[wsfii-discuss] Re: Whole Infrastructure Catalogue

Wed Oct 19 20:23:25 UTC 2005

I was going to mention the Mute project, as it seemed very  
appropriate to this project.

As was also mentioned is that printing is only part of the puzzle,  
distribution is the other. Mute have a model (ideas) for this as well  
from the brief discussion I had with Simon at wsfii. But there are  
other projects that can be part of the solution (bookmobiles etc.)

Something that interests me a bit, I would love to get involved in  
this. I wrote a number of papers / presentations about grass roots  
responses to disasters a few years ago. This project / idea is a  
great response to this kind of thing, actually creating the toolkit  
to help this response.

cheers,

mark.

On 18 Oct 2005, at 11:11, Julian Priest wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:09:47AM +0200, Tomas Krag wrote:
>
>
>> We are also spending some time researching Print on Demand  
>> opportunities
>> etc.
>>
>
> I don't know if anyone say Mute's 'Precarity Reader', which was being
> show at wsfii. It was a very nice paper back format produced using pod
> at very low cost - about 1.50 GBP per copy.
>
>
>> Admittedly we are not doing this with wiki -> book auto conversion,
>> mostly because the printed book is the most important outcome for our
>> project, and the on-line version follows on from that.
>>
>
> I talked to Simon who said they were planning some work on a wiki
> front end for it which could spits out pdf's straight to the POD
> service.
>
>
>> Importantly (I think) we are not just thinking about how to get a  
>> book
>> printed (which is easy), but how to get the content of the book
>> distributed in such a fashion that it is easy to print locally in the
>> developing world. Just a reminder that printing doesn't solve the
>> distribution problem. Having a 1000 * 1 kg lumps of paper in a  
>> warehouse
>> in the US doesn't do anything for people in the developing world. The
>> distribution is the difficult challenge, on-line and off-line.
>>
>
> The system they were using could handle printing in different
> localities and also fulfillment using paypal for a fee. There was
> apparently an option to just have the title listed in amazon and get
> them printed at point of sale so to speak.
>
> cheers
>
> ~/julian
>
>
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