diff --git a/fossgis14/__init__.py b/fossgis14/__init__.py
index a9023bb..7d9bf41 100644
--- a/fossgis14/__init__.py
+++ b/fossgis14/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+from renderlib import *
 
 # URL to Schedule-XML
 scheduleUrl = 'http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/programm/schedule.de.xml'
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ def debug():
 
 def tasks(queue):
 	# iterate over all events extracted from the schedule xml-export
-	for event in events():
+	for event in events(scheduleUrl, titlemap):
 
 		# generate a task description and put them into the queue
 		queue.put(Rendertask(
diff --git a/make.py b/make.py
index 30835da..8008204 100755
--- a/make.py
+++ b/make.py
@@ -1,44 +1,16 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
-# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
 
 import sys
-import glob
 import os
-import re
-import math
 import time
 import shutil
-import errno
-from urllib.request import urlopen
 from lxml import etree
-from xml.sax.saxutils import escape as xmlescape
-import cssutils
-import logging
 import tempfile
 import threading
 import multiprocessing
 from threading import Thread, Lock
-import subprocess
 from queue import Queue
-
-class Rendertask:
-	def __init__(self, infile, sequence, parameters={}, outfile=None, workdir='.'):
-		self.infile =  infile
-		self.sequence = sequence
-		self.parameters = parameters
-		self.outfile = outfile
-		self.workdir = workdir
-
-	def fromtupel(tuple):
-		return Rendertask(tuple[0], tuple[2], tuple[3], tuple[1])
-
-	def ensure(input):
-		if isinstance(input, tuple):
-			return Rendertask.fromtupel(input)
-		elif isinstance(input, Rendertask):
-			return input
-		else:
-			return None
+import renderlib
 
 # Project-Name
 if len(sys.argv) < 2:
@@ -47,191 +19,26 @@ if len(sys.argv) < 2:
 
 projectname = sys.argv[1].strip('/')
 try:
-	sys.path.append(projectname)
-	project = __import__(projectname)
+	project = renderlib.loadProject(projectname)
 except ImportError:
 	print("you must specify a project-name as first argument, eg. './make.py sotmeu14'. The supplied value '{0}' seems not to be a valid project (there is no '{0}/__init__.py').".format(projectname))
 	sys.exit(1)
 
-# Frames per second. Increasing this renders more frames, the avconf-statements would still need modifications
-fps = 25
-
 # using --debug skips the threading, the network fetching of the schedule and
 # just renders one type of video
-debug = ('--debug' in sys.argv)
-
-# using --offline only skips the network fetching and use a local schedule.de.xml
-offline = ('--offline' in sys.argv)
-
-# try to create all folders needed and skip, they already exist
-def ensurePathExists(path):
-	try:
-		os.makedirs(path)
-	except OSError as exception:
-		if exception.errno != errno.EEXIST:
-			raise
-
-# remove the files matched by the pattern
-def ensureFilesRemoved(pattern):
-	for f in glob.glob(pattern):
-		os.unlink(f)
-
-cssutils.ser.prefs.lineSeparator = ' '
-cssutils.log.setLevel(logging.FATAL)
+renderlib.debug = ('--debug' in sys.argv)
 
