Interviewed by SourceCode Berlin

Interviewed by SourceCode Berlin

Mark Fonseca Rendeiro and Wikimedia Deutschland have started an in-depth podcast about open source people and projects in Berlin! Subscribe! download! rejoice! Mark interviewed me recently about all sorts of things I’ve been up to in the last couple of years: open source in video, our experience with Open It Agency, making my own open source clothing and an introduction of our new initiative, Open Source Circular Economy Days. Download the podcast:...

Wikimedia Deutschland: Digitale Kompetenzen

Sorry, no English subtitles for this one! as part of the German government’s ‘Scientific Year 2014’ project, Wikimedia Deutschland is running a series of talks and podium discussions around the theme ‘Digital Competencies’ – this is the first edition, dealing with privacy and data security. Titles and basic animation were prepared in Inkscape and animated with Synfig, and (as usual) I used Kdenlive for editing and Audacity for sound mix. this was a two-camera gig, shot with Ash Robinson from Dollarmixbag. The music is from Broke for Free‘s new album Petal, which I’m sure I’ll be using plenty in the coming months! I made three further videos for this series- two with Ash, and one shot with Ben Mergelsberg from Wrangelfilm. Digital Natives: ein gut klingender Begriff mit wenig Substanz? Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt ‘Algorithmus is Watching For You’ – droht die ‘Filter...

Open Data Day 2014

From OpenDataDay.org: Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. This was the local Berlin Open Data Day event, organized by the wonderful people of the Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and held at Wikimedia Deutschland‘s headquarters in Kreuzberg. Check out the projects in detail here: odd14.hackdash.org Video by Sam Muirhead CC-BY Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland Made with Free / Libre / Open Source software (kdenlive.org, gimp.org, audacity.sourceforge.net/, magiclantern.fm/, ubuntu.com) Music Duck Duck Goose CC-BY Jupiter Skydive (jamendo.com/en/track/1088272/duck-duck-goose) Only Instrumental CC-BY Broke For Free...

Launch/Co Coworking in Friedrichshain

Made in collaboration with Rosa Lübbe, with music by Martin Keane. Launch/Co is a cosy, friendly co-working space in Friedrichshain, run by a great bunch of people. More...

Jugend Hackt: Young Hackers meet Open Data

Click on ‘CC’ for English subtitles! Jugend Hackt is a collaboration between Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland project in which teenagers from all over Germany came to Berlin for a weekend to build creative projects collaboratively with open data – learning how to access and work with open data, as well as advancing their programming skills and making friends along the way. jugendhackt.de Video by Sam Muirhead CC-BY Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland Musik: Break-A-Leg CC-BY RoccoW Honeys Pie CC-BY Wake Something Elated CC-BY Broke For...