change. I don't know how many people were religiously saying the press books authoring an editing platform before so so I don't think it's going to be big of a drastic change but but hopefully that's good news for everyone. I just want to say thanks I really appreciate all the feedback that people gave on the planned updates to the network catalog. And it was just great hearing from you about what you're doing thank you for all that you do for open education, and we'll look forward to seeing you in our next product update.