hi, <br><br>I am producing a documentary movie called the Digital Tipping
Point about how Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is changing global culture. I have been mostly lurking on this list for a while, because we are using all FOSS tools for our project.<br><br>I
am wondering if there is anyone on this list who is making active use of FOSS audio tools in the San Francisco Bay Area. If so, I would like to interview that person on film for the DTP project. <br><br>We are
building the DTP out of fully forkable footage here on the Internet
Archive. Link below. (Forkable here means that you can both copy the
footage and create a derivative work). <br><br>Our
idea is that we want to produce a movie-in-a-box for people with really
low end systems who would like to get decent interview footage to
include in their own little movies about why FOSS is cool, and how it
is going to change their lives. <br><br>We
have filmed many
dignitaries such
as Christian Ude (the Mayor of Munich), Hermann-Josef Pelgrim (the
Mayor of Schwaebisch Hall), Gilberto Gil (the Culture Minister of
Brazil), and Luiz Millan Vazquez de Miguel, (the Extremaduran Minister
of Science, Education). The theme of our film is that Free Open Source
Software (FOSS) will help
foster an explosion of literacy and creativity globally. Our film is
the first feature length documentary to be built on-line out of fully
forkable footage released under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike
license on the Internet Archive. <br><br>We
have 55 hours so far loaded onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping
Point Video Collection. You can see our raw video here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint" target="_blank">
http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint</a><br>
<br>That footage is raw footage, and will need to be re-rendered before
it is used in any final project. It is also much more poorly lighted
than you are used to, and the audio is also only on one channel, to
reduce overhead. Also, frankly we are simple end users who are hoping to prove that yes, GNU Linux is simple enough that even a knucklehead like me can make a full-length movie using it! Plus, one of our video editors is 80 years old. Talk about your grandpa using FOSS ! We have been to 5 nations and 3 continents on a shoe
string budget, and so we didn't have the resources to drag lighting
equipment along. We shot everything with a Sony PD-170, which is a
decent pro-sumer piece of equipment. <br>
<br>
Our <span><span>keyword search <span name="st"><span name="st"><span name="st"><span><span><span><span class="nfakPe">index</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> page is located
below. It is the place to go to find specific persons or themes for
our footage. The Internet Archive is currently changing its search software, and so the <span class="nfakPe">index</span> might not be operational again until Monday, December 10, 2007. Here is the <span class="nfakPe">
index</span> page nonetheless:<br></span></span><span><span>
<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc" target="_blank">http://<span name="st"><span name="st"><span name="st"><span name="st">
<span name="st"><span><span><span><span class="nfakPe">tinyurl</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.com/yluwoc</a></span></span><br clear="all"><br>The
theme of our film is that the US is falling behind in certain
technological areas due to its dependence on Microsoft and other
proprietary code in areas where FOSS is ready for production on the
desktop
and elsewhere. We are going to contrast our experiences in seeing the
status of FOSS desktop development we found outside the US with our
experiences here in the US in trying to migrate just one public middle
school to FOSS.<br><br>Thank you either way for considering our request.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Christian Einfeldt,<br>Producer, The Digital Tipping Point