[HacktionLab] FYI: Minutes about booklet and what next for it.

Wed Apr 14 14:05:06 BST 2010

Hi JimDog,

Although a nice idea, I for one am opposed to anything as ambitious.   
I think we aim for a quick simple design and get the bloody thing  
printed and out there without any more hold ups.

Mike.

Quoting JimDog <theinnercityhippy at riseup.net>:

> Hey
>
> That sounds amazing! Thanks for volunteering.
>
> I've been thinking about artwork this week. I had an idea that we  
> could ask people we know who produce radical zines to maybe  
> illustrate the user stories so it breaks up the text a bit and opens  
> the whole thing up to a wider audience who may not be directly into  
> geek activism per se but would read it for the illustrations and  
> hopefully pick up on the advice whilst they do.
>
> The downside is that time is as ever short. The london zine  
> symposium is coming up at the end of next month for which i'm trying  
> to get some time off work. Was thinking i could maybe talk to people  
> there, show them the draft and try and get some of them to do some  
> illustrations?
>
> Does anyone know anyone personally that they could maybe ask about  
> this before we go to print? Also, in terms of printing, we could ask  
> footprint workers coop in leeds to do a run for distributing in the  
> north perhaps?
>
>
> Solidarity
>
> jimdog
>
> -original message-
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] FYI: Minutes about booklet and what next for it.
> From: John Hodge <jhodge_98 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 14/04/2010 12:01 pm
>
> Hi there
> I am on this email list, but never contribute to it - maybe I can help now.
>
> If you are looking for help designing the book - I laid-out and did  
> most production and editing on 5 SchNEWS books, as well as 2 other  
> books and numerous booklets, pamphlets, DVD and album covers.
>
> Also - I have recently done a long email interview with Richard  
> Stallman on a range of topics from P2P to copyleft and gnu and other  
> topics he talks about. If you wanted to use any excerpts from this  
> text then you can.
>
> Also - in the 'Free As In Freedom' bit, neither weblink works. And
> after all the emails with RMS lately, I know the one or two places that
> he'd start splitting hairs if he saw that text. I could let you know
> what they were.
>
> Glad to hear about this book, sorry to hear about it so late - I  
> realise it can be hard to incorporate new people in a project the  
> later it gets into the process.
>
> Thanks
> John H
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mike Harris <mike at mbharris.co.uk>
> To: An occasional convergence to discuss technical topics  
> <hacktionlab at lists.psand.net>
> Sent: Wed, 14 April, 2010 9:34:13
> Subject: [HacktionLab] FYI: Minutes about booklet and what next for it.
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've written up the minutes of the salient points from Saturday's book
> sprint session on the booklet.  Please have a look at
> http://hacktivista.net/hacktionlab/index.php/Minutes_of_Spring_HacktionLab_2010#Hacktivist_Booklet
>
>
> If you were there, please read and check them for accuracy.  Thanks.
>
> A few points on next steps then:
>
> *  We decided to give it a break for a couple of weeks to get distance
> from the content.
> *  Then MF, BG and MR said they would be happy to continue to final edit
> it into a version ready to be packaged up.
> *  MF will contact Trapese to ask if they want to help design the
> booklet and if they can offer advice.
> *  It will then go to print: we all agreed to contribute a small amount
> each to doing an initial run of 500.
> *  It will be ready for the gathering in June.
>
> The current working draft of the book is located at:
>
> http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists/
>
> You can create an account, login and get editing, but please bear in mind:
>
> * the style guide at
> * not to make major changes, unless you have good reason or really feel
> inspired to rewrite a whole chapter
> * please don't add loads of technical detail or try to cover too much
> ground in the article: if there's something useful to read on-line, then
> provide a link to it.
> * try to be as simple in your use of language and jargon free as
> possible, this is aimed at n00bs
>
> Finally, we agreed that we would use this very list to discuss major
> edits.  Hopefully this will work to have a dialogue, involve more of you
> in this process, open it up, etc; and hopefully it won't annoy everyone
> with the increase in spam.
>
> Looking, well, better than it was before! ;)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike.
>
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