[HacktionLab] tech tools illustration

[penguin]

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Hey

I loved the image. I think it will work really well for many 'activists'
(e.g. anarchist book fair folks).

I don't think it will work for all who identify at 'activists' such as
some at http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/activists/

But I don't think a single image will work for such a broad church as
'activists'. So perhaps we might need to think of different imagery for
different audience (e.g. different covers for different audiences - it
worked for Harry Potter, so it must be a good idea!). What I'm talking
about here is different covers of the booklet might be a good thing?

Views?

Peace, love, and masked kittens

G

On Sat 21 Jan 2012 18:29:45 GMT, Ben Green [ben at bristolwireless.net]
emailed subject: "Re: [HacktionLab] tech tools illustration" saying ...

> Quoting Eleanor Greenhalgh <nor at riseup.net>:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> here are links to an illustration I made for the new tech tools booklet.
>> (Thought it'd be easiest to host them myself.) Let me know if you want
>> larger versions etc.
>>
>> B&W for print (900px wide, 300dpi)
>> http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~egreenhalgh/techTools/techToolsBWsmall.JPG
>> Colour for web (900px wide, 72dpi)
>> http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~egreenhalgh/techTools/techToolsColourSmall.JPG
>>
> 
> That's frickin' genius.
> 
> Sadly we agreed last meeting that the next booklet wasn't going to be
> called Tech Tools for Activists, here's the relevant parts of the
> discussion (it's relevant to the design, which might need a couple of
> changes):
> 
> Nov 18 21:22:10 <marker>    Regarding the target group... I would like
> to suggest that we change the title of the book, by a single letter. I
> think we should use "Tech Tools for Activism", rather than "... for
> Activists".
> Nov 18 21:22:20 <penguin>    so not a generic floss is cool, but a how
> to make floss work for activists?
> Nov 18 21:22:24 <marker>    The reason being that these tools are really
> for everyone, and in general I think that for people to identify as
> 'activists' is counterproductive because it propagates the idea that
> political activity is just for a special group of people. I think what
> we want is for everyone to be empowered to undertake political activity,
> so we should encourage everyone to think about their activism, rather
> than addressing a narrow self-defined social group like 'activis
> ...
> Nov 18 21:24:51 <BenG>    given that activists include everyone
> politically active, and not just a subclass of human
> Nov 18 21:25:03 <BenG>    we could change the wording marker
> Nov 18 21:25:14 <penguin>    marker - can you define the target audience?
> Nov 18 21:25:23 <marker>    hmmm...
> Nov 18 21:25:44 <marker>    people who want to use tech tools in their
> political activity?
> Nov 18 21:26:02 <BenG>    I'd go for that
> Nov 18 21:26:29 <BenG>    any pluses or minuses on that peeps?
> Nov 18 21:26:49 <penguin>    i agree - think it's a matter of words, not
> intent. we can change words at quite a late stage
> Nov 18 21:27:23 <BenG>    or marker could edit the notes on flossmanuals
> right now if we all agree
> 
> We edited the style guide on flossmanuals.
> 
> Cheers,
> ==
> From Ben Green
> 
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