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

co-author Collaborative writing is a procedure in which two or more persons work together on a text of some kind (e.g., academic papers, reports, creative writing, projects, and business proposals). It is often the norm, rather than the exception, in many ac ...

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

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. His book ''Peer To Peer'' (2002) discusses different

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(P2P) solutions both from a technical and legal point of view. Bo Leuf lived in

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. He was a candidate for the

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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.

Publications

* Bo Leuf,

, '' 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