Public Knowledge Project is just plain incredible. I visited their site and my jaw dropped: open source software for creating, organizing, and running academic journals and conferences! Of course I have no idea how to organize or run either one of those, but it just feels liberating to know that educators and programmers are working to create tools that make these kinds of activities possible for more and more people.

If I had it in me, I would try the Open Journal System and try to get something going for adjunct-centered research. But, I don’t have that in me just yet. Perhaps someone else does? And I do not see why this kind of software could not be applied to organize an adjunct-themed conference — perhaps it could even be an all digital conference just to see what the results and reception are.

Am I a goofball, or does this seem viable?

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