Open Bible Stories

a visual mini-Bible in any language,
in text, audio, and video,
for free.

openbiblestories.com

Open Bible Stories

technical framework

“open” core
overview

missiological foundation


overview
context content
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rise of the global ●
a visual mini-Bible
church ●
provides “big picture”
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immense need for Biblical knowledge
discipleship resources ●
today (no obstacles)
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for free (open
collaboration + cognitive
surplus)


Open Bible Stories

overview



people & languages meeting the need
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~7,000 languages ●
overview of the Bible:
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most languages have Old + New Testaments
<10,000 speakers ●
content as text + audio
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~95% of world speaks + video
~5% of languages ●
for every people group
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oral communicators ●
in any language


Open Bible Stories

“open” core
overview



the “open” core
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open content
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open collaboration
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open source


open content
what is “open”?
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“open” is binary, yes/no, pass/fail (not on a spectrum)
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open = “no one ever needs to ask permission to do
anything with it.”
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is this scary?


open content is extensible
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translation
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remixing
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repurposing
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redistribution


open content requires open-licenses
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
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share + remix + make
commercial use of
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two conditions:
attribution + share
alike

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/


open content is freely redistributable
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by anyone
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using any means
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especially offline (side-loading)
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funding model = independent of analytics


open collaboration
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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.”
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built on (but different from) crowd-sourcing
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“closed” projects may incorporate crowd-sourced
elements
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open collaboration: entire project depends on “the
crowd”

open collaboration
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why?
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translation into 1000's of languages
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redistribution to billions of people


open source
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100% open source software
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nothing proprietary/restricted


Open Bible Stories is
of, by & for the global church


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.


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

video clip

text → audio
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translations This is how the beginning of everything happened. God
created the universe and everything in it in six days. At
recorded as first, the earth was dark and empty, and nothing had
been formed in it. But God's Spirit was there over the
audio water.
text

audio
recording


automatic video render
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web-based, API-accessible
●
upload audio clips video clip
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measures length of audio
+
clip (seconds)
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dynamically adjusts video audio
clip speed recording
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concatenate clips =
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render master HD
translated
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downsample to mobile video
video formats


big picture


translation of content
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online/offline
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massively distributed
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crowd-sourced, “wiki”
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revision controlled
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http://door43.org


thechristiancommons.com
tim@distantshoresmedia.org — @psalm971

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