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Our fourth core team member is <strong>Robert Kirk</strong>, our <strong>Documentation Manager</strong>. Rob is an award-winning documentary producer who will head our efforts to produce documentation that carefully shows how to produce the machines of the Global Village Construction Set. He will focus both on documentation and video production. We look forward to the next generation of crystal-clear explainer videos that will bring our work to a much broader audience. | Our fourth core team member is <strong>Robert Kirk</strong>, our <strong>Documentation Manager</strong>. Rob is an award-winning documentary producer who will head our efforts to produce documentation that carefully shows how to produce the machines of the Global Village Construction Set. He will focus both on documentation and video production. We look forward to the next generation of crystal-clear explainer videos that will bring our work to a much broader audience. | ||
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His first project will be producing a video that captures the essence of our development jams. The video will show the nuts and bolts of the techniques that we are experimenting with to deliver on the promise of rapid, collaborative development. | His first project will be producing a video that captures the essence of our development jams. The video will show the nuts and bolts of the techniques that we are experimenting with to deliver on the promise of rapid, collaborative development. | ||
Revision as of 20:27, 23 May 2013
Our fourth core team member is Robert Kirk, our Documentation Manager. Rob is an award-winning documentary producer who will head our efforts to produce documentation that carefully shows how to produce the machines of the Global Village Construction Set. He will focus both on documentation and video production. We look forward to the next generation of crystal-clear explainer videos that will bring our work to a much broader audience.
His first project will be producing a video that captures the essence of our development jams. The video will show the nuts and bolts of the techniques that we are experimenting with to deliver on the promise of rapid, collaborative development.
As co-founder of Digital Ranch Productions and Texture, Inc., Rob brings a wealth of experience to this task. He is an Emmy Award-winning producer/director with over 30 years of television, feature film, commercial and interactive experience. He has developed multiple award-winning series for a variety of networks including Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Tru TV, A&E, History, and Investigation Discovery.
Rob's feature documentary, Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness, won Best Documentary at the Hollywood Film Festival, and was featured at the United Nations in New York. The film, about a Japanese rescuer of Jews in WWII, aired nationally on PBS. He was nominated for an Emmy for his three hour special, The Last Days of World War II, and received an Emmy for his special, Remembering World War II: Pearl Harbor.
Luckily for us, Rob leapt at the opportunity to work with Open Source Ecology:
My biggest thrill as a filmmaker is to be able to tell a great story... and Open Source Ecology is an amazing story! When I first learned about Marcin and his vision my immediate reaction was, "how can I be part of that?" Now I'm tremendously excited to lend my experience to documenting the growth of OSE and be able to create videos and written materials that can spread the "word" and help make the tools accessible to people around the globe. Hopefully my role will help turn this world-changing dream into a tangible reality.
Rob's partnership with us will be a great opportunity to develop our collaborative, remote video editing methods to leverage the collaborative production power of our global support community.