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

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

2. openbiblestories.com

3. Open Bible Stories technical framework “open” core overview missiological foundation

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

5. demo

6. Open Bible Stories overview missiological foundation

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

8. Open Bible Stories “open” core overview missiological foundation

9. the “open” core • open content • open collaboration • open source

10. 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?

11. open content is extensible • translation • remixing • repurposing • redistribution

12. 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/

13. open content isfreely redistributable • by anyone • using any means • especially offline (side-loading) • funding model = independent of analytics

14. 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”

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

16. open source • 100% open source software • nothing proprietary/restricted

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

18. Open Bible Stories technical framework “open” core overview missiological foundation

19. 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. technical framework image +text=1 segment

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

21. 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 text → audio • translations recorded as audio

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

23. big picture

24. translation of content • online/offline • massively distributed • crowd-sourced, “wiki” • revision controlled

25. thechristiancommons.com tim@distantshoresmedia.org — @psalm971