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Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00 AM

Join our crew! The Digital Tipping Point is looking for animators, video editors, and graphic artists who are passionate about the wonderful things that Free Open Source Software is doing for humanity. If you would like to help tell that story, please feel free to email producer Christian Einfeldt at

Crew of the DTP film project:

These are the crew members of the Digital Tipping Point film. The DTP is a film by the open source community, for the open source community. As Dan Gillmor said in his recent book, We the Media, the former audience has become the reporters, the editors, and even the stars of the media, as in the case of YouTubers. Gone are the days of passive consumption of media. The former audience is now helping to shape the dialog. So thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of members of the greater open source and free software communities who have made this film possible. Thanks also to these individuals for their work: To see photos of some of our really cool crew, please click here. To see the photos of individual crew members, click on the link for their names.

Adam Doxtater is the mad genius who founded MadPenguin.org, a site which has been frequently slashdotted (syndicated), and subsequently sold in August of 2006. Adam created the original DTP website and designed the original DTP logo. Adam is one of the sys admins for our site, and works closedly with Margaret Aranyosi to keep our systems up. Adam is also a talented guitarist. You can hear Adam shredding his guitar here and joking with Stephen Wesley. You gotta listen to that clip just to hear Adam say, "Dude, do me a favor, don't ever do that again!" at the end. Adam is also the owner of ShredGuitars .com; the author of two books on the hardcore Slackware GNU Linux operating system; and co-founder with Narayan Newton of The Slackware Handbook for which he was slashdotted here. The secret to getting Adam's attention? Two words: buffalo wings.

Jonathan Grindstaff is our a professional programmer who works with us in two capacities, as Project Manager, and Video Technical Lead. Jonathan says that his most exciting programming job before coming to the DTP was a project in Chapeltown, Sheffield at the now defunct South Yorkshire Trading Standards Unit, where he was threatened by the Standards Officer and General Manager with being held in custody if he tried to leave England without finishing his projects. Jonathan's work for the DTP includes developing the BASH scripts that permit us to automate the management of our 13 terabytes of digital video files, and the loading of those files onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. Jonathan has also done the rough editing for 95% of the video posted on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. Perhaps the most important aspect of Jonathan's work, though, is creating the organizational proceedures for managing our extensive video library. Coordinating 13 terabytes of data is a complex logistical problem, because it requires lots of people to cooperate in accessing and modifying that data, and it is Jonathan's brilliant organizational skills that have kept our team on the same page as we share this vast pool of information.

Margaret Aranyosi is the Lead Web Designer for the Digital Tipping Point. She and her partner, Justin LaBarge, are the artists who have built our new DTP website, which you are currently viewing. We first met Margaret when she was the Executive Director of KITE, Inc., an organization dedicated to bringing technology to NGOs in developing nations. We filmed her in 2005, from which this still was taken. We caught up with her 18 months later to find out that she had started her own web design business, and we were thrilled when she expressed an interested in leading our web marketing efforts. Margaret is a fluent translator of several human and machine languages who seamlessly integrates communications into the technology which supports them. Margaret believes that the whole reason technology exists is to support and enhance communication ? to make work easier and to bring people closer together. She creates elegant systems that are universally intuitive and comfortable to use. Her philosophy also inspires her to reach out in volunteer work to support international understanding through Internet communications.

Dorothee Weiler is the co-producer of the DTP, and the creative genius who suggested the film. She has also transcribed some audio snips from interviews from Comdex, 2004, including Solveig Haugland, Adam Doxtater, and Ben Horst. She is also coordinating the transcription and translation of the audio files into written transcriptions.

Christian Einfeldt is the producer of the DTP.; All the mistakes here on this website and in the film are his fault. Heh.

Javier Galicia is the Spanish-language evangelist for the Digital Tipping Point. A bit about Javier in English: Javier is the co-founder of GPL: Linux Users Group Puebla - Mexico; DevNote.com.mx founder, with the purpose of generating new developers, transcribing and shortening in reference manuals to accelerate collaboration in Spanish speaking countries; Small contribution to Debian and participation in the team co-maintenance of packages in Debian Games; Computer Science Engineering Student, entrepreneur and addicted to the information that revolves around Free and Open Source Software. Spanish: Co-fundador de GLP: Grupo de Usuarios Linux Puebla - México; DevNote.com.mx founder con el objetivo de generar nuevos desarrolladores, transcribiendo y acortando manuales de referencia para acelerar la colaboración en países de habla hispana; Pequeña aportación a Debian y participación en el equipo de co-mantenimiento de paquetes en Debian Games; Emprendedor y adicto a la información que gira alrededor del Software Libre y Código Abierto.

