This morning a new Book Sprint started at the Center for Collaborative Creativity in Kings Cross, London. There are 7 sprinters from NGOs that work with monitoring and analysing data that governments make available. Its a pretty diverse group with one ... read more
The Open Oil team had their book printed and sent it to funders and interested parties. A print run of 3000 books is also in the works after a little run through to check some formatting. The Book Sprint was ... read more
Today is the first full day of a very fascinating Book Sprint. We are working to produce a short text (12,000) words but also generating a theory at the same time. It’s certainly adding items to my Book Sprint toolbox. ... read more
Yesterday we finished how the book “Oil Contracts – how to read and understand them”. It was a great 5 day Book Sprint with 15 people in total including support crew. The book aims to help make oil contracts more ... read more
If you wish to commission a Book Sprint follow this simple process: Choose a topic. Think about the topic in terms of a title and subtitle for your book. Consider a range of possible dates and locations. Contact adam@booksprints.net to discuss ... read more
Yesterday we began the Open Oil Book Sprint “How to Read and Understand Oil Contracts”. The event is brought together by NGO Open Oil (http://www.openoil.net) and is intended to produce a book that can be used by anyone wanting to ... read more
Adam Hyde will facilitate a Book Sprint for the Open Knowledge Foundation in London, November 12-15. There will be 8 participants and the resulting book will be released immediately after the event. The following taken from: http://openspending.org/blog/2012/09/11/Spending-Data-Handbook.html Spending Data Handbook ... read more
Together with Takween, icecairo is pleased to announce the ecocities camp (November 26-29, Cairo, Egypt) – an event focused on sharing what works for solving the challenges faced by big cities in an environmentally sustainable way. During the event there ... read more
“Doc Sprint Camp” at Google’s Mountain View headquarters (California) Dec 3 – 7, 2012. The 2012 Doc Camp will feature: * An unconference on free software documentation topics – facilitated by Allen Gunn * 2-5 Book Sprints to produce books on free ... read more
Orginal post on October 2, 2012 by Tryggvi Thayer and can be found here: http://www.education4site.org/blog/2012/booksprints-fast-track-to-rigorous-open-educational-resources/ A group of Finnish mathematics researchers, teachers and students got together this past weekend (Sept. 28-30, 2012) to produce a mathematics textbook in three days. They’re not quite done, but at ... read more
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