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
The last Book Sprint as part of the Book Sprints for ICT Research project was held recently in Nice, France. We typically discourage interviews or other processes that will take focus away from the Book Sprint energy and focus. However ... read more
The Digital Publishing Toolkit conference “Off the Press” was held in Rotterdam in the last week of May, 2104. Two presentations featured Book Sprints, the first was by Adam Hyde and touched on Book Sprints as a methodology within the ... read more
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