The “Cost of Freedom” Book Sprint is taking place this week in honor of Bassel Khartabil. Bassel, who has been an active contributor to free/open knowledge projects around the world, was taken a political prisoner in Syria in 2012. Since ... read more
The Book Sprint for International IDEA finished up on Friday around 4pm, after a long night on Thursday, and just in time for the remaining participants to take a walk around the lake and catch a chilly sunset. The book ... read more
The International IDEA Book Sprint is nearing the end and our days in the royal castle (apparently in part belonging to the Swedish royal family) are numbered. We took a photo in the parlour over tea to celebrate everyone and ... read more
Around the same time in 2014, International IDEA organised their first Book Sprint on “Open Source Technology in Electoral Administration.” This time instead of open source they are tackling the issue of certification of ICTs in elections. The group includes ... read more
There are a lot of exciting Book Sprints coming up this fall. October On October 12, IDEA – International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance started their second Book Sprint in Sweden, after last year’s Book Sprint was a great ... read more
A very intense and enjoyable 5-day Book Sprint concluded this Friday at Cisco’s Campus, California. The group of participants came out with the “Programmability and Automation with Cisco Open NX-OS” guide.
Yesterday a new Book Sprint started at the Cisco’s System Campus in Milpitas, California. During five days, ten Cisco’ engineers are pooling together their expertise to co-write the Open NX-OS programmability guide (Camden specifics). Cisco has opened up its NX-OS, ... read more
Below are a few video testimonials from contributors of the Public Library of Science Book Sprint which took place in San Francisco in the second week of May 2015.
After four days, we finished the operations manual for Phase III of the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) today. In ten sections, the manual specifies the procedures both within the team and between partners for the key components of the ... read more
As the Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) is preparing for its third phase, they are convening a Book Sprint this week in central Tokyo to write an operations manual. The goal is to both codify the staff’s tacit knowledge around ... read more
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