Book Sprint Tools was:(Re: [wsfii-discuss] a couple of things)

Fri Aug 26 01:09:40 UTC 2005

Re: POD system,

Mute say they'll have a drupal-based authoring system which will flow
text directly into graphic templates and output as pdf. I'm holding thier
first POD publication in my hand - it's pretty good.

I've also spent quite a long time working on a proposal to the Arts
Council to get some money to do a print publication - an amalgamation of
publication outcomes from several events happening in October. WSFII is
one, Cybersalon / Future Wireless thing at the Science Museum on the 4th
October is another, and the Open Congress at the tate on the 7th and 8th
is the third.

The documentation project (still not guaranteed to be resourced) is as
follows:

- a full team will be employed to record, document, interview, write-up
  and review all related events happening from the 1st - 12th October.

- a 'publication co-ordinator' will be employed for 6 months (October -
  March) to solicit, collate and edit materials from each event, and each
  group within each event that wishes to participate in producing a
  publication. They will also have employed research assistants for this
  job (for maybe 10-20 days)

- the publication will be produced as a book - amalgamating three
  potential publications - 
        - a 'haynes manual' type 'how-to' compendium from wsfii
          (http://www.haynes.com/)
        - a 'lifestyle magazine' type publication from the cybersalon's
          Future Wireless event
        - a 'reader' from the Tate's Open congress.
  These are characature publications, which maybe could cross-over and
  cross-fertilize more than would seem apparent.

There will (if the application is successful) be funding for design,
print, distribution and promotion of this book, which could really kick
ass.

I'm proposing that during the run-up week to wsfii : 26th - 31st, we
spend some time looking at available public domain documentation from
each stream, and see if we can cobble together an up-to-date and
maintainable haynes manual type handbook about it, that will be useful as
workshop material, and will give the lay-punters (and those from other
FIIS not familiar with all of them) a way to get involved.

If we then get to publish and distribute these - great. If not, well,
we still have a kick-ass set of documentation about each FII that we're
dealing with, which will definitely be useful.

What do people think?

I might put up a wiki page about this...

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