 Well this is funny. My name is Juliana Castro. I originate from Colombia but I live in the US. I'm going to be referring to some copyright stuff that is mainly kind of within the US copyright system. I do speak Spanish though so some people have asked if I'm from here, I'm not. I'm rotating some books, some of them do have text, some others are not ready but they will be and I just print some mock-ups for an exhibition that I had in Austin, Texas a couple weeks ago. I arrived to like Libre and open source stuff through publishing. I've worked mainly for museums and I was trying to push museums to put their collections, especially their public domain content online or to put their like educational kind of institutionally created content for free on their Creative Commons licenses. So working for museums and I kind of arrived to sort of like accessibility advocacy and then I arrived to what we all do. So my background is in graphic design but I have a big background of very like commercial software and I'm using like I'm using a lot of creative software that is not open source so I'm very open to kind of joining from all the things that happen during LGM because I like I've played with a couple stuff I'm pretty lazy so I'm excited to see more stuff. So that's kind of a little bit about what I do. This is funny I'm gonna move this so that I don't okay that's it. I recently created Sita which is the publisher of the books you're seeing and of some digital books that we're gonna see in a little second but before that I kind of need to give a context on why is it that I end up doing feminist books and why is it that I do think it's it's important. First of all the copyright has been pushed especially in the US especially since the 20s since Disney decided to do what Disney decided to do so no one can do it to Disney what Disney did to everybody and that kind of had some consequences on like well this is this is kind of a boring timeline but pretty much since the 1910s and 1920s the time of the creative creative stuff that has been put online or whatever has been extended and extended and extended and in particular in the US there is one example and is what I was trying to publish books. I wanted to publish Virginia Woolf's Room for One Zone that is in public domain anywhere except in the US because of how the copyright system works so while I'm basing the US I cannot publish it but I could anywhere else and that kind of like as you may know and kind of like with all the political background that open source entails it has a lot of economic interest and ownership problems that end up harming the openness and the creativity of other people and I kind of thinking about public domain staff and accessibility to staff and free speech I concluded that well writing was a pretty cool truth for that and decided to kind of stand between the three things I really care about in my practice as a designer and as well literature in general on art diversity and accessibility so I went and found some sad data that would like make easier to make a project that people be interested in especially in academia if I don't have any context like I really want to do feminist books but I have to explain why and good but I think that's very very easy there are just like very I have a lot of data because my master thesis isn't it but I'm just gonna touch just the surface of how problematic this is I don't know if you're at all familiar with Goodreads it's kind of like Goodreads exactly as it says is it place in which people say this is good to read this is bad to read and it's kind of a social media for readers and they do have sort of archive of public domain content mostly reviewing not like an actual archive of the content and within the 50 top books there are only five female authors and that is for many reasons included that well the things that are already on the public domain are before women were actually joining the writing circles and I'm gonna talk a little bit about that in a second but it also happens to be a problem within open access for for women only five point percent of the contributors of jip-hop are women that means kind of if we all were to be jip-hop contributors all in this room there will be probably two women in this whole room that is like pretty low so I decided to do something I said to pay literature that is on the public domain that is a lot of literature but in particular feminist literature that is or like before they were called themselves feminists they were just saying we are kind of equal like we are maybe less strong physically but we can think too or women are pushed to write about silly stuff and that's not okay and I just kind of collected all those texts and I wrote two scholars from the US mainly that write about these authors and I asked them to join and I asked them to write a creative commons based introduction for these books and I did the same with designers and I made books I made well so far there are five six two of which three two of which are printed three of which are online and the model of Sita and Sita we can talk a little bit about that later but Sita for those who don't speak Spanish when translated to English means the number of things so Sita is both appointment like you have an appointment with your doctor but you can also have a Sita with a romantic person so it's also a date and it's also a quotation like if you will quote from a book more kind of cute are the fact that when you put Sita to the end of a word for example Cerveza you make it tiny so Sita is the suffix may feminine nouns