<div>Adam, finally we had our first "book sprint" on "collaboration". As we know this is just an "inspirational" coincidence that we both, from Peru and Germany, were thinking on writing about the same topic. As you know our reality is different so we would like to share with you our experience specially given that we did it almost at the same time but we took different roads.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To start, i would say that we never thought on writing this as a book with chapters or transversal topics. Instead, given our "innocence" in this thing of writing together we decided to use this as a documentation platform where to write our own experiences about collaboration in our particular contexts. In this sense, we call people working on very diverse areas: artists working with people after the earthquake, people working in radical poor zones on collaborative education, migration, free software, neighborhood, collaboration and development and so on. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I cannot but share with you that my feelings along the sprint were similar than yours, how are we going to do this!!! but people were so confident on doing it and the way we were facilitating the sessions that i just perseverated. I mean, they did not even understood well when i wrote the email and asked them to come for the SPRINT , (sprint??? what is sprint? they confess know they thought considering also that we speak in spanish it needed a long explanation..!!)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Well, so many things, that the title was COLLABORATION AND WORK seemed to have had something to do with the fact that everybody accepted to join our effort. We were from Friday 22 to Monday 25 but we did not spend the night at the same place together, everybody went home. Eventhough the risk, we all arrived at 9am to start writing every morning. Something unusual being sharp on time here in peru!!!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Many topics were transversal in all texts but i want to highlight one: CONFIDENCE FOR COLLABORATION.</div><div>It was clear for everyone that the lack of confidence, something not only common but considered necessary in a post armed conflict country and high corruption level. However, the amazing thing was that it was clear that because of confidence all the projects they lead are running and of course because of confidence there were in this place to share for 4 days were they really did not know anybody, not even me. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Kiko (mayorga) was facilitating all the technical issues and explaining the best ways for networking. Me, I was just focus on keeping things flowing, within and outside the texts. We also had two friends (psycologists just becuase a coincidence!!!) helping everyone with their own reflections regarding their experiences and leading them from their experiences to some common issues that we agreed should be along all the texts: project explanation, collaboration dimension in their projects, actors, best collaborative practices etc)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Finally, I just want to share with you our happiness, the result will be printed soon and probably online (if not written in video format while being read by their own authors). It was amazing that finishing the sprint we found your email sharing your own collaborative futures experience. Congratulations, great effort!!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Some pictures for you too.</div><div>abrazos</div><div>sandra </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>