Collaboratively writing Understanding Energy Storage The book Understanding Energy Storage was produced during a Book Sprint hosted by Power Africa, the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), and the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) in Cape Town in June 2022. The Book Sprint ... read more
Dear Friends of Book Sprints During 2022, hybrid online and remote Book Sprints became a thing. We combined what we learned about online Book Sprints during the pandemic with our in-person Book Sprint process into a hybrid format. It allowed ... read more
WWF recently published the second book in the series “The Art and Craft of Systems Change“, facilitated by Book Sprints and written by a group of dedicated, knowledgable authors from the field of nature conservation and systemic change. The book ... read more
Many in the tech industry started out with FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) projects, and so did the Book Sprints method. And just like software development, so did the development of the method go through some trial and error, and ... read more
The task to get a group of experts committed to a 5-day Book Sprint can be tricky. People take a risk putting their names on a book with others, and taking days off their busy routine to try out a ... read more
2021 was a year of improving what we learned about online Book Sprints in 2020, and a chance to slowly go back to our origins of in-person Book Sprints: traveling the world to meet with groups for an intense 5-day ... read more
Recently, the book Open Knowledge Institutions was openly published by MIT Press. This title went through a radically collaborative and transparent writing and publication process: From its collaborative drafting facilitated by the Book Sprints team, to its open review period ... read more
What does it look like when a group of people get together, led by a facilitator, to write a book in five days? Some photos from the last Sprint tell the story. The improbable mission: ‘You mean an actual book, ... read more
Recently we were privileged to be part of the Collective Wisdom project, funded by UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. A key output of this project, was to write an open access book about how to do crowdsourcing in the ... read more
What makes our particular kind of facilitation at Book Sprints unique? We often get asked how what we do is different to the facilitation of an “unconference style participatory event” which have become popular in the technology space. Adam Hyde, ... read more
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