Most people interact with free software every day, but many of those people don't know what free software is or why they should go out of their way to use it. We want to fix that (and we think you do too), so we commissioned a short video that makes free software easy for everyone to understand.

The Free Software Foundation partnered with Urchin to make this animated introduction to free software. Urchin made the video using free software. People have been looking to the FSF for thirty years for explanations about the importance of free software. We want to make more videos like this, and other materials, but they cost money. If we meet our annual fundraising goal of $525,000 by January 31st, you can be sure there will be more great projects to come in 2015.

This is the biggest fundraising week of the year, and we still have a ways to go if we are to meet our goal by January 31st. Please show your love for this video by making a donation or becoming a member today.

Mirrored from: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/user-liberation-watch-and-share-our-new-video

Video credits

Urchin

Fateh Slavitskaya (Script, Voice, Production), Bassam Kurdali (Animation, Production)

Free Software Foundation

Libby Reinish, John Sullivan, Zak Rogoff

Sound

To the extent possible under law, the authors (listed by freesound.org username) of the SFX below have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to these works to the public domain worldwide via the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) declaration and license.

Here's a short URL for easy sharing: https://u.fsf.org/user-liberation

gong by airtaxi far off boom by CaCtUs2003 digital bells up down by crashoverride61088 fast simple chop 1 by dave des digital camera on by davidbain big-room-ambience-1 by ecfike crumple dry leaf 1 by elliotlp crumple dry leaf 2 by elliotlp ambience with modulation by flint10 room tone ambience large theatre low hum by gchase typing by hunter4708 determined typing on a keyboard by irishcinema alaskan air traffic control by jamesabdulrahman digital data beeps by jasonlon digital hit by lavik89 digital switch by lloydevans09 digital whoosh soft by ludvique dmp car passby 2 by martypinso dmp int car passby 1 by martypinso metallic whoosh by misscellany highway, atmo, distant by monotraum couch quick rise up 4 bip by muses212 cinematic impact by northern monkey apox by pandotrixemark balloon rub by simosco boom by snapper4298 rain cracking rumbling by soundsexciting cinematic deep tremor by swiftoid underwater ambience lake lbj 08232013 1 by wjoojoo heartbeatnew by woodingp The following SFX were released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license on freesound.org:

large-anvil-steel-hammer by benboncan jets-low-pass by primeval-polypod Original music and SFX by James P. McQuoid is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Software

Script: gedit, Piratepad, TextPlay (command line fountain renderer), Trelby (dedicated screenwriting application) Sound recording: Audacity (voice), Ardour (music) Story boards: Krita Vector Mockups: Inkscape Visuals, animation, rendering, editing, sound editing: Blender webm encoding: Transmageddon (first batch), Pitivi (second batch)