Author archive for adam
  • Report on BC OER Book Sprint

    taken from http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/07/02/clint-lalonde-bccampus-reflections-on-an-open-textbook-sprint/comment-page-1/ Clint Lalonde (BCcampus): Reflections on an Op: en Textbook Sprint POSTED ON JULY 2, 2014 BY BECK PITT We’re excited to work with all our collaborators and, as you may have picked up in previous posts. we’ve just started to ... read more

  • OpenStack Architecture Design Guide released!

    The third book we Book Sprinted with the OpenStack Foundation is now available! http://docs.openstack.org/arch-design/content/index.html “This book was written in a book sprint format, which is a facilitated, rapid development production method for books. For more information, see the Book Sprints ... read more

  • Concept, Write, Revise

    We are in day 3 of the OpenStack Architecture Guide Book Sprint. This is the 3rd of 3 Book Sprints we have done for the foundation. It’s always good fun and a great honor to be working with such good ... read more

  • Open Stack Book Sprint #3 Underway!

    In Palo Alto California (Silicon Valley) right now a third Book Sprint for the Open Stack community is underway. We are running ahead full speed through the scoping and of the book, breaking it down into 7 sections. 3 groups ... read more

  • Report from Times Up Book Sprint

    “One could elaborate on the “histories, presents, and possible futures” of textual artefacts and writing processes in general that the Book Sprint experience brought to mind. One might think of Kerouac’s “first thought, best thought” versus Flaubert’s monthlong polishing of a ... read more

  • BC TextBook Book Sprint Underway

    Free and easy to update university textbooks, available in multiple formats? They exist. We’re working on one right now. Book Sprint facilitator Barbara Rühling and trainee Faith Bosworth are in British Columbia, Canada, working on the production of a Geography ... read more

  • On Book Sprints PDF

    http://data.booksprints.net/books/OnBookSprints-pdf.php The above is for version 1.1 of On Book Sprints. Produced during a 4 day Book Sprint in May 2014.  

  • 2nd Times Up Book Sprint

    The second Book Sprint held by Times Up (Linz, Austria) was held in the first week of June, facilitated by Barbara Rühling. Eleven futurists gathered in a large Austrian ‘villa’ (mansion) on the banks of Lake Attersee to follow up ... read more