Following on from the success of the Open Oil Book Sprint “How to read and understand oil contracts” (now almost 40,000 downloads) a similarly themed sprint on Mining Contracts has been confirmed for December of this year.
This October there are 3 Book Sprints lined up – one each for Google (San Francisco), Safari Books Online (Boston), and the European Commission (Portugal). It is going to be a fascinating month as the sprints are all very diverse ... read more
Sept 20 and 21 Adam Hyde will lead a workshop on collaborative dictionary production in Tunisia for the UNDP. The project will produce a dictionary in Arabic on electoral terms with English and French translations. This will be a one ... read more
September 27 Adam Hyde will be presenting about Book Sprints and the future of publishing at the Göteborg Book Fair, Göteborg, Sweden.
Sept 16 & 17 Adam Hyde will be presenting at the W3C conference on publishing at the Center Pompidou, Paris France. Adam will present on a panel about current available online book production technologies and techniques.
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Stockholm, Sweden) will host a workshop on collaborative book production facilitated by Adam Hyde. The event will be a 1 day workshop (Sept 24) and will cover a brief introduction to Book Sprints ... read more
I am looking for someone to train as a Book Sprint facilitator. The successful candidate must be passionate about collaborative production and have a drive to learn the Book Sprint methodology. Experience as a facilitator in other areas of collaboration such ... read more
Google Summer of Code Doc Camp – a partnership of GSoC, Aspiration and FLOSS Manuals This is a call for proposals for the 2013 GSoC Doc Camp. Individuals and projects are invited to submit proposals for the GSoC Doc Camp ... read more
Michael Dieter, who is a keen observer of Book Sprints and participated in several has a new article out about the process: http://hybridpublishing.org/2013/07/book-sprints-post-digital-scholarship-and-subjectivation/
The following are snippets from a survey of the Open Contracting Book Sprint participants. Survey conducted by the World Bank Institute. “It was advanced level of writing a book in a collaborative manner. Most efficiently, it can be used not ... read more
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