 Hi, I'm Sam, and I make free culture videos using free software about open everything. And I want to talk to you about a project that has been kind of in the works for a long time and I'm just starting to actually do something with it right now. And basically it's a practical use case for open sourcing animation, particularly for activism or for education. So this Project in Start project is what kind of kicked it off. Project in Start is the Freedom of Information website in Germany where you can automate Freedom of Information requests and it will publish everything, it will handle all the complicated legalese and things like that. And so I made a video for them kind of explaining what Freedom of Information is and how the website works. And I'll just play that in the background while I'm talking. It's in German so I won't play it with sound. Sorry to the quarter of the crowd that are German speaking. So I made this my first animation that I ever made so don't judge me on it. But the idea when I was kind of starting this, I did the first starting point you make with, or I make with any creative process which is basically whose ideas can I steal. And so I went and had a look to see what other kind of ways people have presented Freedom of Information, how other sites around the world have done it. And there are about 20, 30 different Freedom of Information websites that work exactly like Project in Start and none of them have a video. I think now one or two of them might. But I saw that as kind of a somewhat disappointing because it's quite important that people understand what Freedom of Information is and how it works. And so I thought once I made this, I made this with SYNFIG. All of the files for SYNFIG are text-based XML and so I decided to open source them and basically make it possible for other websites around the world to be able to take this website, take this video and personalize it. So rather than just having one generic kind of international video that's one size fits all, instead use the idea where basically you can kind of take out the image of the Reichstag and put it in the House of Commons or your local kind of equivalence and be able to make something that actually feels like it's from one particular place. And so what I'm interested in now is how you kind of take this approach and what other purposes are there that could use this kind of approach. So I think that Freedom of Information is one of potentially many different concepts where you have individual local groups that are all struggling with the same basic issue but they need to present things in their own language to their own culture with their own kind of visual cultural identity as well. And so right now I'm working with Open Knowledge Foundation in Sweden to, well, they're basically doing all the work. I'm just helping them out on IRC every so often. And they are adjusting it for the Swedish one. And so basically I've just got all the files on, you can see the list of all the different FOI portals all around the world. So just for this idea alone, there's a lot of potential use cases. And the files themselves, everything from the SVGs from Escape and the SIF files from Synfig are all text-based other than a few texture files which are PNG. So it's all lightweight in terms of animation, but there's still kind of 200 megabyte text files. And it's not very visually attractive either. So maybe Julian, once you've worked out how to do, kind of, get for changes in images over time, you can sort out, get for changes in images over time, over time. That would be quite useful. And so just to give you an idea of how this works, here's the British version. What do they know? And it works in exactly the same way, no website. I'm sorry, no video. And so this morning, just when I decided to give a lightning talk, I would just mock up a quick example of that. So there's the original German version, just a little two-second slot with the kind of classic German yellow post-box and the German like parliamentary Bundesadler and everything like that. And so the idea is to just replace all of those little elements with British things. So obviously, if I had had more time, I would have done a proper British post-box and everything like that. But the idea is to just take things and make them seem kind of natural and part of the everyday culture. So I think that this can be used for educational concepts and for activism of various kinds. And I'd like to start basically developing a workflow for this, but also trying to work out how you can actually arrange this socially, like how you build a community around this idea, how can you actually convince people, A, that they should do something like this, how they can work with other activists who they might not be in direct contact with all of the time, and how you can get them working with these tools as well because a lot of these things are new for people and so it's going to take quite a lot of kind of experimentation, finding the right people, the right communities, the right ideas and the right technical workflows as well. SYNFIG is good to start off with. It's not the easiest thing, but it is quite capable of everything that I need to do right now. But I'd like to move away from this more kind of manual slotting in things like in a layered kind of manual way and automate a lot more of that and also maybe get away from the idea of making an animation, rendering it to video and uploading that and basically keep it more within pure victim graphics as well at a later date. But yeah, first the social issue, then the technical issue. I'm around the whole weekend and so I'd love to talk with you guys more about this if anyone wants to and yeah, get in touch.