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
• proofreading: Riviera
• printing & binding + budget: Wang, zuzu
• conceptual thinking & editorial: Bernadette, Thijs, Lorenzo, senka, Michel, Victor
• licensing: Maria
• 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: [will be formed at next meeting (#session #4), depending on needs]

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

• 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 (in the making):

• we looked at quite a lot of different publications/books/magazines/web publications
• we did a couple of temperature checks, to see what the main direction of the publication could be

session #4

Monday 12 May

• check in with groups
• form website group?

session #5

Monday 26 May

• check in with groups

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