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'''Hitchhiking Zine''' is an idea by [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac Stewart]]
==Goal==
* Create a DIY usable "travel 'zine guide, Compact ==Who wants to help==* [[Zac]]* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]* [[amylin]]* [[User:Salman|Salman]] ==Format==In order to give the zine a personal feel, I think that all articles and "descriptive" parts should be written individually. Of course hitching for hitchhikers with as much information, places to sleep and eat, etc should come straight from the Wiki, but if someone has something cool to say about a particular city or whatever, they should be allowed to say it without having it "wikified" and edited to uniformity. That would also give us a good opportunity to give individual writers some credit so that it adds more personality to the zinelittle bloat as possible. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 21:48, 29 November 2006 (CET)
==What gets included?==
===Nominations===
*'''[[Austria]]:''' [[Vienna]], [[Salzburg]]
*'''[[Belgium]]:''' [[Antwerp]], [[Gent]]
*'''[[Spain]]:''' [[Barcelona]], [[Madrid]]
*'''[[Switzerland]]:'''
*'''[[United Kingdom]]:''' [[London]], [[Dover]], [[Leeds]]. The little images to the right of the lists indicate how much progress Zac has made compiling that section.:[[image:25%.png]] Information formatted from the Hitchwiki into OpenOffice files:[[image:50%.png]] Additional information researched and added:[[image:75%.png]] Images, maps, tables, etc added. Print layout begun:[[image:100%.png]] Finished and ready for print ==Publishing==The actual length of this "zine" might put it at odds with actually being printed as a zine at all. The most you can really hope to staple together is about 50 pages, and this will likely exceed that. Zac is currently looking into various methods of production to deal with this. We will probably end up publishing it in a variety of formats. ===Free, downloadable and printable PDF file===Zac has been experimenting with some perl scripting in combination with [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html PSUtils] and has come up with a way that a user could select various "chapters" and then the script would process the chapters into printer's spreads and be available for the user to download and print in PDF format. ===Book===Printing the zine as a book is an idea that Zac fancies very much. He would prefer to find a cheap book printer to do the job, but since there's no way of telling if anyone would be willing to pay $5 or so for a book, [http://www.lulu.com/ Lulu] may be used at first to test the water. If the project does indeed become book sized, Zac may print a few with Lulu to see how it goes. They could be sold at a price to cover just printing and shipping, or slightly more if we wanted to use this as a project to raise money to cover the hosting of Hitchwiki. ==Who wants to help==* [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]* [[User:amylin|amylin]]* [[User:Salman|Salman]]
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