<incom> Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-Box Launched

[Soenke Zehle]

From: and <and at tacticaltech.org>

The Tactical Technology Collective has launched the next edition in
it's NGO-in-a-box series, the Open Publishing Box. The Open
Publishing edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of free and open
source software, tutorials and guides for producing, publishing and
distributing content. The edition, produced by Tactical Tech in
collaboration with iCommons, is aimed at small to medium sized non-
profits, independent media organisations, free culture creators and
grassroots journalists with a particular emphasis on those in
developing and transition countries.

http://openpublishing.ngoinabox.org

The contents of the toolkit were selected by an editorial team made
up of leading international practitioners working in DIY publishing,
free culture, technology for social justice and the development and
deployment of free and open source software.

The Open Publishing Box covers the following areas:

     * Desktop publishing
     * Graphic design, fonts and image manipulation
     * Web publishing including wikis, content management systems and
blogging
     * Citizen journalism and participatory media
     * Open content licensing and the commons

The Open Publishing Box is distributed quite literally as a box-set
of three CDs. The first CD is the compilation put together by the
edition editorial team, the second is the GNU/Linux distribution
Ubuntu and the third is the OpenCD, a collection of basic FOSS
programmes for Windows.

The primary aims of the Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box are to:

     * Provide a selection of tools and materials for NGOs, activists
and journalists for the purposes of open publishing, open content
licensing and participatory media making.
     * Create a toolkit that brings together a cross-section of
approaches to the broad area of publishing for the non-profit sector.
     * Encourage and promote the growth and use of free and open
source tools for these activities; assisting with choice, testing,
and access barriers.
     * Promote the ethics and potential of free culture and the
development of the commons.

This edition goes hand-in-hand with the Audio/Video Edition of NGO-in-
a-box <http://audiovideo.ngoinabox.org>, creating a comprehensive
peer reviewed, tried and tested free and open source multimedia
toolkit for non-profits, activists, and grassroots journalists.

The edition is available online at <http://openpublishing.ngoinabox.org> 
and most importantly as a physical box  set of CDs. If you are 
interested in receiving a copy please email us  at 
openpublishing-edition at ngoinabox.org