be tinier like Cerveza like mujer and so on and so what I did kind of with this was to situate existing public domain early feminist literature and we can discuss later about the actual content have a lot of things to say about that but we can talk about later creative commons scholarship research scholarship and design that is existing living authors and living designers that are invited to participate and that say yes at no cost and I just have zero money to make Sita and everybody that I have invited Harvard graduates the designers from all over the world have said yes like no one told me like this sucks why are you doing this and not paying me like no one and then I took some open source code from the internet premise of people that have said like just use this for whatever funds some from open foundry some from Google funds and images that sometimes accompanies texts in the in the past or icons or like all sorts of stuff that are open source and I built Sita so that's what's the video Sita is a feminist open source digital library that highlights publishes and promotes works by female authors you provide free access to short books and essays which can be read online as a web page using an interactive online reader in book mode or printed and bound as a booklet using easy to follow instructions the publishing industry consists of many interlinking elements including distributors publishing houses agents and authors the copyright of a books content is usually held by the author while the copyright of the edition is held by the publisher when copyright expires books enter the public domain which is where plenty of classic literature can be found like Jane Austen Shakespeare or Cervantes however these books are almost never available in an open access printed format and publishers and distributors tend to keep most of the revenue Sita's books use Creative Commons licenses as a way of giving free access to the content and expanding the reach of these books some of these writers adopted masculine pseudonyms or used their initials rather than their first names in order to be taken seriously in a male dominated field some tackled progressive topics that others found shocking or even immoral many fell into obscurity after publication Sita uses the power of the internet to make these important public domain texts available to all for free in a carefully designed readable contemporary format Sita has also invited writers and scholars to write short introductions to each of these texts and commissioned artists to create new covers you can now read and share Sita's books for free in the future we plan to republish new works explore texts in Spanish and invite contemporary authors to participate visit sitha press.org to learn more this is how the website looks like right now there are also funny gifts hitting like there are yeah there are where are the rest there are many um I think this is my favorite um and the kind of the the whole idea of it is to eventually so no let's just go to one of the books um because no one is being paid and it's not because I don't want to it's just because I can't um I'm using a kind of a very straightforward attribution kind of policy so the names of the authors of any kind are in the cover of each book and kind of repeated within the whole website many times um there's also a credits page in which you can find where is it that I've taken from the icons that wink in the video to the voice of the video to the uh JavaScript library that I use that I'm going to show you in a sec um so this is for example one essay written in 1892 that has suffered a number of changes over the years including mainly in the existing online archives like project Gutenberg they have changed sections from the originals and those are things that I would never know but that I learned through inviting these scholars write these introductions so like they know way more than I do about this stuff and they kind of have suggested certain things pretty much uh what Sita does is it uses a I think whole binary that we can talk if we have time um that converts CSS and HTML's into printable books um so what it does is it has some issues that I'm still figuring out like it has some like um uh bleeding options that um sometimes are complicated to fit if you already have an image for the cover and doesn't have bleeding because it's not designed for print um but pretty much you can have like the full paging you can have booklet sheets so that like it goes like one three two on two yeah booklet sheets um crop marks uh bleeding then you can have like different sizes mainly in inches I'm sorry about that um and that's pretty much it on the website um there are like currently six books ongoing three of them are available online two of which you have around uh some others do not have an introduction yet so that's why they're not ready uh and there are others apart from these that I'm working on having anytime soon um and that's that's pretty much it that's pretty much what this is I don't want to kind of not say that I am more than open to yes to collaborating if any of you is interested in doing any type of uh volunteering from designing a cover to um to give it a fund that is open source if you've made you think it's pretty great for this um to just cheering up that helps or there is a jithub page um that it's open it's under an MIT license um so yes that's that's pretty much it thank you I kind of went super fast because I thought I was off time so and I have no idea really what time it started so I think we have time um I'm happy