Hey Mick!

Sorry, things are really messy here in Brazil - running between three
different cities, moving stuff, etc. I've read your email and left it
for later... thanks for the contribution...

As for booksprints, I see your point. So we might instead focus on
trying something before Pixelache via this very mailing list, to
coordinate texts and ideas that can eventually lead to a proper reader
or something. Then we can have one session during Pixelache (perhaps in
the second part, already in Estonia), maybe focused less on writing than
organizing contributions already collected (responding to a specific
call or else selected among the hundreds or thousands of
brico-discussions from the last couple years - or both).

Thanks again, best from Ubatuba...

efe

On 15-01-2013 20:09, m3shrom wrote:
> On 15/01/13 21:37, Brian Degger wrote:
>> Speaking of booksprint
>> http://medialab-prado.es/?lang=en
>>
>>

>>       Interactivos?'13 Tools for a Read-Write World. Call for Projects
>>       <http://medialab-prado.es/article/ilgru_call_projects>

>>
>> Medialab-Prado and The Libre Graphics Research Unit
>> <http://lgru.org/> are seeking for projects to be collaboratively
>> developed during a two-weeks workshop to be held in Madrid, 15-27
>> April, 2013. We are interested in your ideas for tools to design,
>> edit, draw and write together. This edition focuses on (re)inventing a
>> Libre Graphics workflow that supports collaboration and exchange.
>>
> There's a couple of us from FLOSS Manuals that want to get to this.
> There are quite a few in Madrid interested in setting up a FLOSS Manuals
> community in castellano. There are already quite a few manuals out there
> in castellano and it would be great to have a site to showcase them. If
> anyone on this list would be interested in collaborating on that please
> get in touch with me.
>
> In terms of Booksprints at events. I think that's a hard thing to do.
> Unless you are specifically getting together with the purpose of
> writing, and ideally have an agreed outcome, there are so many
> distractions at an event. I've been working on hybrid forms of the
> process at a couple recently. Taking inspiration from Adam Hyde's
> booksprint process but accelerating it, and having less commitment from
> the people taking part.
>
> While the process is productive, there are real limitations. My advice
> is not to set your sights too high, in short.
> However, I think it is good to experiment. And I would be up for
> collaborating on something if people were willing.
>
> The printed publication of the Book Sprint is a great incentive to work
> towards.
> It is also possible to bump that down to a course, fanzine, booklet or a
> series of linked chapters as a reader.
>
> Here are a few write ups of recent experiments.
>
> Mini-Sprint at LGRU gathering sept last year
> http://www.booki.cc/something-about-the-book-maybe/about-this-book/
>
> Course Sprint on open video - dec 2012
> www.flossmanuals.org/news/summary-open-video-coarse-sprint-process
>
> Creating a Fanzine TEH 2011
> http://www.flossmanuals.org/news/workshop-documentation-strategy-and-practice-teh-network
>
> I totally feel the tension that James mentions when facilitating these
> kinds of writing sprints. It's a really fine line between just working,
> creative work involving peer learning but ultimately it's work all the
> same, and the sense of a more experimental play and discovery without
> targets.
>
> There should be space for both right? Play, experiment and then document
> to share for the people who can't be there with you and to inspire other
> educators / learners. Yip, ideally both but doing it at an event where
> you are writing and others seem to be playing more can seem like when
> you are at school and you are doing extra work at lunch when everyone
> else is at the playground.
> There are ways around this feeling. I've got some tricks up my sleeves
> and would be well up for collaborating with other facilitators to think
> up others - :)
>
> nice one
> Mick
>
>
>
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