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=== A Note on the design of this publication ===
=== A Note on the design of this publication ===
The design of this publication accommodates non-linear reading. Cross-references indicate to connections across chapters, themes, methods and timelines. 


The design of this book is part of an ongoing collective exploration into unusual, non-proprietary, open-source, free and libre publishing tools and workflows. Such tools come with their own quirks and ask us to re-think our relationship to design tools. We hope this publication contributes to a growing community of designers who consider it relevant to rethink their tool-ecologies. Building on the knowledge and practices of many designers and collectives that work with and contribute to open-source approaches to designing on and offline publications,<ref>Collectives that inspire us in our design experiments are Varia, Constant Association for Art and Media, Open Source Publishing, the practices and knowledge deriving from educational contexts such as the student-led interdepartmental initiative PUB at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam or XPUB—a master programme of Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute, the digital and hybrid publishing research groups of the Institute of Network Cultures. Concretely, the technical infrastructure and workflow used to create this publication (wiki-to-pdf) is building on the code repositories of Martino Morandi (Constant Association for Art and Media) developed for the publication ‘Infrastructural Interactions’ edited by TITiPI (Helen V Pritchard, Femke Snelting) (gitlab.constantvzw.org/titipi/wiki-to-pdf), and Manetta Berends (Varia Collective) developed for the publication ''Volumetric Regimes'' edited by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting), published under the CC4r license (git.vvvvvvaria.org/mb/volumetric-regimes-book).</ref> Hackers & Designers’ publishing experiments intersect computer programming, art, and design, and involve the building of self-made, hacked, and reappropriated tools and technical infrastructures, which sometimes results in books, such as the one you are holding now.
The design of the H&D Bulletins is part of an ongoing collective exploration into unusual, non-proprietary, open-source, free and libre publishing tools and workflows. Such tools come with their own quirks and ask us to re-think our relationship to design tools. We hope these small publications contribute to a growing community of designers who consider it relevant to rethink their tool-ecologies. Building on the knowledge and practices of many designers and collectives that work with and contribute to open-source approaches to designing on and offline publications,<ref>Collectives that inspire us in our design experiments are Varia, Constant Association for Art and Media, Open Source Publishing, the practices and knowledge deriving from educational contexts such as the student-led interdepartmental initiative PUB at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam or XPUB—a master programme of Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute, the digital and hybrid publishing research groups of the Institute of Network Cultures. Concretely, the technical infrastructure and workflow used to create this publication (wiki-to-pdf) is building on the code repositories of Martino Morandi (Constant Association for Art and Media) developed for the publication ‘Infrastructural Interactions’ edited by TITiPI (Helen V Pritchard, Femke Snelting) (gitlab.constantvzw.org/titipi/wiki-to-pdf), and Manetta Berends (Varia Collective) developed for the publication ''Volumetric Regimes'' edited by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting), published under the CC4r license (git.vvvvvvaria.org/mb/volumetric-regimes-book).</ref> Hackers & Designers’ publishing experiments intersect computer programming, art, and design, and involve the building of self-made, hacked, and reappropriated tools and technical infrastructures, which sometimes results in books, such as the one you are holding now.


The digital version of this book was built simultaneously with the content’s population and preparation for its journey to the printer. While Wiki was being fed with the contributions by the authors, and while the Pdf was stretching/shrinking its borders to accommodate them, the HTML was experimenting with switches between the two reading experiences: of the contributions and the scripts as their active companions. Although the layout of the digital publication prioritizes the reading of contributions first, it aims to unite them with their scripts as much as possible.  
Following open-source principles, the tool ecosystem that evolved around the design of this publication is documented and published on the H&amp;D website<ref>hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Tools.</ref> and git repository <ref>github.com/hackersanddesigners.</ref> under the CC4r license,<ref>constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html.</ref> providing the possibility of continuation in other contexts, studying, critiquing, and repurposing.


Following open-source principles, the tool ecosystem that evolved around the design of this publication is documented and published on the H&amp;D website<ref>hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Tools.</ref> and git repository <ref>github.com/hackersanddesigners.</ref> under the CC4r license,<ref>constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html.</ref> providing the possibility of continuation in other contexts, studying, critiquing, and repurposing.
The design, production and dissemination of the H&D bulletins is part of an ongoing research into the ecology of small printing presses, more specifically in finding out how experimental, open source, DIY publishing tools (often made by repurposing web technologies) and the, at times, janky pdfs they produce, intersect with material realities of pre-press processes and different eco-conscious printing techniques.


The tools ecosystem includes: MediaWiki, Jinja templating, Pagedjs for the layout.
The tools ecosystem includes: MediaWiki, Jinja templating, Pagedjs for the layout.
Publishing the H&D bulletins is furthermore an attempt to research into the ecology of small printing presses, more specifically in finding out how experimental, open source, DIY publishing tools (often made by repurposing web technologies) and the, at times, janky pdfs they produce, intersect with material realities of pre-press processes and different eco-conscious printing techniques.