 def render(infile, outfile, sequence, parameters={}, workdir=os.path.join(projectname, 'artwork')):
-	return rendertask(Rendertask(infile=infile, outfile=outfile, sequence=sequence, parameters=parameters, workdir=workdir))
-
-def rendertask(task):
-	# in debug mode we have no thread-worker which prints its progress
-	if debug:
-		print("generating {0} from {1}".format(task.outfile, task.infile))
-
-	# make sure a .frames-directory exists in out workdir
-	ensurePathExists(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.frames'))
-
-	# open and parse the input file
-	with open(os.path.join(task.workdir, task.infile), 'r') as fp:
-		svgstr = fp.read()
-		for key in task.parameters.keys():
-			svgstr = svgstr.replace(key, xmlescape(str(task.parameters[key])))
-
-		svg = etree.fromstring(svgstr.encode('utf-8'))
-
-	# frame-number counter
-	frameNr = 0
-
-	# iterate through the animation seqence frame by frame
-	# frame is a ... tbd
-	for frame in task.sequence():
-		# print a line for each and every frame generated
-		if debug:
-			print("frameNr {0:2d} => {1}".format(frameNr, frame))
-
-		# open the output-file (named ".gen.svg" in the workdir)
-		with open(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.gen.svg'), 'w') as fp:
-			# apply the replace-pairs to the input text, by finding the specified xml-elements by thier id and modify thier css-parameter the correct value
-			for replaceinfo in frame:
-				(id, type, key, value) = replaceinfo
-
-				for el in svg.findall(".//*[@id='"+id.replace("'", "\\'")+"']"):
-					if type == 'style':
-						style = cssutils.parseStyle( el.attrib['style'] if 'style' in el.attrib else '' )
-						style[key] = str(value)
-						el.attrib['style'] = style.cssText
-
-					elif type == 'attr':
-						el.attrib[key] = value
-
-			# write the generated svg-text into the output-file
-			fp.write( etree.tostring(svg, encoding='unicode') )
-
-		# invoke inkscape to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
-		errorReturn = subprocess.check_output('cd {0} && inkscape --export-png=.frames/{1:04d}.png .gen.svg 2>&1 >/dev/null'.format(task.workdir, frameNr), shell=True, universal_newlines=True)
-		if errorReturn != '':
-			print("inkscape exitted with error\n"+errorReturn)
-			sys.exit(42)
-
-		# increment frame-number
-		frameNr += 1
-
-
-
-	# remove the dv we are about to (re-)generate
-	ensureFilesRemoved(os.path.join(task.workdir, task.outfile))
-
-	# invoke avconv aka ffmpeg and renerate a lossles-dv from the frames
-	#  if we're not in debug-mode, suppress all output
-	os.system('cd {0} && ffmpeg -ar 48000 -ac 2 -f s16le -i /dev/zero -f image2 -i .frames/%04d.png -target pal-dv -aspect 16:9 -shortest "{1}"'.format(task.workdir, task.outfile) + ('' if debug else '>/dev/null 2>&1'))
-
-	# as before, in non-debug-mode the thread-worker does all progress messages
-	if debug:
-		print("cleanup")
-
-	# remove the .frames-dir with all frames in it
-	shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.frames'))
-
-	# remove the generated svg
-	ensureFilesRemoved(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.gen.svg'))
-
-
-
-# Download the Events-Schedule and parse all Events out of it. Yield a tupel for each Event
-def events():
-	print("downloading pentabarf schedule")
-
-	# use --offline to skip networking
-	if offline:
-		# parse the offline-version
-		schedule = etree.parse('schedule.de.xml').getroot()
-
-	else:
-		# download the schedule
-		response = urlopen(project.scheduleUrl)
-
-		# read xml-source
-		xml = response.read()
-
-		# parse into ElementTree
-		schedule = etree.fromstring(xml)
-
-	# iterate all days
-	for day in schedule.iter('day'):
-		# iterate all rooms
-		for room in day.iter('room'):
-			# iterate events on that day in this room
-			for event in room.iter('event'):
-				# aggregate names of the persons holding this talk
-				personnames = []
-				if event.find('persons') is not None:
-					for person in event.find('persons').iter('person'):
-						personnames.append(person.text)
-
-				# yield a tupel with the event-id, event-title and person-names
-				yield {
-					'id': int(event.get('id')),
-					'title': project.titlemap[id] if id in project.titlemap else event.find('title').text,
-					'subtitle': event.find('subtitle').text if event.find('subtitle') is not None else '',
-					'persons': personnames,
-					'personnames': ', '.join(personnames)
-				}
-
-# expose helper-methods method to project
-project.events = events
-project.render = render
-project.rendertask = rendertask
-project.Rendertask = Rendertask
-
-project.fps = fps
-
-# t: current time, b: begInnIng value, c: change In value, d: duration
-# copied from jqueryui
-def easeOutCubic(t, b, c, d):
-	t=float(t)/d-1
-	return c*((t)*t*t + 1) + b
-
-def easeInCubic(t, b, c, d):
-	t=float(t)/d
-	return c*(t)*t*t + b;
-
-def easeOutQuad(t, b, c, d):
-	t=float(t)/d
-	return -c *(t)*(t-2) + b;
-
-def easeLinear(t, b, c, d):
-	t=float(t)/d
-	return t*c+b
-
-# expose easings to project # HACKYYYYY
-project.easeOutCubic = easeOutCubic
-project.easeInCubic = easeInCubic
-project.easeOutQuad = easeOutQuad
-project.easeLinear = easeLinear
+	task = renderlib.Rendertask(infile=infile, outfile=outfile, sequence=sequence, parameters=parameters, workdir=workdir)
+	return renderlib.rendertask(task)
 
