At re:publica last week we talked about free internet activist Bassel Khardabil and his love for free culture, and the love of the free culture community for Bassel. Bassel Khardabil was unlawfully detained in Damascus in March 2012. His name ... read more
Book Sprints founder Adam Hyde blogs a lot about publishing, open source and collaboration. If you would like to read his posts have a look here! http://www.adamhyde.net/ His latest post about Attribution and Open Source is a particularly good read but ... read more
Last month at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver, Arthur ‘Gill’ Green from the University of British Colombia, Clint Lalonde of BCcampus, and Barbara Rühling of Book Sprints presented together a Book Sprint for an Open Geography Textbook for college ... read more
If you speak Russian, Arabic or Farsi then this blog post is directly speaking to you. Last week we helped with the Cost of Freedom Book Sprint to aid the #FreeBassel campaign. Unfortunately news about Bassel Safadi today is not ... read more
There are a lot of exciting Book Sprints coming up this fall. October On October 12, IDEA – International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance started their second Book Sprint in Sweden, after last year’s Book Sprint was a great ... read more
We are proud to announce the first film made about a Book Sprint. This short film (20 minutes) was produced in Nigeria during the ‘Nameless’ Book Sprint in December of 2014. Produced and directed by Barbara Rühling and Luis Antonio ... read more
We are very happy to present our short documentary “The story of a book” shot in November 2014 in Abuja, Nigeria. You can watch it here: The film looks behind the scenes of the writing of “Nameless,” a book ... read more
So, it’s 2015 and Book Sprints are underway. Already it has been eventful. F5 are re-formatting their book for print currently and we are planning the next Book Sprint with them in February. Cisco also has another Book Sprint coming ... read more
The Open Contracting Guide which we facilitated for the World Bank in early 2013 has been translated into Spanish and is now available online. You can see it here: http://t.co/mcy88WgmjF – or browse the embedded book below:
We are facilitating two Book Sprints this week. One is in Sweden for IDEA (The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) about the use of Open Source in elections. This will be facilitated by the talented Faith Bosworth who ... read more
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