Refugee Phrasebook

From Publication Station

Future developments

http://stuff2233.club:9001/p/RPB-hackthon-Feb2016

Broad Aims

  • define deliverables (goals) for hackthon
  • assemble a core team
  • plan a strategy


Deliverables (brainstrom)

  • help guide to NL (possible BE,LX)
    • the guide would answer question such as where to ask for different help, how the asylum process works here, what dangers to look out for, etc
    • it would help to know the laws and gaining an understanding of their rights
    • translated in the version languages
  • Translation to Tigrinya (Eritrean)
    • ?how important is it? Eritreans tend to have a good knowledge of English, since it is one of the country's languages?)
  • Automate the layout workflow, so that the creation of new versions can be made easier.
    • (research on current Web-to-print methods in RPB; Weasyprint possibilities)

Collaborators

  • legal activists
  • designers
  • refugees
  • translators




  • tweaking layout
  • producing the layout from web-to-print
  • need to produce the pdf

Format works. It can be slight improved


What can we make this into something that can join and learn from?


RPB as an example for publishing.

To do

  • Eritrean

sprint

  • content
    • proofread Tigrinya. Add necessary sentences short
  • design
    • integrating 1 + language
    • typography
    • layout
  • printing
    • folding, stapling, folding

What elements can used to learn

  • wikis as publishing platforms - ( quarter 8 of Graphic Design )
  • web-to-print (weasy print)
  • Fonts - unicode table

@Gabrielle: try to see if it is possible the book sprint. Proof-readers: Urdu, Dari, Tigrinya.

@Andre: check current state of project. Web-to-print possibility.