Hitchhiking Zine
Hitchhiking Zine is an idea by Zac
Contents
Goal
- Create a usable "travel guide" for hitchhikers with as much information and little bloat as possible.
What gets included?
This first edition of the zine is going to be mostly limited to Western Europe, although, though there have been some nominations for a few Central European countries. Please try to only nominate pages with a good bit of information.
Nominations
- Austria: Vienna, Salzburg
- Belgium: Antwerp, Gent
- France: Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, Calais
- Germany: Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Ruhr Area
- Greece
- Ireland:
- Italy:
- Luxembourg:
- Netherlands: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Maastricht
- Portugal: Lisbon
- Slovenia: Ljubljana, Maribor
- 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.
- Information formatted from the Hitchwiki into OpenOffice files
Additional information researched and added
Images, maps, tables, etc added. Print layout begun
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 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.
