2015 in review
Another great year has gone by, and again we delivered books to 100% of our clients at the end of each Book Sprint. There are several highlights that stood out this year. We are especially happy about our new and ... read more
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Book Sprints at Open Education Conference
Last month at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver, Arthur ‘Gill’ Green from the University of British Colombia, Clint Lalonde of BCcampus, and Barbara Rühling of Book Sprints presented together a Book Sprint for an Open Geography Textbook for college ... read more
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A very large book on vMS Operations & Troubleshooting!
The final Book Sprint of the Year for Cisco Systems concluded yesterday in Raleigh, Durham with a comprehensive Operations and Troubleshooting guide for customers of Virtual Managed Services. The book includes loads of useful diagrams, illustrative call flows and step-by-step ... read more
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Books printed from Cisco’s last Book Sprint
On October 2, a team from Cisco finished a five-day Book Sprint and produced a 284-page book: Programmability and Automation with Cisco Open NX-OS. The digital version of the book was available immediately. Later they decided to print 3,000 copies ... read more
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5th Cisco Book Sprint and final Sprint for 2015!
Today was the first day of Cisco’s latest Book Sprint to document operations and troubleshooting for customers using Cisco’s Virtual Managed Services (VMS). An international group of 10 contributors working on Cisco’s VMS around the world have gathered for a ... read more
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The book “Practitioners’ Advice on Integrity Pacts” is done!
Four days after they first got together, a group of contributors from ten chapters of Transparency International concluded the Book Sprint in Berlin. The resulting book explains the life cycle of Integrity Pacts, a monitoring tool for procurement projects, and ... read more
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Transparency International Book Sprint
In 2016, Transparency International will start working together with several European Union members states to better manage and monitor the spending of EU funds. To do so they will implement Integrity Pacts (IPs), which are contracts between authorities, bidders, and ... read more
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ADA Book Sprint done!
Busy times in Book Sprint land. We have had three weeks straight of Book Sprints in Tel Aviv, New Zealand, France, and Rwanda with two more weeks coming up (Berlin, and San Francisco). Busy days. In the meantime the ADA ... read more
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Africa’s Blue Economy: A policy handbook
A late night on day 5 and we are finished with the first Blue Economy Policy Handbook for Africa. Tomorrow the participants from UNECA will travel together through the winding hills of the highly cultivated countryside of the aptly named, ... read more
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UNECA Book Sprint on the Blue Economy
Africa’s oceans, rivers and lakes amount to three times the mass of the land of the 54 countries combined. However according to the emerging experts of the Blue Economy, the continent’s socio-economic development strategy of the continent has neglected the ... read more