 # debug-mode selected by --debug switch
-if debug:
+if renderlib.debug:
 	print("!!! DEBUG MODE !!!")
 
+	# expose debug-render method
+	project.render = render
+
 	# call into project which calls render as needed
 	project.debug()
 
@@ -286,7 +93,7 @@ def worker():
 	# loop until all tasks are done (when the thread fetches a sentinal from the queue)
 	while True:
 		# fetch a task from the queue
-		task = Rendertask.ensure(tasks.get())
+		task = renderlib.Rendertask.ensure(tasks.get())
 
 		# if it is a stop-sentinal break out of the loop
 		if task == None:
@@ -301,7 +108,7 @@ def worker():
 		task.workdir = workdir
 
 		# render with these arguments
-		rendertask(task)
+		renderlib.rendertask(task)
 
 		# print that we're finished
 		tprint('finished {0}, {1} tasks left'.format(task.outfile, max(0, tasks.qsize() - num_worker_threads)))
diff --git a/renderlib.py b/renderlib.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9019e57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/renderlib.py
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import os
+import sys
+import glob
+import math
+import shutil
+import errno
+from lxml import etree
+from xml.sax.saxutils import escape as xmlescape
+import cssutils
+import logging
+import subprocess
+from urllib.request import urlopen
+
+# Frames per second. Increasing this renders more frames, the avconf-statements would still need modifications
+fps = 25
+debug = False
+
+cssutils.ser.prefs.lineSeparator = ' '
+cssutils.log.setLevel(logging.FATAL)
+
+def loadProject(projectname):
+	sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), projectname))
+	return __import__(projectname)
+
+# t: current time, b: begInnIng value, c: change In value, d: duration
+# copied from jqueryui
+def easeOutCubic(t, b, c, d):
+	t=float(t)/d-1
+	return c*((t)*t*t + 1) + b
+
+def easeInCubic(t, b, c, d):
+	t=float(t)/d
+	return c*(t)*t*t + b;
+
+def easeOutQuad(t, b, c, d):
+	t=float(t)/d
+	return -c *(t)*(t-2) + b;
+
+def easeLinear(t, b, c, d):
+	t=float(t)/d
+	return t*c+b
+
+class Rendertask:
+	def __init__(self, infile, sequence, parameters={}, outfile=None, workdir='.'):
+		self.infile =  infile
+		self.sequence = sequence
+		self.parameters = parameters
+		self.outfile = outfile
+		self.workdir = workdir
+
+	def fromtupel(tuple):
+		return Rendertask(tuple[0], tuple[2], tuple[3], tuple[1])
+
+	def ensure(input):
+		if isinstance(input, tuple):
+			return Rendertask.fromtupel(input)
+		elif isinstance(input, Rendertask):
+			return input
+		else:
+			return None
+
+# try to create all folders needed and skip, they already exist
+def ensurePathExists(path):
+	try:
+		os.makedirs(path)
+	except OSError as exception:
+		if exception.errno != errno.EEXIST:
+			raise
+
+# remove the files matched by the pattern
+def ensureFilesRemoved(pattern):
+	for f in glob.glob(pattern):
+		os.unlink(f)
+
+def rendertask(task):
+	# in debug mode we have no thread-worker which prints its progress
+	if debug:
+		print("generating {0} from {1}".format(task.outfile, task.infile))
+
+	# make sure a .frames-directory exists in out workdir
+	ensurePathExists(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.frames'))
+
+	# open and parse the input file
+	with open(os.path.join(task.workdir, task.infile), 'r') as fp:
+		svgstr = fp.read()
+		for key in task.parameters.keys():
+			svgstr = svgstr.replace(key, xmlescape(str(task.parameters[key])))
+
