diff --git a/2014/make.py b/2014/make.py
index 0365b4a..276ca1b 100755
--- a/2014/make.py
+++ b/2014/make.py
@@ -17,39 +17,55 @@ import multiprocessing
 from threading import Thread, Lock
 from Queue import Queue
 
-# Debug rendert einen Vor- und einen Abspann
+# 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)
+
+# set charset of output-terminal
 reload(sys)
 sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
 
 # 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 ensure_path_exists(path):
+# 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
 
-def ensure_files_removed(files):
-	for f in glob.glob(files):
+# remove the files matched by the pattern
+def ensureFilesRemoved(pattern):
+	for f in glob.glob(pattern):
 		os.unlink(f)
 
+# Normalizes string, converts to lowercase, removes non-alpha characters,
+ #and converts spaces to hyphens.
 def slugify(value):
-	"""
-	Normalizes string, converts to lowercase, removes non-alpha characters,
-	and converts spaces to hyphens.
-	"""
 	value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
 	value = unicode(re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', value).strip().lower())
 	value = unicode(re.sub('[-\s]+', '-', value))
 	return value
 
+# create a filename from the events' id and a slugified version of the title
+def vorspannFilename(id, title):
+	return u'{0:04d}-{1}.mp4'.format(id, slugify(unicode(title)))
+
+# svg does not have a method for automatic line breaking, that rsvg is capable of
+# so we do it in python as good as we can
+def vorspannTitle(title):
+	return '</tspan><tspan x="150" dy="45">'.join(textwrap.wrap(title, 35))
 
 
 
@@ -57,291 +73,366 @@ def abspannFrames():
 	# 5 Sekunden
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Fadein Text
-	frame = 0
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames), 0)
+		yield {
+			'%opacity': easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames),
+			'%opacityLizenz': 0
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunde Fadein Lizenz-Logo
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 1, float(i)/frames)
+		yield {
+			'%opacity': 1,
+			'%opacityLizenz': float(i)/frames
+		}
 
 	# 1 Sekunde stehen bleiben
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 1*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 1, 1)
+		yield {
+			'%opacity': 1,
+			'%opacityLizenz': 1
+		}
 
 def vorspannFrames():
 	# 7 Sekunden
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Text 1
-	frame = 0
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames), easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames), 0)
+		yield {
+			'%opacityBox': easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames),
+			'%opacity1': easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames),
+			'%opacity2': 0
+		}
 
 	# 1 Sekunde Fadeout Text 1
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 1*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 1, 1-(float(i)/frames), 0)
+		yield {
+			'%opacityBox': 1,
+			'%opacity1': 1-(float(i)/frames),
+			'%opacity2': 0
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Text 2
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 1, 0, easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames))
+		yield {
+			'%opacityBox': 1,
+			'%opacity1': 0,
+			'%opacity2': easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames)
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunden stehen bleiben
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 1, 0, 1)
+		yield {
+			'%opacityBox': 1,
+			'%opacity1': 0,
+			'%opacity2': 1
+		}
 
 def pauseFrames():
 	# 12 Sekunden
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Text1 stehen
-	frame = 0
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 1, 0)
+		yield {
+			'%opacity1': 1,
+			'%opacity2': 0
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Fadeout Text1
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 1-easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames), 0)
+		yield {
+			'%opacity1': 1-easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames),
+			'%opacity2': 0
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Fadein Text2
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 0, easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames))
+		yield {
+			'%opacity1': 0,
+			'%opacity2': easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames)
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Text2 stehen
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 0, 1)
+		yield {
+			'%opacity1': 0,
+			'%opacity2': 1
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Fadeout Text2
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, 0, 1-easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames))
+		yield {
+			'%opacity1': 0,
+			'%opacity2': 1-easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames)
+		}
 
 	# 2 Sekunden Fadein Text1
-	frame = frame+i+1
 	frames = 2*fps
 	for i in range(0, frames):
-		yield (frame+i, easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames), 0)
+		yield {
+			'%opacity1': easeOutCubic(i, 0, 1, frames),
+			'%opacity2': 0
+		}
 
