It is a collaborative process that brings together a small group of people to develop and produce a book in 35 days. Adam has proven the book sprint method effectively again and again. November book pals selection for a good thriller group. Building on this idea, adam hyde designed a method in 2008 for an intense, fiveday sprint style event to write documentation for freelibre open source software. It was a fascinating path from idea to method which i. A group of 20 open source enthusiasts gathered together in the middle of october and wrote not just one but three books in the span of five days. Borrowing a crash production technique known as a book sprint facilited by adam hyde of, the group produced oil contracts. Adam hyde at the book sprint with the pubsweet community, june 2018 the original idea of a book sprint was initially conceptualised by tomas krag in 2005.
Tom clancy this book was first written over 5 days jan 1822, 2010 during a book sprint in berlin. Written in 5 days by a bunch of people and then presented at their conference, they then have a collaborative signing party. The collaborative futures book sprint was facilitated by adam hyde of and authored. To build a set of books in five days takes a lot of preparation work that adam hyde, founder of floss manuals, described in a prior post.
A book sprint is a shared computationalobject, held together by care for the writing. Adam is living in san francisco and he can make you write a book in 5 days. Designed in 2008 by founder adam hyde, the book sprint method allows for rapid book production and enables authors to quickly experiment with different formats and methodologies. We grabbed him for a quarter of an hour after lunch to ask him a few questions. Book sprint project coscience open science in practice. Tomas pioneered the development of the book sprint as a 34 month production cycle, while adam hyde, founder of floss manuals, was keen to continue with the idea of an extreme book. Book description this is a manual to firefox it evolved during a twoday book sprint at the doctrain west conference. Building on this idea, adam hyde designed a method in 2008 for an intense, fiveday sprintstyle event to write documentation for freelibre open source software.
Christoph also encouraged me to talk about what it was like to participate as a writer in the book sprint. My first time as a participant in one well put the book online somewhere for everyone to get and print some copies. The core authors were adam hyde, mike linksvayer, michael mandiberg, marta peirano, and alan toner. Adam is the founder and architect of booktype the open source book production and publishing platform. How this book is written collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. He also founded floss manuals, booktype, objavi, lexicon, bookjs and pubsweet. Book sprints is something that popped out of my brain and a lot of experimentation. We run sprints as a fiveday event, and use realtime collaboration tools, and sometimes bring all the authors in to a single location and have a bullpen of sorts. For the openstack operations guide, we held a fiveday book sprint in february 20.
They started off by writing topics on sticky notes. Its now its own thing and it constantly surprises me. Join the free software foundation and floss manuals march 21st22nd book sprint, introduction to the command line. If you shut people in a room for a week with seven other people with the same interests, they have a ball and write a book. Adam has over 12 years of experience in innovative publishing processes and technologies and has been embedded in the publishing industry for almost 10 years. It was a resprint if you like and was extremely successful. Ccbyncsa adam hyde from book sprints footage shot at the crypoparty handbook sprint, berlin, oct 2012 music. Coko cofounder and tech lead adam hyde is at the intersection of several of his ventures, as he participates in a shuttleworth foundation book sprint from the perspective of his time as a shuttleworth fellow. Once they had the architecture of the book defined on these sticky notes, they started to write. Inside the book sprint room with us each day was our book sprint facilitator adam hyde. The whole process was possible because aleksandar erkalovic wrote the software and was debugging it live while we were breaking it a programmers nightmare if there ever was one. Through funding provided by the university college london, qatar, qatar university, the british library and the library of congress, a coordinating group engaged book sprint, ltd, a rapid book production and collaboration methodology, and published a call for participants to write a book about glam labs in five days. Content is dynamically reflowed for each device depending on display dimensions and individualized settings. Hopefully the print ready versions will be ready within a week.
The book sprint was organized by andy oram and adam hyde for floss manuals. This gathering that is facilitated by the book sprint as an event is innovative in keeping this spirit of academic care alive. The books produced are high quality content and are made available immediately at the end of the sprint via printondemand services and ebook formats. Join facebook to connect with adam hyde and others you may know. The foundation is creating a book about the organizations vision and strategy for use internally and with philanthropists within their community. Adam founded floss manualsa community of some 3,000 individuals developing free manuals about free software. This is a wonderfully gothic and engaging tale of mr hyde from hydes point of view. Our team of content facilitators, illustrators, editors and html book designers has produced well over 100 books using the book sprint method. Free download new aesthetic new anxieties is the result of a five day book sprint organized by michelle kasprzak and led. Adam hyde, et al discover their books and more about them right here on. Without his tireless support and encouragement, we would have thought a book of this scope was impossible in five days.
