[JoPP-Public] Book of Peer Production

[maxigas]

From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] Book of Peer Production
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:30:22 +0000

> Hi maxigas, all
> 
> OK, so my first possible solution for the projects page was to divide it in several components:
> -some independent from us (surveys, translations)
> -some led by us (books)
> But then I thought that some JoPP-people might do translations as well.
> 
> So I think we will need a more contingent, fluid taxonomy ie "this project
> done by jopp"; "this project outside jopp". Do you want to do this? Let me
> know. Nate commented in a different exchange that we should announce through
> lists etc as it is already circulating, so we need a stable URL.

i don't see "hardcopies of jopp" as something either connected to jopp or not. i
can perfectly imagine that some people in a conference we never heard of decide
to print their own reader from their own selection of jopp articles, and i hope
it will actually happen. if it happens we would put it in the same category as
this one, i guess, because from a reader's point of view it matters little.

that said, we should keep some control of the brand, even if that is rather
futile when we have no trade marks and we are running on a public domain
licencing policy. :)

> Concerning web to print, all sounds good. I don't know much about that so
> happy to help you in any way I can.

great. i think this will became interesting in a few months' time when i
explored options and some stuff that others are working on came out. i also try
to suggest to the feminist issue editors to get a grant which would allow a move
in this direction.

> Concerning PDFs, I agree that the current system is not ideal but until we
> have a 100% foolproof replacement in place I would not support replacing it.

well the one we have is not even foolproof because for instance you have to
enter all the header details, metadata, etc. by hand. i mean you first create
the article and give it a title as a wordpress page, and then you add the title
a second time as metadata? not a foolproof method... not to mention that images
mysteriously dissappear if you put a non-breaking space ("&nbsp;") in your text,
etc.

but as i wrote this is a middle-term plan, i guess that what i want to have does
not exist as code at this time in history... and i agree that it should be as
user friendly, or hopefully friendlier, than the current module we use.

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