International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) workshop on collaborative production.

1. Collaborative Production Workshop
IDEA
Adam Hyde
Book Sprint Facilitator, Platform Designer
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2. Collaborative Production Workshop
Founder of FLOSS Manuals
Founder of Book Sprints
Collaborative Production Platform Designer
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3. Collaborative Production Workshop
WHAT COLLABORATION LOOKS LIKE
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4. Collaborative Production Workshop
Effective collaboration is
a result of social process plus technology
The social process is more important
than the technology
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5. Collaborative Production Workshop
“A man might write the works of others, adding and changing nothing, in which case
he is simply called a 'scribe' (scriptor).
Another writes the work of others with additions which are not his own; and he is
called a 'compiler' (compilator).
Another writes both others' work and his own, but with others' work in principal
place, adding his own for purposes of explanation; and he is called a 'commentator'
(commentator)....
Another writes both his own work and others' but with his own work in principal
place adding others' for purposes of confirmation; and such a man should be called
an 'author' (auctor)”
ELIZABETH EISENSTEIN, THE PRINTING PRESS AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE (1979).
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Facilitators not editors
Contributors not authors
Phases not roles
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Concurrent not linear workflows
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Book Sprints
zero to book in 3-5 days
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9. Collaborative Production Workshop
THE TECHNOLOGY
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10. Collaborative Production Workshop
● Create in the browser
● Design in the browser
● Render from the browser
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Todays printing press is a right click in the browser
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● Paper & EPUB look the same
● WYSI
● Fast
● No need to build separate renderer
● Leverage JS, HTML, CSS
● Leverage supported file formats
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13. Collaborative Production Workshop
JS libs are already solving many problems:
● Typography – LetteringJS
● Hyphenation – Hyper
● Interactive widgets – Tangle
● Math - MathJax
● Sidebars – BookJS
●
ToC Generation – BookJS
● Cross references - BookJS
● Footnotes – BookJS
●
Indexes – BookJS
● TeX line spacing - Typeset
● Kerning - KernJS, KerningJS
● Design grids - Baseline, jMetronome, Hugrid
● Font control - Color Font, Text Align
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14. Collaborative Production Workshop
adam@booksprints.net
Adam Hyde
Book Sprint Facilitator, Platform Designer
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Clients include:
Google ospo, PLOS, World Bank, UNDP, RedHat, Open Stack, Open Oil, Mozilla, Internews Europe,
Safari Books Online, Open Knowledge Foundation, European Commission, Sourcefabric
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