Producer, Digital Tipping Point
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Free Software Admin volunteer at KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy
- Producer at Digital Tipping Point
- Principal at Law Offices of Christian J. Einfeldt
- Slashdot Contributor at Slashdot
- Prominent Digger at Digg.com
- Founding member at OpenDocument Fellowship
- Past
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- Staff Writer at Mad Penguin.org on-line magazine
- Education
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- Miami University
- San Francisco Law School
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Christian Einfeldt’s Summary
I am producing the Digital Tipping Point, a community-based open source video project that aims to do two basic things: 1) to build a coherent library of short, modular video segments which can be used to produce mulitple documentary films about how free open source software is changing our world; 2) to complete the first open source video documentary using footage from that library.
Our project is truly open source, meaning that there is "source code" that anyone can fork. Our "source code" is our footage, which is free (as in freedom) on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection, linked below. The Digital Tipping Point encourages people to join our project, rather than fork it, but our video is available in small, modular chunks. You can grab our footage and rip, mix, and burn it to your heart's content. If you disagree with the way that we are presenting the subject matter, you are free to fork us and start your own project. The right to fork is the right to own. If we are not doing a good job with our footage, you can become an "owner" of a new project.
Free open source software will change our world as profoundly as did the printing press. We encourage people to submit their own video and animation to the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection (IA DTP VC), which can be found here:
http://archive.org/details/digitaltippingpoint
Please contact Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com about how to submit footage to the IA DTP VC.
Christian Einfeldt’s Specialties:
The Digital Tipping Point will be the world's first feature-length documentary movie completed in an open source collaborative fashion based on truly forkable footage.
Christian Einfeldt’s Experience
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Free Software Admin volunteer
KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)
May 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)
I have the great fortune to support a public charter middle school in San Francisco with awesome Free Open Source Software solutions for the 200+ kids attending the school. In 2007, the school, run and founded by principal Lydia Glassie, was named as a California Distinguished School, an honor given to only 7% of California public schools. Oh, and 75% of our hard-working students come from households below federal poverty guidelines. Sixty-five percent of our students are African American; 18% are Latino; 9% are Asian; and 8% are Caucasian. These students and educators truly are dedicated to making the world a better place for all. It is a great joy to help them beat the digital divide with robust Free Open Source Software.
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Producer
Digital Tipping Point
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)
The Digital Tipping Point is an open source video project that is documenting the incredible cultural phenomenon that is Free Open Source Software. The DTP project is creating a fully forkable library of broadcast quality footage of interviews with prominent politicians, cultural icons, business leaders, and lead software developers. That library will be distilled into a "movie-in-a-box" collection of the best 7 hours of footage, which will then be distributed to our community of module directors, who will produce their own video shorts interpreting the footage. The modules will be stitched together to create a documentary. The modules, together with the library and the final documentary, will be taggable and searchable with the power of the semantic web. Think of the film as a Wikipedia page, or as a video game, both of which change over time, and are never experienced the same way twice.
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Principal
Law Offices of Christian J. Einfeldt
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Law Practice industry)
June 1997 — Present (11 years 4 months)
For more than 10 years, I have filed lawsuits on behalf of seriously injured persons to recover damages for the losses that they have sustained. I have attended numerous depositions, arbitrations, mediations, and jury trials on behalf of my clients.
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Slashdot Contributor
Slashdot
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1920 — Present (87 years 10 months)
Slashdot is the leading news magazine for the Free Open Source Software industry. If it didn't appear on Slashdot, it just wasn't important. Since December 12 of 2006, I have submitted 35 stories to Slashdot, of which 10 have been accepted for the front page. Please note, these are stories that I have posted, and does not refer to the numerous other stories that I wrote for other magazines, such as the old Mad Penguin and Linux World, of which 23 of 44 stories appeared on Digg or Slashdot, with others appearing on LXer, OSdir, and LinuxToday.
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Prominent Digger
Digg.com
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1920 — Present (87 years 11 months)
I make effective use of Digg.com to push stories relevant to Free Open Source Software. As of November 11, 2007, I have 73 fans who follow my digging activity. I have dugg 3,341 stories with an emphasis of Free Open Source Software and the companies and people who are contributing to that industry. I have a 14% promotion rate on Digg, meaning that 16 of the 112 stories that I have submitted to Digg have been promoted to the front page. My Digg profile has been viewed 8,164 times.
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Founding member
OpenDocument Fellowship
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1920 — Present (88 years)
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Staff Writer
Mad Penguin.org on-line magazine
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
January 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 8 months)
During my tenure as a Staff Writer under founding editor Adam Doxtater, 85% my articles for the old Mad Penguin were republished on some major tech news aggregator, such as Slashdot, Digg.com, LinuxToday, or LXer. I have more than one million provable click through reads from all sources.
Christian Einfeldt’s Education
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Miami University
BA, Political Science
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San Francisco Law School
JD, San Francisco Law School
Additional Information
Christian Einfeldt’s Websites:
Christian Einfeldt’s Interests:
Freedom in cyberspace.
Christian Einfeldt’s Groups:
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OpenDocument Fellowship
Christian Einfeldt’s Honors:
Digg.com story about the Digital Tipping Point:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Can_open_source_methodology_make_a_movie
Slashdotted and Dugg journalist:
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.info/share/cje_bibliography_08.odt (ODF format)
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.info/share/cje_bibliography_08.pdf (PDF format)
Moderator, Open Source Business Conference, 2005:
http://www.idgworldexpo.com/live/13/events/13SFO05A/conference/bio//CMONYA00BBJY
Keynote speaker at the OpenOffice.org Conference, 2004, Berlin:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2004/friday.html
Interviewed on MakeZine about DIYparts.org
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/make_audio_show_5.html
Christian Einfeldt’s Contact Settings
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