Last week we ventured into new grounds and tested the Book Sprint method in a new environment and in quite a different genre: writing a mining policy for Burundi. Writing a policy differs from other Book Sprints in some important ... read more
We were invited some time ago by the GIZ (germany) to facilitate the production of government policy for Burundi. Our facilitation team is now there and will be working for 3 days on this project. Barbara Rühling and Laia Ros ... read more
It’s the fifth and final day of the Book Sprint for the OpenStack Architecture Design Guide and the contributors are tired and occasionally looking to the facilitators as if to ask, “Why are you doing this to me?” But the ... read more
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
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
“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
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
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.
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
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