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'''Hitchhiking Zine''' is an idea by [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac Stewart]]
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The '''Hitchhiking Zine''' is an idea [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]] 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==
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== Goal ==
* Create a DIY travel 'zine guide, Compact
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* Create a usable "travel guide" for hitchhikers with as much information and little bloat as possible.
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* Use all open source content, and create it with open source software.
  
==Format==
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== What gets included? ==
In order to give the zine a personal feel, I think that all articles and "descriptive" parts should be written individually. Of course hitching 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 zine. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 21:48, 29 November 2006 (CET)
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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.
  
==What gets included?==
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Add <nowiki>{{Hitchhiking Zine nomination}}</nowiki> to the top of nominated pages. View recent changes to included pages [http://hitchwiki.org/Category:Zine_nomination?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3AZine_nomination here].
We need to decide the scope of the zine first. Global, continental, or just a select few countries? After we have that decided we can decide what gets included within that scope. Should we follow the norm and inlcude major cities, or should we do something completely odd and ''exclude'' every capital? 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.
 
  
==Who wants to help==
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[[File:Hitchzine countries.png|thumb|350px|right|Countries currently included or otherwise.]]
* [[Zac]]
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=== City nominations ===
* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]
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* '''[[Austria]]:''' [[Vienna]], [[Salzburg]] [[File:50%.png]]
* [[amylin]]
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* '''[[Belgium]]:''' [[Brussels]], [[Antwerpen|Antwerp]], [[Gent]] [[File:25%.png]]
* [[User:Salman|Salman]]
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* '''[[Czech Republic]]:''' [[Prague]], [[Brno]] [[File:25%.png]]
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* '''[[France]]:''' [[Paris]], [[Lyon]], [[Montpellier]], [[Calais]] [[File:25%.png]]
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* '''[[Germany]]:''' [[Berlin]], [[Cologne]] [[Munich]], [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Hamburg]], [[Ruhr Area]], [[File:25%.png]]
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* '''[[Ireland]]:'''
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* '''[[Italy]]:''' [[Rome]], [[Firenze]]
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* '''[[Luxembourg]]:'''
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* '''[[Netherlands]]:''' [[Amsterdam]], [[Rotterdam]], [[Maastricht]] [[File:25%.png]]
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* '''[[Portugal]]:''' [[Lisbon]]
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* '''[[Slovenia]]:''' [[Ljubljana]], [[Maribor]] [[File:25%.png]]
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* '''[[Spain]]:''' [[Barcelona]], [[Granada]] [[File:25%.png]]
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* '''[[Switzerland]]:'''
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* '''[[United Kingdom]]:''' [[London]], [[Dover]], [[Leeds]], [[Sheffield]] [[File:25%.png]]
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The little images to the right of the lists indicate how much progress Zac has made compiling that section.
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:[[File:25%.png]] Information formatted from the Hitchwiki into [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] files (links, map refs, etc. removed)
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:[[File:50%.png]] Additional information researched and added
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:[[File:75%.png]] Images, maps, tables, etc added. Print layout begun
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:[[File:100%.png]] Finished and ready for print
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=== Other info ===
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Aside from information on various localities, what else should be put into the zine?
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** Short phrase pages
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* Minimal unit and currency conversions
  
==Publishing==
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== Publishing ==
[[Zac]] is thinking 50 sheets, center folded. Standard photocopy zine format. "I would want to do it for non-profit of course. Hitchhikers don't have money for guides! If you're interested, 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 zines. Just let me know."
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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.
Another option is [http://lulu.com Lulu].
 
  
[[user:Salman|Salman]] recommends offering up a free PDF format online with the possibility to donate (using PayPal, for example). A mail version could be sent for $2, but in the spirit of hitchhiking it's nice to have the free option. See our [http://guides.digihitch.com/phrases hitchhiking phrasebooks] and [[:digi:dl-roadguide|US hitchhiking laws road guide]] on digihitch.com as an example. (Sorry, must be logged into digihitch to download road laws for now, changing soon.)
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=== Free, downloadable and printable PDF file ===
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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.
  
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=== Book ===
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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.
  
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== Who wants to help ==
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* [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]
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* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]
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* [[User:amylin|amylin]]
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* [[User:Salman|Salman]]
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* [[User:platschi|platschi]]
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* [[User:xo|xo]]
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* [[User:Quarim|Quarim]]
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* [[User:Brackers|Brackers]]
  
[[Category:General info]]
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[[Category:Media]]
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[[Category:Hitchhiking Zine]]

Latest revision as of 23:05, 21 September 2014

The Hitchhiking Zine is an idea Zac 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 usable "travel guide" for hitchhikers with as much information and little bloat as possible.
  • Use all open source content, and create it with open source software.

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 {{Hitchhiking Zine nomination}} to the top of nominated pages. View recent changes to included pages here.

Countries currently included or otherwise.

City nominations

The little images to the right of the lists indicate how much progress Zac has made compiling that section.

25%.png Information formatted from the Hitchwiki into OpenOffice files (links, map refs, etc. removed)
50%.png Additional information researched and added
75%.png Images, maps, tables, etc added. Print layout begun
100%.png Finished and ready for print

Other info

Aside from information on various localities, what else should be put into the zine?

    • Short phrase pages
  • Minimal unit and currency conversions

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 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, 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