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* Cover and content fonts Space Notorious Rounded, Space Grotesk, and OfficeCodePro Regular
* Cover and content fonts Space Notorious Rounded, Space Grotesk, and OfficeCodePro Regular
* Fonts used in this book are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 <ref> https://scripts.sil.org/OFL</ref> and General Public License<ref>https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html</ref>
* Fonts used in this book are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 <ref> https://scripts.sil.org/OFL</ref> and General Public License<ref>https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html</ref>
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For our communication and working tools we've used:
For our communication and working tools we've used:


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Infrastructure Colophon

Our book is derived from the larger project ServPub which uses wiki-to-print – a collective publishing environment based on MediaWiki software, Paged Media CSS techniques and the JavaScript library Paged.js – and which renders a preview of the PDF in the browser.[1] It builds on the work of others and would not have been possible without the help of Creative Crowds,[2] who themselves acknowledge the longer history, which includes: the Diversions publications by Constant and OSP;[3] the book Volumetric Regimes by Possible Bodies and Manetta Berends;[4] TITiPI's wiki-to-pdf environments developed by Martino Morandi;[5] and Hackers and Designers' version of wiki2print that was produced for the book Making Matters.[6] As such, our work is a continuation of a network of instances and interconnected practices that are documented and shareable.[7]

Similarly, the server infrastructure includes: the free and open-source software Tinc,[8] VPN server and static IP provided by Systerserver, Raspberry Pi mobile servers set up and cared by In-grid, and domain registration and DNS management via the Netherlands-based TuxIC.[9] The web security was configured by Mara Karagianni.[10]

In addition to using a version of Creative Crowds' wiki-to-print (wiki4print), for the design process we also followed FLOSS design principles and workflows, including choice of fonts, and design values, ethics and considerations, licensing, questions of openness, federation, and other ways of organising.

The book is designed by

  • Johanna de Verdier (In-Grid) – book design
  • Sunni Liao (In-Grid) – book layout
  • Rebecca Aston (In-Grid) – book layout
  • Mara Karagianni (Systerserver) – hand-drawn cover's illustration
  • Artemis Gryllaki (Systerserver) – the cover design

We used:

  • Excalidraw for moodboards/brainstorming [11]
  • Inkscape for the layout of the cover [12]
  • Open-source fonts from Open Foundry[13] and Use & Modify[14]
  • Cover and content fonts Space Notorious Rounded, Space Grotesk, and OfficeCodePro Regular
  • Fonts used in this book are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 [15] and General Public License[16]

For our communication and working tools we've used:

  • monthly group meeting and discussion: jitsi, hosted by Greenhost;[17]
  • Etherpads hosted by Riseup[18] and the Critical Technical Practice (CTP) server at Aarhus University;[19]
  • mailing list provided by Systerserver;
  • poll system for meeting times by AnarchaServer[20] and Framasoft;[21]
  • Git repository by Systerserver

This infrastructure colophon is adapted from the publication entitled Infrastructural Interactions: Survival, Resistance and Radical Care (2022) edited by Helen V Pritchard and Femke Snelting.[22]


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  1. ↑ https://www.mediawiki.org + https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/ + https://pagedjs.org
  2. ↑ https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki/APRJA_Content_Form_-_Wiki-to-print
  3. ↑ https://diversions.constantvzw.org + https://constantvzw.org & https://osp.kitchen
  4. ↑ http://data-browser.net/db08.html + https://volumetricregimes.xyz + https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org + https://manettaberends.nl
  5. ↑ http://titipi.org + https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki-to-pdf
  6. ↑ https://hackersanddesigners.nl + https://github.com/hackersanddesigners/wiki2print + https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Publishing/p/Making_Matters._A_Vocabulary_of_Collective_Arts
  7. ↑ https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/CC/wiki-to-print
  8. ↑ https://tinc-vpn.org/download/
  9. ↑ http://tuxic.nl/
  10. ↑ After several months into the project, the wiki was becoming slower and slower. With some closer monitoring, the culprit was AI bots crawling the wiki's content, hitting the server every second. The remedy was to block a list of those with robots.txt under the directory where wiki is installed on the raspberry pi. Also by implementing a 444 code status (connection close) return for those bots in the NGINX configuration on Jean (the VPN server which forwards all connections to the wiki). The bots which are blocked so far include OpenAI/ChatGPT training crawler, ChatGPT-User for browsing/search, OAI-SearchBot, SearchGPT, Amazonbot, Anthropic-AI, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Cohere-AI and Bytespider (TikTok AI). Since then, the site loads very fast, and there has been a big drop in CPU usage—from 500% to 5%.
  11. ↑ https://excalidraw.com/
  12. ↑ https://inkscape.org/
  13. ↑ https://open-foundry.com/
  14. ↑ https://usemodify.com/
  15. ↑ https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
  16. ↑ https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
  17. ↑ https://meet.greenhost.net/
  18. ↑ https://pad.riseup.net/
  19. ↑ https://ctp.cc.au.dk/
  20. ↑ https://transitional.anarchaserver.org/date/
  21. ↑ https://framadate.org/
  22. ↑ http://titipi.org/pub/Infrastructural_Interactions.pdf
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