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  • Forthcoming Book Sprints (April/May)

    April 7 – 11 : The Right to Health (World Bank), Bogota, Columbia April 23 – 27 : Book Sprints for ICT Research (EC), Barcelona, Spain May 5 – 8  : Book Sprints for ICT Research (EC), Nice, France May ... read more

  • News Articles (etc) on Book Sprints

    The following are some links to news items, journal articles etc on Book Sprints and/or Adam Hyde (founder of Book Sprints) that have appeared over the years. In no particular order. The Digital Book, contributions to a discussion (2014) University ... read more

  • 3 Conference Presentations

    Adam Hyde will be talking about Book Sprints and the future of publishing at the following events: Iannotate, April 5/6, San Francisco http://iannotate.org/ Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts,May 22,  Rotterdam http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/ The Next Chapter, May 23, Stockhom ... read more

  • Open Oil Secure Shuttleworth Grant

    We are very happy to pass on the news that Johnny West and Open Oil (http://openoil.net/) have been awarded a Shuttleworth Grant (http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/johnny-west/). Book Sprints has worked with Johnny and Open Oil on a number occasions including the very successful books ‘Oil Contracts ... read more

  • Calling BC Geography Faculty – come book sprinting with us

    taken from, http://open.bccampus.ca/2014/02/13/calling-bc-geography-faculty/ Calling BC Geography Faculty – come book sprinting with us BCcampus has a unique opportunity for Geography faculty to participate in an innovative open textbook project. We are looking for 6 Geography faculty to take part in ... read more

  • Revenue Watch Post about Mining Contracts Book Sprint

    Taken from http://www.revenuewatch.org/news/blog/new-booksprint-creates-guide-understanding-mining-contracts New “Booksprint” Creates Guide to Understanding Mining Contracts Matthew Genasci As more countries come to see the importance of contract transparency in oil, gas and mining, more contracts are becoming available for scrutiny in the public domain. Resourcecontracts.org currently hosts ... read more

  • Upcoming Book Sprints

    The 2014 schedule is filling up. The following is a short summary of upcoming Book Sprints run by our fabulous team of facilitators: BS4ICTResearch March 24, Berlin, Germany In collaboration with UrbanIxD: Designing Human Interactions in the Networked City, a Coordination ... read more

  • Adam Hyde nominated for the Visionary Pioneer Award

    Ars Electronica have nominated Adam Hyde for the Visionary Pioneer Award for his work in Book Sprints and collaborative knowledge production. http://www.aec.at/prix/visionary-pioneers/ “Founder and pioneer of new collaborative knowledge production methods including the Book Sprint (0 to book in 5 ... read more

  • The Sound of a Book Sprint

    The good folks of the FoCAS (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems) wrote in the research newsletter about the Book Sprint we facilitated for them late last year 2013). Its a great article…click on the below to read. To get the ... read more

  • OER Book Sprint in BC

    Taken from http://clintlalonde.net/2014/02/06/a-sprinting-we-will-go/ A sprinting we will go! Posted on February 6, 2014 February 6, 2014by Clint Lalonde Ok, I am pretty pumped about this. I’ve been working on this for the past few months and am very happy to see it coming to fruition. ... read more