 
-def abspann(lizenz, workdir='artwork', outdir='..'):
+def render(infile, outfile, sequence, parameters={}, workdir='artwork'):
+	# in debug mode we have no thread-worker which prints its progress
 	if debug:
-		print "erzeuge Abspann"
+		print "generating {0} from {1}".format(outfile, infile)
 
-	filename = os.path.join(outdir, 'abspann-{0}.mp4'.format(lizenz))
+	# make sure a .frames-directory exists in out workdir
+	ensurePathExists(os.path.join(workdir, '.frames'))
 
-	ensure_path_exists(os.path.join(workdir, '.frames'))
+	# open and parse the input file
+	with open(os.path.join(workdir, infile), 'r') as fp:
+		svg = fp.read()
 
-	with open(os.path.join(workdir, 'abspann.svg'), 'r') as abspann_file:
-		abspann = abspann_file.read()
+	# frame-number counter
+	frameNr = 0
 
-	for (frameNr, opacity, opacityLizenz) in abspannFrames():
+	# iterate through the animation seqence frame by frame
+	# frame is a dictionary with key/value-pairs ("replace-pairs"), where the key
+	# is searched for in the source svg-file and every occurence is replaced by
+	# its companion the value
+	for frame in sequence():
+		# print a line for each and every frame generated
 		if debug:
-			print "frameNr {0:2d} => opacity {1:0.2f}, opacityLizenz {2:0.2f}".format(frameNr, opacity, opacityLizenz)
+			print "frameNr {0:2d} => {1}".format(frameNr, frame)
 
-		pairs = \
-			('%opacityLizenz', str(opacityLizenz)), \
-			('%opacity', str(opacity)), \
-			('%lizenz', lizenz), \
-			('%workdir', os.path.realpath(workdir) )
+		# extend the frame-dictionary with additional replace-pairs from the arguments
+		frame.update(parameters)
 
-		with open(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'), 'w') as gen_file:
-			gen_abspann = reduce(lambda a, kv: a.replace(*kv), pairs, abspann)
-			gen_file.write( gen_abspann )
+		# add some more useful replace-pairs
+		frame['%workdir'] = os.path.realpath(workdir)
 
+		# open the output-file (named ".gen.svg" in the workdir)
+		with open(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'), 'w') as fp:
+			# apply the replace-pairs to the input text, by replacing each key with its companion value
+			gen_svg = reduce(lambda x, y: x.replace(y, str(frame[y])), frame, svg)
+
+			# write the generated svg-text into the output-file
+			fp.write( gen_svg )
+
+		# invoke rsvg to convert the generated svg-file into a png inside the .frames-directory
 		os.system('cd {0} && rsvg-convert .gen.svg > .frames/{1:04d}.png'.format(workdir, frameNr))
 
-	ensure_files_removed(filename)
-	os.system('cd {0} && avconv -f image2 -i .frames/%04d.png -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -qp 0 "{1}"'.format(workdir, filename) + ('' if debug else '>/dev/null 2>&1'))
+		# incrwement frame-number
+		frameNr += 1
 
+	# remove the mp4 we are about to (re-)generate
+	ensureFilesRemoved(os.path.join(workdir, outfile))
+
+	# invoke avconv aka ffmpeg and renerate a lossles-mp4 from the frames
+	#  if we're not in debug-mode, suppress all output
+	os.system('cd {0} && avconv -f image2 -i .frames/%04d.png -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -qp 0 "{1}"'.format(workdir, outfile) + ('' if debug else '>/dev/null 2>&1'))
+
+	# as before, in non-debug-mode the thread-worker does all progress messages
 	if debug:
-		print "aufräumen"
+		print "cleanup"
+
+	# remove the .frames-dir with all frames in it
 	shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(workdir, '.frames'))
-	ensure_files_removed(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'))
 
