Book sprint

[7] Wireless network expert Tomas Krag recognized the need for a single, authoritative, online, freely licensed book on the topic of developing wireless internet infrastructure in Africa and other developing countries that could be translated into multiple languages, but he was unwilling to write the book himself using traditional methods.

After learning from Tomas Krag about his initial "book sprint" effort, Hyde recognized the potential of the method, especially for producing Free/Libre/Open Source Software help manuals and handbooks.

[10] Since then, book sprints have been held on a wide range of topics, including art, education,[11] governance,[12] science,[13] and software.

[5][14] According to Hyde, book sprints are best when run by a trained facilitator and using the right kind of collaborative writing software.

In general, the books are distributed freely, and the main resources are not generated from sales but through sponsors or crowdfunding platforms, for example.

Over 5 days in mid January 2010 the Transmediale festival locked 6 writers and 1 programmer in a Berlin hotel room to collaboratively write a book about the future of free collaboration; the authors started with only the title, Collaborative Futures , and ended the week with a book. [ 1 ]