BookSprint
Here’s the BookSprint Big Idea: a group of people collaborate to quickly write a book using Wiki technology.
You can “blame” Tomas Krag of The Wireless Roadshow (an exciting project in its own right) for this clever invention.
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I’m currently in London at a hacker conference writing an open book about wireless networks in the developing world. I’m not actually writing the book, I just gathered the right people in one room, and in the amazing space of 4 days we’ve gone from vague idea to pretty well fleshed-out outline with a few chapters already written for good measure.We’re calling the model a BookSprint, even though it’ll take us at least a month after the event to complete the writing and edit the book, but the intriguing thing about this is that we may have solved exactly the problem that you elude too, by gathering consesus about an outline and a vision. Instead of a large 300-page blob of text we’ve essentially converted this project into a about 20 independent articles, and some concerted editing to make it all read like a book….
[via Ethan Zuckerman]