The goal is to publish the first book on 'unconferences'. This book will be collaboratively authored by over 100 authors from at least 10 different countries.

Summary description

Inspite of Unconferences being hugely popular worldwide it is surprising that not a single book exists in the market about unconferences. The goal is to fill that void.

Detailed description

Unconferences are the epitome of sharing knowledge. It stands for what creative commons and icommons stands for.

An unconference is an event where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance. To date, the term is primarily in use in the geek community.

A bunch of passionate people from various countries have participated and organized unconferences like BarCamps, WikiCamps, PodCamps, BlogCamps and decided that if anyone should write the book, it should be the community itself.

Thus was born the dream of authoring a collaborative book written entirely on a wiki. The book is titled "Unconference: Because The Audience Is More Intelligent Than The Speaker"

Category

Education

Project end date

20/10/2007 (322 days ago)

Creation date

30/7/2007 20:03

Development stage

deployment

city

Chennai

country

India

Other countries

Argentina Canada Germany India New Zealand Philippines Singapore South Africa Sweden United Kingdom United States 

Main Language

English

Node Admin

Kiruba Shankar

Number of people involved

4

External URL

www.unconference.info

tags: Chennai India education unconference book community

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