Holden Aust is the spiritual godfather of the DTP. It was he who first introduced Producer Christian Einfeldt to free open source software. He built Christian's GNU Linux computer out of parts, and has recently built two other powerful machines for the DTP crew. Christian promised to pay Holden's good deeds forward by telling other people about FOSS, and this film project was the outgrowth of that promise. Holden is also a media watcher. He feeds breaking stories to Christian, who does the data entry for the Tipping Points news bulletins.

Daniel Gimpelevich is a Linux consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area who is frequently called upon to solve technical problems that stump others. Daniel has an encyclopedic knowledge of some of the more arcane aspects of hardware and software, for GNU/Linux, the Mac, and Windows, but with a particular focus on solving otherwise seemingly intractable problems for GNU/Linux. For example, he and Holden Aust collaborated to build the DTP's 16 terabyte rendering computer, which is a task that was simply beyond many seasoned GNU/Linux engineers.

Nadezda Karuna Potter is a creative direction consultant. She is a documentary filmmaker based in Oakland, California. Born in Moldova and raised in Israel, Karuna arrived in America during her college years. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's Degree in Cinema from San Francisco State in 2005, and has been producing work of her own since then. Through her independent production company, Digital KRI Media Consulting (www.myspace.com/digitalkri), Karuna recently directed and released, Tarapith, a short documentary giving a rare first-hand look at one of Tantric India's most sacred sites. Tarapith premiered at the Conscious Film Festival in February 2007 in Los Angeles. In her film work, Karuna is currently focused on promoting environmental and social issues. Her social film pursuits have led her to consulting with the Digital Tipping Point crew on film theory. For more information about Karuna and her work please visit her MySpace page> or email her at

Paul Donahue has logged thousands and thousands of miles of travel for the DTP film project. He did a marvelous job of framing shots from Germany to Spain, Brazil, and Scotland; and he encouraged an early focus on documenting the culture impact of the global shift to Free Open Source Software (FOSS), and he also emphasized early on the need to document the limits of the FOSS revolution.

Lars Nooden is the digital tipping point newswatcher. He has collected lots and lots of links of news clips of past digital tipping points. Lars is also a monster audio transcriber. Heh.

Jim Stockford is one or our premier transcribers. You can download a text document containing an example of one of his very excellent transcriptions here. You can dowload more examples Jim Stockford's transcripts of Mandriva CEO Jean Francois Boncihlon here and here.

Linda Worthington is a transcriber. She is also a contributor to the OOoAuthors project, which is a sister project to the main OpenOffice.org office productivity suite project.
Justine Wolitzer is a transcriber who came to us from the community at large.

Diane Mackay is a transcriber. She was the first community member to finish transcribing an audio snip into OpenOffice.org Writer format That was a huge huge milestone in the project, because the written transcripts form the basis for sewing the video together in a coherent fashion. Diane Mackay is also famous for having assembled one of the best lists of documentation sources for OpenOffice.org.

Danese Cooper is our open source diva. Without her, Christian never would have known of Clayton Christensen, Larry Lessig, Dan Gillmor, Bhaskar Chakravorti, or Doc Searls, whose ideas are the foundation of the film. She is also formerly Sun Microsystems' open source diva, and is now open source diva at Intel. No joke. That's her job title.

Dominik Hierl is a German translator who assisted with the interview of the Mayor of Munich, Christian Ude. He also provided technical support with Linux installation issues.

Ben Horst is another website guru for the DTP, and filmed our interview of Doc Searls and other interesting folks at the Desktop Linux Summit 2004 in San Diego. Ben is also the moving force behind SolidOffice, a blog on Office productivity software, and the author of the book, A Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org.

Sky Christopherson did some excellent camera work in Southern California interviews. He shot Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire; Charles Kahlil, the IT lead for the City of Garden Grove, CA; Ken Wyrick, IT lead for several LA non-profits; and Ricardo Mireles, IT lead for several Latino community organizations in LA. Sky is also heading up his own video production studio, Amorgen. Sky is also a former Olympic bicyclist for the US! Sky's wife, Tamara, is also an Olympic kayaker!

Justin Flint is part of Sky's team at Amorgen, and he also did some excellent camera work for us in San Diego. Justin is a former Olympic shotgun shooter for the US. Meeting these Olympians has been one of the most exciting aspects of filming for me. It is very evident in their character that they have reached very deep inside themselves to find the strength to endure the unimaginable physical strains of Olympic sports.

Josh Berkus provided networking help, as well as bringing Christian up to speed on intricacies of free open source software.

Rufus Laggren provided Christian with the single most critical piece of information for migrating from one operating system to another: "Keep it simple and start small."

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