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  • Now in print: O’Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide

    The OpenStack Operations Guide is the first Book Sprinted book published by a major Publisher. The Book Sprint was facilitated by Adam Hyde in 2013. Taken from http://opensource.com/business/14/4/oreilly-openstack-operations-guide Now in print: O’Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide Posted 29 Apr 2014 by Jason Baker (Red ... read more

  • Book Sprint on Social Innovation Labs

    Next week (May 5) we have two Book Sprints running concurrently. The 5th in the Book Sprints for ICT Research series and a Book Sprint on Social Innovation Labs. The following is about the Labs Book Sprint (taken from http://www.kennisland.nl/filter/nieuws/kennisland-contributes-to-booksprint-on-social-innovation-labs) KENNISLAND ... read more

  • News on Open Oil

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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