to delve more into anything that you think I didn't speak enough about or that you will think it's more interesting um I don't want to go a lot into the technical issue of binary that is this JavaScript library because I didn't make it um and because it's pretty straightforward so if you're interested in using that at all to make in websites be printable objects it's very easy again it's in the credits page um yeah so it's for CETA press available yes so what's the handle or the as uh oh it's CETA I don't know if there's anybody kind of working on library studies or library sciences but the the project actually started as a print project um in which I would just make books PDFs that people could photocopy pretty cheaply in community libraries especially I live in Texas especially in Texas in the US um and it became a total different thing when I was trying to just really push for the accessibility that online channels gifts gift um but there is a big print component on like almost zine making um so if anybody is interested in hosting uh a workshop I am just I have all these ready to print material um that I'm not putting online because it's very confusing if you have never made books if you have never if you don't know how booklets work it's very confusing but um I'm working with some community librarians in Texas and in New York that are making these tiny workshops with some groups of people um so hit me up too if you're interested at all just gonna go back to that slide because it's kind of cute what's the one word about printing actually like you're speaking now about this workshop but what's the reason to so it depends it depends you have to know already something to use the binary thing to print it comes with crops and it comes with but you have to know have to like tell the printer to flip the page and like all the sorts of stuff um so that's why I also have these letter size content um that is mainly thought for groups of people so that they can print one and photocopy um yes you can read it in your mobile phone yeah you could I mean you could read it online you could print it you could read it online as a book or you could not read it at all there are many options yes I think you're doing some really great stuff and it's wonderful to see these uh you know these essays and documents reprinted and I thank you for bringing the books I love them I see I have a question about it I think and I just wonder whether you could get a bit more exposure there's no improved page in your book okay which is the page that has things like the ISPN and the library cataloging and if you had that it might be easier for libraries to be able to order a single copy they could then duplicate so I wonder if you can consider that yes I'm considering making those books available on print on demand options um it's it's actually if you go to the page and you click it says come in soon so is there it's not happening yet uh but then I will also have to like buy an ISPN for each book and like I mean but I will have to anyway like to do that so there is like a colophon in the book which can like go to the rest of the content but yeah like ideally to catalog the books more extensively it will be pretty cool to have more stuff um again the print books are slower in production um but yeah so it depends I'm still playing around with what the the the binary can do there are some lines like there are some limitations for web always and compared to print that you cannot really control like widows or rivers like all those things are just like very difficult um and I'm again figuring it out I'm a mainly print based designer so I've learned a lot um but um the the design is pretty much I'm going with fairly conventional rules of typography like size base I'm using a slightly bigger size for accessibility issues but um most of the staff is like fairly conventional like just like the bleeding and yeah I would be happy to I mean I don't feel entitled to edit certain texts that I don't know very well that I like them as a reader but I would be very happy to have invited editors to do that stuff be like and kind of justify it from the scholarship perspective why is it that is happening um I I like thinking that I build a platform that people can do stuff with that I don't feel entitled to yet at least but yeah that would be pretty cool this is funny it feels funny like those that of you that have presented and then there is this silence in which you don't know if people are going to ask something or not I think yes I think it's really nice to reactivate this content by designing it and bringing it in another light so what and you're talking about this printing workshops what are what are your ambitions there and what are your ambitions there I mean I just like it literally went up two weeks ago so I am again figuring it out I am my main kind of goal is for people to read the fucking books like to read them and in whatever context they can in whatever medium they have available if more stuff can happen if people are like oh I'm just I want to fight you and I want to contribute or I want to whatever I'm I'm very happy to do like in terms of ambitions I would like to edit other languages I would like to add a contemporary authors that publish books and essays on public domain or own creative commons licenses but I don't know like that is already works like like a scene just for economic issues because it's easier if it's letter size and you photocopy and a photocopier that is almost the same anywhere but I'm open if you have any suggestions okay thank you