I really appreciate that our library cannot get a copy of a recent issue of Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning without charging me for it. Turns out that our library's subscription through Academic Search Premiere only covers 1999 through 18 months ago, and they cannot find a copy through ILL.

In Together or Apart: Collaboration Models for Technical Writing, Tom Johnson reflects on using a book sprint for producing technical documentation and in community projects. This would be an interesting approach for producing an open textbook at a conference.