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The '''Hitchhiking Zine''' is an idea by [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac Stewart]]dreamed up while discussing with a fellow traveler about how the travel guides of today are really just tourist guides. He joked that someone should write a travel guide that reviews the best parks to sleep in, the tastiest dumpsters to eat out of and the best places to hitch from. The joke's over and the Hitchwiki is that collective "someone".

==Goal==* Create a DIY usable "travel 'zine guide" for hitchhikers with as much information and little bloat as possible.* Use all open source content, Compactand create it with open source software.

==Who wants What gets included? ==This first edition of the zine is going to be mostly limited to Western Europe, although, there have been some nominations for a few Central European countries. Please try to only nominate pages with a good bit of information. Add <nowiki>{{Hitchhiking Zine nomination}}</nowiki> to the top of nominated pages. View recent changes to helpincluded pages [http://hitchwiki.org/Category:Zine_nomination?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3AZine_nomination here]. [[File:Hitchzine countries.png|thumb|350px|right|Countries currently included or otherwise.]]=== City nominations ===* '''[[ZacAustria]]:''' [[Vienna]], [[Salzburg]] [[File:50%.png]]* '''[[UserBelgium]]:Guaka''' [[Brussels]], [[Antwerpen|GuakaAntwerp]], [[Gent]] [[File:25%.png]]* '''[[Czech Republic]]:''' [[Prague]], [[Brno]] [[File:25%.png]]* '''[[France]]:''' [[Paris]], [[Lyon]], [[Montpellier]], [[Calais]] [[File:25%.png]]* '''[[Germany]]:''' [[Berlin]], [[Cologne]] [[Munich]], [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Hamburg]], [[Ruhr Area]], [[File:25%.png]]* '''[[amylinIreland]]:'''* '''[[UserItaly]]:Salman|Salman''' [[Rome]], [[Firenze]]* '''[[Luxembourg]]:'''* '''[[Netherlands]]:''' [[Amsterdam]], [[Rotterdam]], [[Maastricht]] [[File:25%.png]]* '''[[Portugal]]:''' [[Lisbon]]* '''[[Slovenia]]:''' [[Ljubljana]], [[Maribor]] [[File:25%.png]]* '''[[Spain]]:''' [[Barcelona]], [[Granada]] [[File:25%.png]]* '''[[Switzerland]]:'''* '''[[United Kingdom]]:''' [[London]], [[Dover]], [[Leeds]], [[Sheffield]] [[File:25%.png]]

==Format==In order The little images to give the zine a personal feel, I think right of the lists indicate how much progress Zac has made compiling that all articles and "descriptive" parts should be written individuallysection.:[[File:25%. Of course hitching information, places to sleep and eat, etc should come straight png]] Information formatted from the WikiHitchwiki into [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] files (links, but if someone has something cool to say about a particular city or whatevermap refs, they should be allowed to say it without having it "wikified" and edited to uniformityetc. That would also give us a good opportunity to give individual writers some credit so that it adds more personality to the zineremoved):[[File:50%. png]] Additional information researched and added:[[UserFile:Zac Stewart|Zac75%.png]]<small>^{Images, maps, tables, etc added. Print layout begun:[[User talkFile:Zac Stewart|talk100%.png]]}</small> 21:48, 29 November 2006 (CET)Finished and ready for print

==What gets included?= Other info ===We need to decide the scope of the zine first. Global, continentalAside from information on various localities, or just a select few countries? After we have that decided we can decide what gets included within that scope. Should we follow else should be put into the norm and inlcude major cities, or should we do something completely odd and ''exclude'' every capitalzine? If we have our scope decided we can work out a system of nominations and then vote to slim it down to 3-5 cities per country or something.

==Name==*Hithiking Zine:<small>Our generic working-title</small>* Short phrase pages*Super Top Secret Hitchhiking Zine:<small>Improved by super top secret status!</small>Minimal unit and currency conversions

==Publishing==[[Zac]] is thinking 50 sheets, center folded. Standard photocopy The actual length of this "zine format. "I would want to do might put it for non-profit of courseat odds with actually being printed as a zine at all. Hitchhikers don't have money for guides! If The most you're interestedcan really hope to staple together is about 50 pages, I have a little experience with zine pressing and we could mail them out for like $2 a peice or something to help fund this site further and the pressing of the zineswill likely exceed that. Just let me know."Another option Zac is [http://lulucurrently looking into various methods of production to deal with this.com Lulu]We will probably end up publishing it in a variety of formats.

[[user:Salman|Salman]] recommends offering up a free === Free, downloadable and printable PDF format online file ===Zac has been experimenting with the possibility to donate (using PayPal, for example). A mail version could be sent for $2, but some perl scripting in the spirit of hitchhiking it's nice to have the free option. See our combination with [http://guideswww.tardis.ed.digihitchac.comuk/~ajcd/psutils/phrases hitchhiking phrasebooksindex.html PSUtils] and [[:digi:dl-roadguide|US hitchhiking laws road guide]] on digihitch.com as an example. (Sorry, must 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 logged into digihitch available for the user to download road laws for now, changing soonand print in PDF format.)

==Nominations= Book ===Please nominate cities you think should 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 included. Rememberwilling to pay $5 or so for a book, we doing Western and Southern [[Europehttp://www.lulu.com/ Lulu]] onlymay be used at first to test the water. We should include about three cities per countryIf the project does indeed become book sized, but nominate as many as you like 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'll discuss them laterwanted to use this as a project to raise money to cover the hosting of Hitchwiki.

== Who wants to help ==*'''[[Austria]]User:'''*'''[[BelgiumZac Stewart|Zac]]:'''*'''[[France]]User:''' [[Paris]], [[LyonGuaka|Guaka]]*'''[[Germany]]User:'''*'''[[Greeceamylin|amylin]]'''*'''[[IrelandUser:Salman|Salman]]:'''*'''[[Italy]]User:'''*'''[[Luxembourgplatschi|platschi]]:'''*'''[[Netherlands]]User:'''*'''[[Portugalxo|xo]]:'''*'''[[Spain]]User:''' [[BarcelonaQuarim|Quarim]]*'''[[Switzerland]]User:'''*'''[[United Kingdom]]:''' [[LondonBrackers|Brackers]]

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