The original idea of a book sprint was initially conceptualised by tomas krag in 2005 as a collaborative writing process that would take place over several months. The emergence of online book production tools is of course bringing writers online. The design sprint is a fiveday process for solving problems and testing new ideas. He is also the founder of floss manuals and the book sprint methodology. Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. Posted on april 11, 2020 categories uncategorized leave a comment on facilitation agreement for book sprints in remote context virtual book sprints.
Once youve seen whats possible in five days, it might be difficult to tackle a writing project in any other way again. Adam hyde is the founder of the book sprints methodology, cofounder of the collaborative knowledge foundation, and a current shuttleworth foundation fellow. The author wonderfully fleshes out the character as well as point out some inconsistencies in the original story. Web artist and floss manuals founder adam hyde turned the rough idea of a book sprint into a systematic method, defining and refining the process in the. Learning to have more control over your computer is an extension of your support for gnulinux and free software.
Writing the openstack operations guide openstack superuser. Our doc sprint coordinator, adam hyde, told each team to spend an hour making an outline. Over 25 writers collaborated to come up and produce this book in just two days. As anne put it, they wrote one note at time, writing the chapter title, then the chapter, revising as necessary. Precarity lab members write book in less than a week. Openstack releases every april and october, and this timing was nearly halfway between two release dates. Directed by adam hyde of floss manuals, over a dozen participants worked from 10. Many years ago i founded the book sprint methodology.
Learnings from our first fully virtual book sprint. About the bs4ictrsrch project book sprints for ict research. Adam is an independent consultant, specialising in modern knowledge production methods, and book sprint facilitator. As book sprinter adam hyde says, while you may not know the exact book you want when you go into the sprint, by the end you will have the book you need. The book sprint methodology was created by adam hyde and floss manuals to dramatically accelerate the production of manuals for open source software. Documentationoperatorsbooksprintproposal openstack. Rachel baker, david berry, mark brokering, michael dieter, amanda french, barbara ruhling facilitated by. Thanks to the nononsense examples given in this book, it is now much less daunting for beginners to learn than i had previously imagined. Its a vid of the vmware team that collaborated during a book sprint to write a manual on one of their products. Adam hyde is the man behind the floss manuals, booktype and the socalled book sprints.
We spent 5 days outside of berlin updating the book we first created in a sprint in 2008. Many thing have changed since then, so we will now. Anne gentle and adam hyde organised the sugar book sprint in austin, texas, for sugar and olpc. The method of book sprints or how to create a book in. New aesthetic, new anxieties, the booksprint wired. The team to which i was assigned, kde, took nearly two, and part way through adam came in to tell us to stop because we had enough topics for three. The term book sprint was coined by tomas krag and the book sprint method was founded by adam hyde. Join the book sprint and help author a new text free.
There is no preproduction and the group is guided by a facilitator from zero to published book. New aesthetic, new anxieties v2 lab for the unstable media. A book sprint, much like the agile sprint term, is intensive collaborative authoring in a weeks time. On the first day of the sprint, adam hyde walked the team through the sprint process. Tomas conceived of book production as a collaborative activity involving substantial donations of volunteer time. A book sprint brings together a group to produce a book in 35 days. He is also very well known for his facilitation skills having founded book sprints and the workflow sprint method for optimizing publishing workflows.
Web artist and floss manuals founder adam hyde turned the rough idea of a book sprint into a systematic method, defining and refining the process in the course of many book sprints, and turning the book sprint into a timeboxed event of at most a single week. It was a re sprint if you like and was extremely successful. During the festival, i worked around the clock in a berlin hotel room with five other writers and one programmer to write a book about the future of free collaboration. Tomas pioneered the development of the book sprint as a 34 month production cycle, while adam hyde, founder of floss manuals, was keen to continue with. Authoring books online seems to bring two apparently opposing dynamics into play the social web and the author. He also founded the book sprint methodology and is the most experienced book sprint facilitator around. I just finished facilitating a book sprint about circumvention called how to bypass internet censorship. The first book sprint in 2014 produced the troubleshooting ciscos application centric infrastructure aci. You can also send text contributions directly to adam hyde.
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