a visual mini-Bible in any language,

in text, audio, and video,

for free.

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Open Bible Stories

technical framework

overview

open core

missiological foundation
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overview
context

rise of the global

church
immense need for
discipleship resources

content

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a visual mini-Bible
provides big picture
Biblical knowledge
today (no obstacles)
for free (open
collaboration + cognitive
surplus)

demo

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Open Bible Stories

overview

missiological foundation
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missiological foundation
people & languages

~7,000 languages
most languages have
<10,000 speakers
~95% of world speaks
~5% of languages
oral communicators

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meeting the need

overview of the Bible:

Old + New Testaments
content as text + audio
+ video

for every people group

in any language

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overview

open core

missiological foundation
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the open core

open content

open collaboration

open source

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open content
what is open?

open is binary, yes/no, pass/fail (not on a spectrum)

open = no one ever needs to ask permission to do
anything with it.
is this scary?

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open content is extensible

translation

remixing

repurposing

redistribution

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open content requires open-licenses

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike

share + remix + make

commercial use of
two conditions:
attribution + share
alike

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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open content is freely redistributable

by anyone

using any means

especially offline (side-loading)

funding model = independent of analytics

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open collaboration

what is open collaboration?

...encourages and depends on contributions of
self-selecting individuals or entities who are not
formally associated (such as project staff and partners)
with the particular cause or initiative.

built on (but different from) crowd-sourcing

closed projects may incorporate crowd-sourced

elements
open collaboration: entire project depends on the
crowd

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open collaboration

why?

translation into 1000's of languages

redistribution to billions of people

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open source

100% open source software

nothing proprietary/restricted

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Open Bible Stories is

of, by & for the global church

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Open Bible Stories

technical framework

overview

open core

missiological foundation
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technical framework
image
+
text
=
1 segment

This is how the beginning of everything happened. God

created the universe and everything in it in six days. At
first, the earth was dark and empty, and nothing had
been formed in it. But God's Spirit was there over the
water.
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image video clip

images
pre-rendered
as video clips
2.5D, pan &
zoom
image

video clip
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text audio

translations
recorded as
audio

This is how the beginning of everything happened. God

created the universe and everything in it in six days. At
first, the earth was dark and empty, and nothing had
been formed in it. But God's Spirit was there over the
water.

text

audio
recording

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automatic video render

web-based, API-accessible

upload audio clips

measures length of audio

clip (seconds)

dynamically adjusts video

clip speed

audio
recording

concatenate clips

render master HD

video clip

downsample to mobile
video formats

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=
translated
video

big picture

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translation of content

online/offline

massively distributed

crowd-sourced, wiki

revision controlled

http://door43.org

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