XPUB publication 2025

📢 collective publication making

part of XPUB2 trimester 3

notes

We use this pad for notes during publication meetings: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-2023-2025

A summary of the notes will be added to this wiki page.

publication groups

• design: anita, senka, Victor, Mania
  • https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-design-group_2025
  • Graduation planning 2025 design (parallel process with the general gradshow design)
• proofreading: Riviera
• printing & binding: Wang, zuzu, Alessia https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-binding-group_2025
• budget: riviera
• conceptual thinking & editorial: Bernadette, Thijs, Lorenzo, senka, Michel, Victor
  • Pad for conceptual & editorial work
  • XPUB publication 2023-2025 Concept&Editorial
• licensing: Maria https://pad.xpub.nl/p/licensing
• meeting organisation: Manetta, unless someone wants to practice this and wants to take over :)
• 🔔the bucket police/debt collectors/legal advice: Lorenzo (All cops are buckets)
• website group: Bernadette & Rosa (also do gradshow website - could be combined)

session #1

Monday 7 April

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-2023-2025

What would you like to read about someone else's research?

[name]: <what you would like to read>

What would you like to read about the Special Issues you were involved in?

[special issue]: 

What would you like to publish from your own research?

[name]: 

What publication format/medium would fit for this?

When producing a publication, how can the work be divided into different roles/groups?

Which role would you like to pick up?

session #2 (optional)

Tuesday 8 April

• exploring publication formats/workflows hands-on

Graph made during this session

• pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/publishing-workflows-exploration
• code: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/workflows.dot + https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/refresh.sh
• output: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/ (pdf, svg, png)

To generate a new graph:

$ ssh USERNAME@chopchop
$ cd /var/www/html/publishing-workflows-exploration/
$ sh refresh.sh

summary

• notes of the conversation can be found on this pad:

session #3

Monday 14 April

Agenda:

• look at publications that we all brought
• present workflow graph (see above)
• read conversation notes all together (see above)
• check in with groups (if there has been progress already?)
• split into groups
• tasks for next meeting

Summary:

• we looked at quite a lot of different publications/books/magazines/web publications (notes are on the pad) to get a feeling of different (mainly printed) publications, binding types, tone, ... It was very broad still
• we did a couple of temperature checks, to see what the main direction of the publication could be (votes are on the pad)
• we made a Zulip stream (you should be added to it) and @usergroups that can be used to communicate between groups
• we formed publication groups (production groups for the publication), they can be found at the top of the wiki page (this one)! These groups are not static, you can move or join a group at any time. Just add yourself to the list on the wiki page, and ping me (Manetta) to adjust the usergroups on Zulip
• each of the publication groups had an initial 30 min meeting
• during next meeting (in a month) all the groups are asked to come with proposals that need a full group discussion
• in the meantime, we will use Zulip to communicate between groups

session #4

Monday 12 May

Agenda:

• check in with groups

Notes of today's session can be found at line 235 of the publication pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-2023-2025

The following decisions were made:

• interviews will be used to add a conversational tone to the publication (next to a graduation project section for everyone)
• the interviews will be done in one long chain (see below)
  • the decision for this and format of the chain will be introduced clearly in the publication
• the editorial + design group will prepare an interview instruction message, and send this out this week (16 May latest)
• interviews take place next week (19-25 May)
• the interviews will contain one shared question: "What does floating mean to you? Are you floating?"
  • it is still open if the question is to be used as an opening question of the interview, or can appear anywhere in the interview (editorial/design group will decide on this??)
• the website group will try to arrange overlap between the publication materials and website materials as much as possible, and jump in to set up a web-to-print workflow
• the publication will be glue-bound

the continuous chain

Alessia
    language
Maria
    networks
Riviera
    performance
Michel
    queerness
Senka
    non-linearity
Thijs
    video games
Bernadette
    economics
Victor
    obsolete media
Rosa
    sound
Wang
    interaction
Anita
    everyday
Mania
    nearby
Zuzu
    city
Lorenzo
    virtual

session #5

Monday 26 May

submit interviews before today

on the agenda for today:

• license(s)
• printing/binding
• website/workflow
• design group check in
• anything else??

session #6

Tuesday 10 June

• check in with groups

session #7 (if needed)

Monday 23 June

• check in with groups

gradshow

Thursday 3 - Sunday 6 July

• launch publication