+		svg = etree.fromstring(svgstr.encode('utf-8'))
+
+	# frame-number counter
+	frameNr = 0
+
+	# iterate through the animation seqence frame by frame
+	# frame is a ... tbd
+	for frame in task.sequence():
+		# print a line for each and every frame generated
+		if debug:
+			print("frameNr {0:2d} => {1}".format(frameNr, frame))
+
+		# open the output-file (named ".gen.svg" in the workdir)
+		with open(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.gen.svg'), 'w') as fp:
+			# apply the replace-pairs to the input text, by finding the specified xml-elements by thier id and modify thier css-parameter the correct value
+			for replaceinfo in frame:
+				(id, type, key, value) = replaceinfo
+
+				for el in svg.findall(".//*[@id='"+id.replace("'", "\\'")+"']"):
+					if type == 'style':
+						style = cssutils.parseStyle( el.attrib['style'] if 'style' in el.attrib else '' )
+						style[key] = str(value)
+						el.attrib['style'] = style.cssText
+
+					elif type == 'attr':
+						el.attrib[key] = value
+
+			# write the generated svg-text into the output-file
+			fp.write( etree.tostring(svg, encoding='unicode') )
+
+		# invoke inkscape to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
+		errorReturn = subprocess.check_output('cd {0} && inkscape --export-png=.frames/{1:04d}.png .gen.svg 2>&1 >/dev/null'.format(task.workdir, frameNr), shell=True, universal_newlines=True)
+		if errorReturn != '':
+			print("inkscape exitted with error\n"+errorReturn)
+			sys.exit(42)
+
+		# increment frame-number
+		frameNr += 1
+
+
+
+	# remove the dv we are about to (re-)generate
+	ensureFilesRemoved(os.path.join(task.workdir, task.outfile))
+
+	# invoke avconv aka ffmpeg and renerate a lossles-dv from the frames
+	#  if we're not in debug-mode, suppress all output
+	os.system('cd {0} && ffmpeg -ar 48000 -ac 2 -f s16le -i /dev/zero -f image2 -i .frames/%04d.png -target pal-dv -aspect 16:9 -shortest "{1}"'.format(task.workdir, task.outfile) + ('' if debug else '>/dev/null 2>&1'))
+
+	# as before, in non-debug-mode the thread-worker does all progress messages
+	if debug:
+		print("cleanup")
+
+	# remove the .frames-dir with all frames in it
+	shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.frames'))
+
+	# remove the generated svg
+	ensureFilesRemoved(os.path.join(task.workdir, '.gen.svg'))
+
+
+# Download the Events-Schedule and parse all Events out of it. Yield a tupel for each Event
+def events(scheduleUrl, titlemap={}):
+	print("downloading pentabarf schedule")
+
+	# download the schedule
+	response = urlopen(scheduleUrl)
+
+	# read xml-source
+	xml = response.read()
+
+	# parse into ElementTree
+	schedule = etree.fromstring(xml)
+
+	# iterate all days
+	for day in schedule.iter('day'):
+		# iterate all rooms
+		for room in day.iter('room'):
+			# iterate events on that day in this room
+			for event in room.iter('event'):
+				# aggregate names of the persons holding this talk
+				personnames = []
+				if event.find('persons') is not None:
+					for person in event.find('persons').iter('person'):
+						personnames.append(person.text)
+
+				# yield a tupel with the event-id, event-title and person-names
+				yield {
+					'id': int(event.get('id')),
+					'title': titlemap[id] if id in titlemap else event.find('title').text,
+					'subtitle': event.find('subtitle').text if event.find('subtitle') is not None else '',
+					'persons': personnames,
+					'personnames': ', '.join(personnames)
+				}