News
  • Books in Browsers

    Adam Hyde will be presenting at Books in Browsers in Oct, 2013 (San Francisco). A list of presenters is to be found here: http://bib.archive.org/

  • Multiple Book Sprint Event Announced

    For the third year in a row there will be a Doc Camp organised by FLOSS Manuals, the Google Open Source Programs Office, and Aspiration. Each year has combined several parallel Book Sprints in combination with an unconference. The Book ... read more

  • Book Sprint on Book Sprints Announced

    In Oct 2013 a Book Sprint on Book Sprints is planned. This is being organised by Adam Hyde, Dr David Berry, and Dr Michael Dieter. The event will be held in Germany with participants yet to be Confirmed. The Book ... read more

  • IAnnotate Video

    Video of Adam Hydes presentation at IAnnotate, San Francisco, May 2013. The presentation focuses on the use of notation and annotation in Book Sprints.

  • Goethe Post on Book Sprints

    Taken from : http://blog.goethe.de/rueckeroberung/archives/20-Book-Sprint-the-fastest-way-of-openly-transferring-knowledge-through-collaborative-writing.html Monday, 25. March 2013 “Book Sprint” – the fastest way of openly transferring knowledge through collaborative writing Over the past few years a new format of transferring and recording knowledge has been developing. It is based ... read more

  • Paper on Book Sprints for OER

    A recent paper published by CETIS. Abstract below, the full paper is here: http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/764 Its a very good article except that it makes one small factual error. Book Sprints were not inspired by Agile programming methods. The methodology was largely ... read more

  • Berlin Workshop

    There will be a workshop on collaborative book production at the Supermarkt, Berlin May 22 (1500). Adam Hyde will present remotely and in brief about Book Sprints and the general approach to collaborative book production. http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/en/content/diy-masterclass-writing-publishing-open-source-books

  • Hardening Open Stack Book Sprint

    Still to be confirmed but it looks like there will be a Book Sprint on Hardening Open Stack in the last week of June facilitated by Adam Hyde.

  • The Göteborg Book Fair Presentation

    Adam Hyde will be presenting about the future of publishing and Book Sprints at the 2013 The Göteborg Book Fair. The dates are to be confirmed for the presentation but the fair is Sept 26-29.