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  • News on Open Oil

    By adam Apr 27, 2014

    Some recently found articles about the 2012 OpenOil Book Sprint. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/fighting-the-resource-curse/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 http://www.oilinuganda.org/features/governance/booksprint-sets-out-to-demystify-oil-contracts.html https://netzpolitik.org/2012/openoil-projekt-fur-mehr-transparenz-in-der-ol-industrie/ http://loomnie.com/2012/11/15/oil-contracts-how-to-read-and-understand-them/ http://energylawtaiwan.wordpress.com/2012/11/13 http://taxjustice.blogspot.de/2012/11/oil-contracts-how-to-read-and.html http://creative-destruction.me/2012/11/06/here-is-to-a-book-that-did-not-exist-a-week-ago-how-to-understand-an-oil-contract/ http://www.pipelinedreams.org/2012/10/new-resource-and-a-bit-of-self-promotion/ http://thinkafricapress.com/legal/openoil-informing-nation-oil-contracts-demystified http://blog.goethe.de/rueckeroberung/index.php?archives/20-English.html&serendipity%5Blang_selected%5D=en http://satzgrund.de/2012/11/15/openoil-mehr-transparenz-fur-die-bevolkerung/ [no longer online] http://eiti.org/blog/musings-mining-contracts-booksprint http://futurechallenges.org/local/searchlight/informing-the-people-oil-contracts-demystified/

  • PubSweet Enters the Game

    By adam Apr 25, 2014

    We have been developing a new platform for the rapid and collaborative development of books. Its called ‘PubSweet’ and will be released under an Open Source license shortly. It is a very lightweight framework for online book development and is ... read more

  • Forthcoming Book Sprints (April/May)

    By adam Apr 11, 2014

    April 7 – 11 : The Right to Health (World Bank), Bogota, Columbia April 23 – 27 : Book Sprints for ICT Research (EC), Barcelona, Spain May 5 – 8  : Book Sprints for ICT Research (EC), Nice, France May ... read more

  • Right to Health Book Sprint, Bogota

    By adam Apr 11, 2014

    We are into day 4 of a 5 day Book Sprint on the ‘The Right to Health’. The event is brought together by the World Bank. 15 experts in health policy and practice have gathered together at the lovely town ... read more

  • News Articles (etc) on Book Sprints

    By adam Apr 11, 2014

    The following are some links to news items, journal articles etc on Book Sprints and/or Adam Hyde (founder of Book Sprints) that have appeared over the years. In no particular order. The Digital Book, contributions to a discussion (2014) University ... read more

  • Helping out OSE

    By adam Mar 23, 2014

    Occasionally Book Sprints helps projects out by applying our experience in Collaborative Knowledge Production to assist projects. In these cases the process is not a Book Sprint as such but we bring to the table facilitation to help produce content ... read more

  • Book Sprints for ICT Research #3

    By adam Mar 23, 2014

    23 – 28 March 2014 Urban Interaction Design: Emerging Trends The third Book Sprint funded by the European Commission to investigate the application of the methodology as applied to the production of academic products is underway. In collaboration with UrbanIxD: Designing ... read more

  • 3 Conference Presentations

    By adam Mar 23, 2014

    Adam Hyde will be talking about Book Sprints and the future of publishing at the following events: Iannotate, April 5/6, San Francisco http://iannotate.org/ Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts,May 22,  Rotterdam http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/ The Next Chapter, May 23, Stockhom ... read more

  • Open Oil Secure Shuttleworth Grant

    By adam Feb 28, 2014

    We are very happy to pass on the news that Johnny West and Open Oil (http://openoil.net/) have been awarded a Shuttleworth Grant (http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/johnny-west/). Book Sprints has worked with Johnny and Open Oil on a number occasions including the very successful books ‘Oil Contracts ... read more