[FM Discuss] collaborative futures Book Sprint

[adam hyde]

so...tomorrow is our first book sprint trying to produce a more
'speculative narrative' than usual...most sprints we have had so far,
with the possible exception of the GSoC Mentoring Guide have been about
procedural documentation...coming up this week we really take the plunge
into new book sprint space...

whats the title? Easy, its called 'Collaborative Futures'. Whats it
about? No idea...ask me tomorrow (Monday) at the end of the day, I hope
to know then...we start tomorrow 12oo Berlin time with workshopping the
content, target audience, scope, index...we will, unlike previous
sprints, spend all day doing this....then we write....soooooooooo....be
prepared! it would be great to have remote participation, not only
because this is going to be quite a challenge, but also because we will
be using Booki for the first time in a Book Sprint....

this sprint is part of the Transmediale festival
(www.transmediale.de)...for more info keep an eye on the front page of
booki.cc and also watch this list...

heres some info on the onsite participants:



Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist from
Tel-Aviv, based in NY. His work explores media in public space and the
public space in media. In his creative research he focuses on the
perception of territory and borders and the way they are shaped through
politics, culture, networks and the World Wide Web. He is the co-founder
of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; ShiftSpace.org – an open source
layer above any website; YouAreNotHere.org – a dislocative tourism
agency; Kriegspiel – a computer game based on Guy Debord’s Game of War;
and the Tel Aviv node of the Upgrade international network. Mushon is an
honorary resident at Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York.
He teaches new media research at NYU and open source design at Parsons
the New School of Design.

Mike Linksvayer is Vice President at Creative Commons, where he started
as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi, an early open data/open
content/mass collaboration service, and worked as a web developer and
software engineer. In 1993 he published one of the first interviews with
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. He is a co-founder and currently
active in Autonomo.us, which investigates and works to further the role
of free software, culture, and data in an era of software-as-a-service
and cloud computing. His chapter on "Free Culture in Relation to
Software Freedom" was published in FREE BEER, a book written by speakers
at FSCONS 2008. Linksvayer holds a degree from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in economics, a field which continues to
strongly inform his approach. He lives in Oakland, California.

Michael Mandiberg is known for selling all of his possessions online on
Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on
AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the
real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com. His
current projects include the co-authored groundbreaking Creative Commons
licensed textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design that
teaches Bauhaus visual principles through design software,
HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial
and carbon cost of driving, and Bright Bike, a retro-reflective bicycle
treehugger.com praised as “obnoxiously bright.” He is a Senior Fellow at
Eyebeam, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten
Island/CUNY. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His
work lives at Mandiberg.com.

Aleksandar Erkalovic is reknown internationally in the new media arts
and activist circles for the software he has developed. He used to work
in Multimedia institute in Croatia, where he was the lead developer of a
popular NGO web publishing system (TamTam), Aleksander has a broad
spectrum of programming experience having worked on many projects from
multiplayer games, library software, financial applications, artistic
projects, web site analysis applications, and building systems for
managing domain registration. Aleksander was for a long time the sole
programmer for FLOSS Manuals and is now leading the development
(together with Adam Hyde and Douglas Bagnall) of a new GPL publishing
platform called 'booki'. Aleksanders new media artistic collaborations,
as well as being extensively exhibited internationally, have won many
awards. Aleksander also organises creative and educative workshops
directed to young people, experts, and amateurs that are interested in
the software he has developed and free software in general. He is
currently also employed by Informix in Zagreb, Croatia.

Marta Peirano writes about culture, science and technology for the
Spanish media, encompassing newspapers, online journals and printed
magazines. She is a long term contributor and founder of the online
media arts journal Elástico and is the author of La Petite Claudine, a
widely read blog in the Spanish language about art, literature, free
culture, pornography (and everything in between). In 2003 and 2004 she
directed the Copyfight Festivals in Spain (CCCB, Santa Mónica) with her
collective Elástico, a symposium and exhibition that investigated
alternative models of intellectual property. Marta has given numerous
lectures and workshops on free culture, digital publishing tools and
journalism at festivals and universities. She recently published El
Rival de Prometeo, a book about Automatas and the engineering of the
Enlightenment. She currently lives in Berlin and is working on a second
book.

Alan Toner; born in Dublin, studied law in Trinity College Dublin and
NYU Law School, where he was later a fellow in the Information Law
Institute and the Engelberg Center on Law and Innovation. His researched
is focused on the  countervailing impact of peer processes and
information enclosure on cultural production and social life. In 2003 he
worked on the grassroots campaign We Seize! challenging the UN World
Summit on the Information Society, and has participated extensively in
grassroots media and information freedom movements. Since 2006 he has
also worked in documentary film, including co-writing and co-producing
Steal This Film 2 (2007). In 2008 he co-created the archival site
http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/ Currently writing a book on the
history of economic and technological control in the film industry.
Sometimes found near Alexanderplatz,  
and at http://knowfuture.wordpress.com.

Adam Hyde was for many years a digital artist primarily exploring
digital-analog hybrid broadcast systems. These projects included The
Frequency Clock, Polar Radio, Radio-Astronomy, net.congestion, re:mote,
Free Radio Linux, Wifio, Paper Cup Telephone Network, Mobicasting,
Silent TV and others. Many of these projects have won awards and have
been extensively exhibited internationally. Since returning from a
residency in Antartica in 2007 Adam founded FLOSS Manuals and has been
focused on increasing the quantity and quality of free documentation
about free software through FLOSS Manuals, exploring emerging
methodologies for collaborative book production (Book Sprints), and
developing a new type of collaborative authoring and publishing platform
(Booki). Adam has facilitated over 16 Book Sprints, is also the
co-founder (with Eric Kluitenberg) of the forthcoming Electrosmog
Festival for Sustainable Immobility and facilitator of the forthcoming
Artic Perspectives technology cahier.



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