Experimental Publishing Compendium

Book

Basic Internet Security

Typology category

computational

URL

http://basicinternetsecurity.org/

Author

FLOSS Manuals

Publication year

2011

Experimental aspects:

A collaboratively-produced book written in a Book Sprint by members of FLOSS Manuals, an open and voluntary organisation of approx. 3000 members. The book was forked to form part of The CryptoParty Handbook.

Tools

Booktype

Free and open source software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books as PDF, ePub, mobi, and HTML.

(No longer maintained)

Practices

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...