All typefaces used in this publication are available at ‘Badass Libre Fonts By Womxn’,<ref>design-research.be/by-womxn.</ref> a repository of open source and/or libre typefaces composed by Loraine Furter and Velvetyne Libre and Open Source Type Foundry.<ref>https://velvetyne.fr/</ref>
All typefaces used in this publication are available at ‘Badass Libre Fonts By Womxn’,<ref>design-research.be/by-womxn.</ref> a repository of open source and/or libre typefaces composed by Loraine Furter and Velvetyne Libre and Open Source Type Foundry.<ref>https://velvetyne.fr/</ref>


=== Accessibility note ===  
=== Accessibility note ===  

Revision as of 13:00, 12 July 2023

Colophon

Contributors:
Editor: Anja Groten, Sylvie van Wijk
Design: Hackers & Designers (Anja Groten, Heerko van der Kooij)
Typefaces:
Proofreading: Loes Bogers
Paper Inside:
Paper Cover:
Printing and Binding: Stencilzolder
Publisher: Hackers & Designers, www.hackersanddesigners.nl


With the kind support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie


A Note on the design of this publication

The design of the H&D Bulletins is part of an ongoing collective exploration into unusual, non-proprietary, open-source, free and libre publishing tools and workflows. Such tools come with their own quirks and ask us to re-think our relationship to design tools. We hope these small publications contribute to a growing community of designers who consider it relevant to rethink their tool-ecologies. Building on the knowledge and practices of many designers and collectives that work with and contribute to open-source approaches to designing on and offline publications,[1] Hackers & Designers’ publishing experiments intersect computer programming, art, and design, and involve the building of self-made, hacked, and reappropriated tools and technical infrastructures, which sometimes results in books, such as the one you are holding now.

Following open-source principles, the tool ecosystem that evolved around the design of this publication is documented and published on the H&D website[2] and git repository [3] under the CC4r license,[4] providing the possibility of continuation in other contexts, studying, critiquing, and repurposing.

The design, production and dissemination of the H&D bulletins is part of an ongoing research into the ecology of small printing presses, more specifically in finding out how experimental, open source, DIY publishing tools (often made by repurposing web technologies) and the, at times, janky pdfs they produce, intersect with material realities of pre-press processes and different eco-conscious printing techniques.

The tools ecosystem includes: MediaWiki, Jinja templating, Pagedjs for the layout.

Publishing the H&D bulletins is furthermore an attempt to research into the ecology of small printing presses, more specifically in finding out how experimental, open source, DIY publishing tools (often made by repurposing web technologies) and the, at times, janky pdfs they produce, intersect with material realities of pre-press processes and different eco-conscious printing techniques.

All typefaces used in this publication are available at ‘Badass Libre Fonts By Womxn’,[5] a repository of open source and/or libre typefaces composed by Loraine Furter and Velvetyne Libre and Open Source Type Foundry.[6]

Accessibility note

Hopepunk also looks towards “disability justice” for sustainable systems of care. Many disabled lives are intertwined with the use of technology. For this bulletin we thought about reading aids for dyslexic folks. We used syllable-based highlighting to create a dyslexia-friendly reading experience. This method provides visual cues that break down words into manageable syllables, assisting individuals with dyslexia in word recognition and segmentation. By this doing this we hope to improve accessibility, enhance the reading experience, and promote better comprehension for readers with dyslexia. To strike a balance between accuracy and efficiency, we implemented a heuristic method for syllable detection. The algorithm approximates the position of syllable boundaries by leveraging patterns of vowels and consonants. While it may not be perfect, we hope that this approach is effective enough of our use case.


License

COLLECTIVE CONDITIONS FOR RE-USE (CC4r)
Hackers & Designers, 2022.
Copyleft with a difference: This is a collective work, you are invited to copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the CC4r gitlab.constantvzw.org/unbound/cc4r.
REMINDER TO CURRENT AND FUTURE AUTHORS:
The authored work released under the CC4r was never yours to begin with. The CC4r considers authorship to be part of a collective cultural effort and rejects authorship as ownership derived from individual genius. This means to recognize that it is situated in social and historical conditions and that there may be reasons to refrain from release and re-use.
Copyleft Attitude with a difference, 24 November 2022.
The CC4r was developed for the Constant work session Unbound libraries (spring 2020) and followed from discussions during and contributions to the study day Authors of the future (Fall 2019). It is based on the Free Art License http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ and inspired by other licensing projects such as The (Cooperative) Non-Violent Public License https://thufie.lain.haus/NPL.html and the Decolonial Media license https://freeculture.org/About/license.

  1. ↑ Collectives that inspire us in our design experiments are Varia, Constant Association for Art and Media, Open Source Publishing, the practices and knowledge deriving from educational contexts such as the student-led interdepartmental initiative PUB at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam or XPUB—a master programme of Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute, the digital and hybrid publishing research groups of the Institute of Network Cultures. Concretely, the technical infrastructure and workflow used to create this publication (wiki-to-pdf) is building on the code repositories of Martino Morandi (Constant Association for Art and Media) developed for the publication ‘Infrastructural Interactions’ edited by TITiPI (Helen V Pritchard, Femke Snelting) (gitlab.constantvzw.org/titipi/wiki-to-pdf), and Manetta Berends (Varia Collective) developed for the publication Volumetric Regimes edited by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting), published under the CC4r license (git.vvvvvvaria.org/mb/volumetric-regimes-book).
  2. ↑ hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Tools.
  3. ↑ github.com/hackersanddesigners.
  4. ↑ constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html.
  5. ↑ design-research.be/by-womxn.
  6. ↑ https://velvetyne.fr/
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