-def vorspann(id, title, personnames, workdir='artwork', outdir='..'):
-	if debug:
-		print u'erzeuge Vorspann für {0:4d} ("{1}")'.format(id, title)
-
-	filename = os.path.join( outdir, u'{0:04d}-{1}.mp4'.format(id, slugify(unicode(title))) )
-
-	ensure_path_exists(os.path.join(workdir, '.frames'))
-
-	with open(os.path.join(workdir, 'vorspann.svg'), 'r') as vorspann_file:
-		vorspann = vorspann_file.read()
-
-	# svg does not have a method for automatic line breaking, that rsvg is capable of
-	# so we do it in python as good as we can
-	breaktitle = '</tspan><tspan x="150" dy="45">'.join(textwrap.wrap(title, 35))
-
-	for (frameNr, opacityBox, opacity1, opacity2) in vorspannFrames():
-		if debug:
-			print "frameNr {0:2d} => opacityBox {1:0.2f}, opacity1 {2:0.2f}, opacity2 {3:0.2f}".format(frameNr, opacityBox, opacity1, opacity2)
-
-		pairs = \
-			('%opacity1', str(opacity1)), \
-			('%opacity2', str(opacity2)), \
-			('%opacityBox', str(opacityBox)), \
-			('%id', str(id)), \
-			('%title', breaktitle), \
-			('%personnames', personnames), \
-			('%workdir', os.path.realpath(workdir) )
-
-		with open(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'), 'w') as gen_file:
-			gen_vorspann = reduce(lambda a, kv: a.replace(*kv), pairs, vorspann)
-			gen_file.write( gen_vorspann )
-
-		os.system('cd {0} && rsvg-convert .gen.svg > .frames/{1:04d}.png'.format(workdir, frameNr))
-
-	ensure_files_removed(filename)
-	os.system(u'cd {0} && avconv -f image2 -i .frames/%04d.png -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -qp 0 "{1}"'.format(workdir, filename) + ('' if debug else '>/dev/null 2>&1'))
-
-	if debug:
-		print "aufräumen"
-	shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(workdir, '.frames'))
-	ensure_files_removed(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'))
-
-def pause(workdir='artwork', outdir='..'):
-	if debug:
-		print "erzeuge Pause-Loop"
-
-	filename = os.path.join(outdir, 'pause.mp4')
-	dvfilename = os.path.join(outdir, 'pause.dv')
-
-	ensure_path_exists(os.path.join(workdir, '.frames'))
-
-	with open(os.path.join(workdir, 'pause.svg'), 'r') as pause_file:
-		pause = pause_file.read()
-
-	for (frameNr, opacity1, opacity2) in pauseFrames():
-		if debug:
-			print "frameNr {0:2d} => opacity1 {1:0.2f}, opacity2 {2:0.2f}".format(frameNr, opacity1, opacity2)
-
-		pairs = \
-			('%opacity1', str(opacity1)), \
-			('%opacity2', str(opacity2)), \
-			('%workdir', os.path.realpath(workdir) )
-
-		with open(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'), 'w') as gen_file:
-			gen_pause = reduce(lambda a, kv: a.replace(*kv), pairs, pause)
-			gen_file.write( gen_pause )
-
-		os.system('cd {0} && rsvg-convert .gen.svg > .frames/{1:04d}.png'.format(workdir, frameNr))
-
-	ensure_files_removed(filename)
-	os.system('cd {0} && avconv -f image2 -i .frames/%04d.png -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -qp 0 "{1}"'.format(workdir, filename) + ('' if debug else '>/dev/null 2>&1'))
-
-	ensure_files_removed(dvfilename)
-	os.system('cd {0} && avconv -f image2 -i .frames/%04d.png -target pal-dv "{1}"'.format(workdir, dvfilename) + ('' if debug else '>/dev/null 2>&1'))
-
-	if debug:
-		print "aufräumen"
-	shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(workdir, '.frames'))
-	ensure_files_removed(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'))
+	# remove the generated svg
+	ensureFilesRemoved(os.path.join(workdir, '.gen.svg'))
 
 
+
+# Download the Events-Schedule ans parse all Events out of it. Yield a tupel for each Event
 def events():
 	print "downloading pentabarf schedule"
-	response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/programm/schedule.de.xml')
-	xml = response.read()
-	schedule = ET.fromstring(xml)
-	#schedule = ET.parse('schedule.de.xml')
 
+	# use --offline to skip networking
+	if offline:
+		# parse the offline-version
+		schedule = ET.parse('schedule.de.xml').getroot()
+
+	else:
+		# download the schedule
+		response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/programm/schedule.de.xml')
+
+		# read xml-source
+		xml = response.read()
+
+		# parse into ElementTree
+		schedule = ET.fromstring(xml)
+
+	# iterate all days
 	for day in schedule.iter('day'):
-		date = day.get('date')
+		# 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 = []
 				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 ( int(event.get('id')), event.find('title').text, ', '.join(personnames) )
 
