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

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

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

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6. openbiblestories.com missiological foundation Open Bible Stories overview

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

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

9. openbiblestories.com the “open” core ● open content ● open collaboration ● open source

10. openbiblestories.com 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. openbiblestories.com open content is extensible ● translation ● remixing ● repurposing ● redistribution

12. openbiblestories.com open content requires open- licenses ● share + remix + make commercial use of ● two conditions: attribution + share alike Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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

14. openbiblestories.com 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. openbiblestories.com open collaboration ● why? ● translation into 1000's of languages ● redistribution to billions of people

16. openbiblestories.com open source ● 100% open source software ● nothing proprietary/restricted

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

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

19. openbiblestories.com technical framework 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 + text = 1 segment

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

21. openbiblestories.com 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

22. openbiblestories.com 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 video clip + audio recording = translated video

23. openbiblestories.com big picture

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

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