Dear F/LOSS designers, publishing enthusiasts and PPP practitioners,

(PPP) is calling for a new round of maintainers! It's time for the previous group of maintainers to hand over the housekeeping of the PPP infrastructure to a new group of enthusiastic caretakers which will look after PPP in 2024.

wants to gather those working with experimental publishing techniques and to make space for conversations, discussions, exchange, help and action, while documenting the activities, experiments and projects of a community of practices around Free/Libre Open-Source Software (F/LOSS) publishing tools.

Since October 2022, a group of people has been in charge of the PPP infrastructure: the website, its server, the Matrix chat rooms, the e-mail exchanges and the mailing list, the Mastodon account, and any other tool that the group would feel a need to have. PPP maintainers meet in person every 6 months and we rotate every year with a call for new maintainers.

We feel that the group of maintainers should not be too big, possibly not more than 10 people. We propose to use a random choice if more are interested in becoming a PPP maintainer. Once we know who will form the next maintainer group, the proposal is to meet in Paris in person on Friday the 19th of January 2024, to hand over the maintenance tasks and keys and kick off the new cycle together. There will be a workshop on the two following days in Paris (Saturday 20th + Sunday 21st of January) organised by Julie Blanc and Yann Trividic, which most of the current maintainers will attend and new ones are welcome to join as well.

If you're interested to join the PPP maintainers group, send an email to info@prepostprint.org before Friday the 8th of December 2023 (end of the day). If you have any questions about this call, feel free to reach out to us on Matrix (https://matrix.to/#/#prepostprint-public:matrix.org) or by email.

— The current PPP maintainer's group (Quentin Juhel, Julien Bidoret, Zeste Le Reste, Manetta Berends, Julien Taquet, Raphaël Bastide, Martin Lemaire, Simon Browne).