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
in 2012 the European Commission supported a research project to investigate the application of Book Sprints in the field of ICT academic research. The first sprint in this series was held in the beautiful village of Mata Pequena in Portugal ... read more
The 3rd Google Doc Camp completed earlier today. We hosted 3 Book Sprint groups at the Google campus in Mountain View, California. Present were people from OpenMRS, Mallard, and BRL-CAD. In addition there were 4 extra keen open source documentarian ... read more
Tomorrow the Google Doc Camp begins. It is an initiative started by Google Open Source Programs Office, FLOSS Manuals, and Aspiration. The event features 3-4 open source projects each year. The projects are invited to Googles HQ in Sunnyvale and ... read more
The first Book Sprint in the Book Sprints for ICT Research series is done! The group consisted of 8 participants – 2 organisers of the UrbanIxD Summer School and 6 of the schools participants. The group decided early on to produce ... 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
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.
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