From: maxigas <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] Book of Peer Production Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:33:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Mathieu ONeil <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] Book of Peer Production Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:44:47 +0000
Hi all
@Karin: many thanks for your work. It is really great and it means a lot to see this volume come to fruition.
!!! thanks for all the care you put into this.
@Johan: of course, congratulations to you and maxigas for this also. Please save a copy for me. I will email you privately about how to get it.
so, i have a bit more than 20 copies in Barcelona, and i think the rest are in Gotheburg. so for mail orders bother Johan, but if you are passing by Barcelona you can also pick one up from me. i also sold 7 at the Free Culture Forum here.
@All: as discussed we should put the book up on the jopp site. The "projects" page currently describes itself as for projects "which we are not directly responsible for" such as surveys and translations, so either the book goes elsewhere or we change this description. It could go in "news" where the CFPs are posted but then there is a small risk that as we add more content it will lose visibility. I am leaning towards this second option so we can keep "projects" for outside contributions. What do the book editors think?
my opinion is that we should make physical volumes a "project", even in the sense that anybody not associated with the journal can make one (of course ideally they coordinate with us).
i have two ideas how to help making more physical editions:
1. economic: we keep selling this volume and if we sell all, then the anon VC gets his ivestment back and there is some leftover money. we keep the leftover money with a trustee and make it available to finance the next print run of another hardcopy project. i think this is important because it was quite difficult to find the initial money to put into this printing.
2. technical: the pdf generator on the site gave us a lot of headaches and it should be phased out. at the same time there is a renewed web-to-print movement around open source publishing tools, as far as i understand pioneered by Contanz (a group based in Brussels) and also pushed by Manufactura Independente in Lisbon. so we should hook up with these people and see how to implement a system where the user can cherry pick the articles she wants to see in hardcopy, upload a cover and fill out a colophon, etc. and get a pdf ready to print. this would allow people to easily produce readers for conferences, print the new issue, etc.
from these two, 1. is a matter of decision, time and persistence to sell the anthology and 2. needs more thought and actual work. i am happy to take on 2. tenatively and in the middle term, especially if there are a few people who are willing to work me on it, and of course if you think it is a good idea.
ps: i would like to see the next hardcopy made with open source tools, fonts, etc. as well, possibly printed by a cooperative, etc. so that the form is true to the content...
sry i was a bit sloppy with the references there: Constant (Brussels) -- Open Source Publishing Caravan: http://osp.constantvzw.org/ Manufactura Independente (Lisbon) -- Libre Graphics Design & Research Studio http://manufacturaindependente.org/ C. is doing automated web-to-print tools and M.I. open source publications like the Libre Graphics Magazine http://libregraphicsmag.com/ -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ When capitalism started it wasn’t legal.