Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/PrintingLab
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- Contact: [adam at flossmanuals dot net]
- Team: Adam, Enric, Patrick
- Hosts: FLOSS manuals
- Proposed 'space' or theme: Local learning incubator
- Status: Development
Summary
Dynamic space for producing books using a number of strategies. In particular we will investigate:
- book sprints
- translation sprints
- book binding
- chapbook
- micro-publishing
- Booki
- the Book Mobile
What do you want to achieve? (goal)
- Discuss Book Sprint methodologies applied to textbook creation
- Show how easy it is to make books (real, beautiful looking books)
- Illustrate book creation and book production processes can be a dynamic and interesting tool for teaching and learning in the open web.
- Gather people interested in learning more about the open web and P2P knowledge production methodologies.
- Exhibit and Demonstrate the Book Mobile
Who should come? How many? For how long? (audience)
- Teachers and book lovers
- Publishers
- Designers and developers
- People interested in book printing
What will they do when they get there? (activities)
- Make books
- Propose or join a writing, translating or printing process
- Discuss variations and educational scenarios where quick printing could be useful
What will you / they have at the end? (outputs)
- Books in Spanish and English (but also Catalan if there are enough participants)
- Collections of chapbooks related to other activities, discussions or posts from the festival
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