Bo Arne Leuf (July 9, 1952 – April 24, 2009) was

co-author Collaborative writing, or collabwriting is a method of group work that takes place in the workplace and in the classroom. Researchers expand the idea of collaborative writing beyond groups working together to complete a writing task. Collaboration ...

of the book '' The Wiki Way'' (2001), written in collaboration with

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inventor Ward Cunningham. His book ''Peer To Peer'' (2002) discusses different

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer ...

(P2P) solutions both from a technical and legal point of view. Bo Leuf lived in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was a candidate for the Pirate Party in the Swedish general election in 2006 and was also on its board as

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. In 1971, he came from Västernorrland to Gothenburg to study engineering physics at Chalmers University. In 1979, he opened a book shop called Wizard in Gothenburg. Later, when he moved to

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in 1992, he opened a new shop, this time under the name of Daggshimmer. At this time in Malmö, he also helped his wife and mother-in-law to run the Demaret's School of Languages, a former Berlitz language school still using the same teaching method. He got married on June 2, 1984 and had two children. He died of cancer on April 24, 2009.http://zhurnaly.com/cgi-bin/wiki/Bo_Leuf%2C_R.I.P.

Publications

* Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham, ''The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web'', Addison-Wesley (April, 2001) * Bo Leuf, ''Outlook in a Nutshell: A Power User's Quick Reference'', * Bo Leuf, ''Peer to Peer: Collaborating and Sharing over the Internet'', * Bo Leuf, ''The Semantic Web: Crafting Infrastructure for Agency'', John Wiley & Sons, 2006,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leuf, Bo 1952 births 2009 deaths Swedish technology writers Swedish non-fiction writers Pirate Party (Sweden) politicians 21st-century Swedish writers 20th-century non-fiction writers