An Open Web - new collaborative book launched

An Open Web – book avai­la­ble online

http://open­web.floss­ma­nu­als.net





The Web was meant to be Everyt­hing. As the Inter­net as a whole assu­mes

an incre­a­singly comman­ding role as the tech­no­logy of global commerce and

commu­ni­ca­tion, the World Wide Web from its very incep­tion was desig­ned

to be a free and open medium through which human know­ledge is crea­ted,

acces­sed and exchan­ged. But, that Web is in danger of coming to a close.

This book shows what is happe­ning and how you can play an impor­tant role

in keeping the web open.



An Open Web was writ­ten in 5 days by 6 colla­bo­ra­tors. Zero to book in 5

days. It was an inten­sive process and loads of fun. The colla­bo­ra­tors

met 9am Monday with no more text writ­ten than the title and 5 days later

publis­hed the book. This process is known as a 'Book Sprint’ is an

inten­sive and inno­va­tive metho­do­logy for the rapid deve­lop­ment of books

saw five people locked in a room in Berlin’s CHB for five days to

produce a book with the sole guiding meme being the title – An Open Web.

They had to create the concept, write the book, and output it to print

in 5 days.



An Open Web was writ­ten by Alejan­dra Perez Nuñez (Chile), Chris­top­her

Adams (USA), Bassel Safadi (Syria), Mick Fuzz (UK), Jon Phillips (USA),

and Miche­lle Thorne (DE) with Sprint Faci­li­ta­tion by Adam Hyde (NZ).



The process opened up a new and networ­ked discus­sion focu­sing on a new

voca­bu­lary about the Open Web. As the trans­me­di­ale.11 publi­ca­tion the

Book Sprint was based on an idea by Adam Hyde and Step­hen Kovats to

enact the festi­vals inves­ti­ga­tion of this theme.



This web is not only about the Open Web but it was made by the Open Web.

Open Web publis­hing at its best – writ­ten in 100% free soft­ware and open

for anyone to contri­bute – inclu­ding YOU. You can improve the book and

and keep it alive! All contri­bu­ti­ons are welcome!

http://booki.floss­ma­nu­als.net



You can also read the book online, down­load the free EPUB (for mobile

devi­ces and erea­ders) and buy the beau­ti­ful paper book. All avai­la­ble

from :

http://open­web.floss­ma­nu­als.net





The Book Sprint crew would like to acknow­ledge and deeply thank Step­hen

Kovats without which this sprint would not have happe­ned. Also many

thanks to :

The CHB, Alek­san­dar Erka­lo­vic, Barry Threw, and Mike Links­vayer.





An Open Web avai­la­ble NOW : http://open­web.floss­ma­nu­als.net





For Infor­ma­tion about the Free Soft­ware plat­form this book was writ­ten

with please see:

http://blog.booki.cc





The Book Sprint was held in Berlin Janu­ary 17–21 2011, spon­so­red by

Trans­me­di­ale and FLOSS Manu­als and the CHB.

http://trans­me­di­ale.de

http://www.hunga­ri­cum.de

http://www.floss­ma­nu­als.net



all enqui­ries to:

Adam Hyde adamfloss­ma­nu­als [ punto ] net (adam[at]floss­ma­nu­als[dot]net)