Co-creation plan: Matterszine first issue｜Result announcement & crowdfunding & recruitment of editorial team

Matterszine is an open, co-created, community-participating project that collects the works of twenty authors with a maximum word limit of 200,000 words. The topics range from travel to life, original works to identity, and represents the writing record on the Matters platform. The author of life.

We believe that returning the post-production of Matterszine to the community can continue the community feel of the first issue. We welcome citizens who like this co-creation project to support it. For the post-production part of this co-creation project, we hope to launch crowdfunding in the community and openly recruit editing and proofreading teams. Supporters can donate through the "Support Function" to ensure the successful completion of the publication. Those who are interested in participating in editing and proofreading Friends can form a team and write in to sign up.

The editing and proofreading team participating in the post-production of Matterszine will receive a reward of US$950; we hope to publicly raise part of the funds, with a target amount of US$450. Creators and readers who support the project, and citizens who are eager to create the first issue of Matterszine, can Through the "Support Function" of the article, support fiat currency or USDT for this article , so that this integration will become the joint crystallization and hard work of Matters creators and readers, and become an important element representing Matters.

(1) List of twenty shortlisted authors <br class="smart">First announced is the list of today’s shortlisted authors. A total of nearly 30 people participated in this Matterszine Magazine and handed over a collection of more than 300,000 words. After balancing the titles and contents of each selection, we are very happy that 20 authors were shortlisted for this Matterszine Magazine.

Travel: "The distance comes to your feet"
@大狗Stephen , @小芮安, @Fishear , @秋丽

Personal feelings and life: "This is how the trivial aspects of life look like."

@陈海雅, @Flora奇phant , @yuanyuanyuan , @Joanna

Book and movie reviews: "I am such a viewer"

@看影呓语, @talala , @MaryVentura , @孙李

Original work: "The moment of inspiration"

@Jennifer talks a lot , @Chin , @Lola , @ale

Gender Diversity: "Rose-Colored You"

@Simone Fang , @无解, @ Drink a little bit of wine

Thanks to the participation of more than thirty authors in total, your writing has made Matters' first electronic publication about to be launched, allowing more people to see the ecology of our group of creators and readers.

(2) Crowdfunding: Create the first issue of MattersZine together, everyone is sincerely invited to participate

The importance of the first issue is that it represents the vitality, spiritual outlook, precious and precipitated experience of the creators of Matters. Writing is a way to organize yourself, express your feelings, heal yourself, or even change the world. It is a dialogue with yourself, others, and the world. We write and meet in the city of Matt with this face.

After careful consideration, we hope to open the editing and proofreading process to community applications, while the design will be handled by Matters designers. This arrangement is in the hope that the first issue of MattersZine can be born and grow in the community. Community matters return to the community. We believe that the editorial team that likes to create projects together will have another kind of vitality. They will integrate their own understanding of Matt City into the editing process, which also gives another meaning to the editing and proofreading work. To this end, we will crowdfund part of the amount, with a target of NT$14,200 (US$450).

The first issue of MattersZine will be released soon. Citizens, creators, and readers are hereby invited to actively participate in the crowdfunding to support this article by supporting functions. Support fiat currency or USDT. No matter how much, the little will make up. By jointly raising funds, participate in the first issue of MattersZine. published to create a collection that represents the city of Matt. All the money we receive will be paid to the editing and proofreading team. After this e-book is put on the shelves, it will be free. We hope to better promote Matt City to the public. To this end, we will hold subsequent publicity activities, so please pay attention.

Supporters will receive a signed special edition cover of the first issue of MattersZine

In order to thank all the citizens and supporters, whether they are creators or readers, if you use the support function to support this publication with legal currency and USDT, we will contact you by email before publication and give you a special signed copy of the first issue of MattersZine version of the NFT cover, which will be airdropped to your wallet bound on Matters. If you do not have an encrypted wallet, we will send the signed special edition cover of the first issue of MattersZine to your email as a souvenir and to thank everyone for your support!

(3) Public recruitment of editorial teams within the community

Matterszine is a collection of the journeys and stories of multiple creators. We hope to complete every process within the community, including editing, proofreading, and making e-books.

The following open communities apply for editing and proofreading teams.

The work requirements and procedures of the editing and proofreading team:

1. Editing and formatting e-book content:

• Enter the foreword written by Matty.

• Develop a table of contents and structure to ensure content is clearly structured and makes it easier for readers to find specific articles.

• Typesetting the main content, placing it in the appropriate position in a predetermined order, adjusting text line spacing, page length and width, title form, etc. You also need to add the author's avatar and article pictures (one for each article), and the pictures will be provided by Matty.

• Create a credits page.

Budget: US$340 (equivalent to NT$10,699)

2. Proofreading work:

• Check for typos, spelling errors, punctuation and grammatical errors in the approximately 200,000 words in the full text.

• Don't modify anything, just focus on fixing errors.

Budget: US$420 (equivalent to NT$13,216)

3. The output is in a shelf-ready format:

• Edit the entire e-book into a format that can be put on Readmoo, Google Books and Apple Books, such as EPUB, PDF, etc.

• Ensure that the output format meets appropriate publishing requirements and platform requirements.

Budget: US$190 (equivalent to NT$6,000)

The above are the work requirements and processes of the editing and proofreading teams. These steps will help ensure the quality of the e-book and the smoothness of its release. The above steps require communication with Matty to ensure that the content is accurate. When performing the above steps, the team needs to arrange the content of approximately two authors (about 10%) in the early stage, communicate and confirm with Matty, and then proceed with the subsequent steps. .

Requirements for the editing and proofreading team:

• You need to register as a group, there is no limit to the number of people, it is up to the group to decide.

• Please list the basic information and division of labor of the team members in the application letter, and send the application letter and resume of past editing, proofreading and e-book related experience to hi@matters.town .

• The email title is "Matterszine Editorial and Proofreading Team Application."

Application deadline

The application deadline for the editing and proofreading team is 23:59 pm on March 25 (East 8th District). Matty will reply to the results by email at the end of March, announce the selected team in the message area of ​​this announcement, and start communication with the team at the same time. .

Report from the editing and proofreading team:

The team as a whole will receive US$950, and the work period will be completed within two months from the start (you can decide when to pay within the deadline). The amount will be distributed in the form of USDT to the wallet provided by the team, and 50% will be completed ( 1) Payment after the process, 50% will be supported after completing the processes (2) and (3). The team will decide how to allocate the total amount to the team members.

If you have any questions about the above process, please send an email to hi@matters.town for inquiries.

Thank you again for your support, and we hope to get the participation of the citizens of Matt City to create this representative first issue.