PRESS RELEASE MINING CONTRACTS: HOW TO READ AND UNDERSTAND THEM 2.00pm – 3.00pm, Wednesday, February 5, 2014, Mining Indaba Room 1.63 Cape Town International Convention Center Learn about a new resource on mining contracts -hot off the press. Fourteen experts ... read more
We have been working hard in the back rooms of Book Sprints. It has been productive times and we will soon try out our new platform built for accelerated and collaborative book production. Code named ‘PubSweet’ the platform is still ... read more
Those wonderful Aspiration folks are doing their annual Not-for-Profit Dev Summit in San Francisco and Book Sprints is going to be there! Adam Hyde will be present at the event having attended one 4 years ago and enjoyed it so ... read more
The Book Sprints team is expanding! Due to the increased interest in Book Sprints the team is expanding to include a new business manager, a new facilitator and we have a new business – Book Sprints Limited. René Post joins ... read more
We are looking pretty busy for the first quarter of 2014 with Book Sprints coming up for a wide variety of organisations. If you are considering a Book Sprint then please be in touch sooner rather than later. We are ... read more
The successful Book Sprints for ICT Research program was intended to be an experiment testing the applicability of Book Sprints in academic contexts. However the research project, funded by the European Commission, has been successful in producing two academic works ... read more
The following are links to posts about the recently completed Google Doc Camp: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/book-sprints-an-open-approach-to-collaborative-writing/article5282472.ece http://ericholscher.com/blog/2013/oct/24/google-book-sprint-2013/ http://brlcad.org/d/node/187 http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=1542http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-doc-camp-2013-wrapup.html http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Doc_Camp
Coming up in the next 2 weeks are two Book Sprints. The first is in Boston for Safari Books. We will be focusing on documentation about PubFactory. The second is to be held on the following week in Malta. The ... read more
Books in Browsers 2013 just finished and it was a great event. The best event anywhere which explores the centers and peripheries of books and publishing. Below is a video of a presentation by Adam Hyde about Collaborative Knowledge Production ... read more
The second Book Sprint in the Book Sprints for ICT Research (http://booksprints-for-ict-research.eu) series will be a collaboration with FoCAS (www.focas.eu). This very interesting group has been coordinating research into the Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems which is a Future and ... read more
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