I wanted to write a quick post outlining the process of a ‘course sprint’ to share with some of the communities that I’m involved with including the P2PU, School of Open and the FLOSS Manuals community. I think this methodology can be of use to emerging groups of on-line educators creating open education resources (OERs) about Free Culture and Free Software.
At the Video 4 Change gathering one of the things I was thinking about was trying to understand of how emerging networks could best use Book Type to manage their strategy & training resources. Book Type is the software we use for the FLOSS Manuals community.
As previously reported, FLOSS Manuals was chosen to participate in a scoping study on the ‘Digital Manual’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Booktype was featured as part of this event at UCL – Working with the Page: Publishing Workshop
The Challenge: Encrypt your Email with Thunderbird
The Organizer: Mick Fuzz – volunteer with Tech Tools for Activism and media activist who has worked extensively with video and multimedia projects at community and international levels.
Sourcefabric who are working to take over from Flossmanuals on the development of Booki have put out the following video.
I was asked by Adam from Floss Manuals, if I could facilitate a workshop on Documentation for the TEH network in Bordeaux in late Oct 2011. I was keen to do it, partly because I was travelling through that part of the world in a small camper van and was happy for a break in a hotel, and partly because the idea of teaching a day long workshop on distributed and collaborative documentation was a good incentive in itself.
Great insights (incites?) as always from Andy Oram from O’Reilly this time about the difference between traditional book writing and collaborative authoring.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/wrap-up-from-floss-manuals-boo.html
There’s also some thought provoking stories on the Out of Ink project website from the Network Cultures people.http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/outofink/?cat=20
We invite you to join us on a book jog to update the WordPress manual hosted on en.flossmanuals.net – The existing one is here – http://en.flossmanuals.net/wordpress/