 
-
+# debug-mode selected by --debug switch
 if debug:
 	print "!!! DEBUG MODE !!!"
-	vorspann(667, 'OpenJUMP - Überblick, Neuigkeiten, Zusammenarbeit/Schnittstellen mit proprietärer Software', 'Matthias Scholz')
-	abspann('by-sa')
-	pause()
+	title = 'OpenJUMP - Überblick, Neuigkeiten, Zusammenarbeit/Schnittstellen mit proprietärer Software'
+
+	render(
+		'vorspann.svg',
+		os.path.join('..', vorspannFilename(667, title)),
+		vorspannFrames,
+		{'%id': 664, '%title': vorspannTitle(title), '%personnames': 'Matthias Scholz' }
+	)
+
+	render(
+		'abspann.svg',
+		'../abspann-by-sa.mp4',
+		abspannFrames,
+		{'%lizenz': 'by-sa'}
+	)
+
+	render('pause.svg',
+		'../pause.mp4',
+		pauseFrames
+	)
+
 	sys.exit(0)
 
 
 
-
+# threaded task queue
 tasks = Queue()
 
+# iterate over all events extracted from the schedule xml-export
 for (id, title, personnames) in events():
-	tasks.put( ('vorspann', id, title, personnames) )
+	# generate a task description and put them into the queue
+	tasks.put((
+		'vorspann.svg',
+		vorspannFilename(id, title),
+		vorspannFrames,
+		{'%id':id, '%title':vorspannTitle(title), '%personnames':personnames }
+	))
 
-tasks.put( ('abspann', 'by-sa') )
-tasks.put( ('abspann', 'by-nc-sa') )
-tasks.put( ('abspann', 'cc-zero') )
-tasks.put( ('pause') )
+# iterate over the licences and place a task into the queue
+for lizenz in ('by-sa', 'by-nc-sa', 'cc-zero'):
+	tasks.put((
+		'abspann.svg',
+		'abspann-{0}.mp4'.format(lizenz),
+		abspannFrames,
+		{'%lizenz':lizenz}
+	))
 
+# place the pause-sequence into the queue
+tasks.put((
+	'pause.svg',
+	'pause.mp4',
+	pauseFrames
+))
+
+# one working thread per cpu
 num_worker_threads = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
-print "{0} tasks in queue, starting {1} worker threads".format( tasks.qsize() - num_worker_threads, num_worker_threads )
+print "{0} tasks in queue, starting {1} worker threads".format(tasks.qsize(), num_worker_threads)
 
+# put a sentinel for each thread into the queue to signal the end
 for _ in range(num_worker_threads):
-	tasks.put(None) # put sentinel to signal the end
-
+	tasks.put(None)
 
+# this lock ensures, that only one thread at a time is writing to stdout
+# and avoids output from multiple threads intermixing
 printLock = Lock() 
 def tprint(str):
+	# aquire lock
 	printLock.acquire()
+
+	# print thread-name and message
 	print threading.current_thread().name+': '+str
+
+	# release lock
 	printLock.release()
 
 
-
+# thread worker
 def worker():
-	tempdir = os.path.join(tempfile.mkdtemp(), 'artwork')
+	# generate a tempdir for this worker-thread and use the artwork-subdir as temporary folder
+	tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+	workdir = os.path.join(tempdir, 'artwork')
+
+	# save the current working dir as output-dir
 	outdir = os.getcwd()
 
+	# print a message that we're about to initialize our environment
 	tprint("initializing worker in {0}, writing result to {1}".format(tempdir, outdir))
-	shutil.copytree('artwork', tempdir)
 
+	# copy the artwork-dir into the tempdir
+	shutil.copytree('artwork', workdir)
+
+	# loop until all tasks are done (when the thread fetches a sentinal from the queue)
 	while True:
+		# fetch a task from the queue
 		task = tasks.get()
+
+		# if it is a stop-sentinal break out of the loop
 		if task == None:
 			break
 
-		tprint( 'processing {0}'.format(task) )
-		fnname = task[0]
-		fn = globals()[fnname]
-		opts = task[1:] + (tempdir, outdir)
+		# print that we're about to render a task
+		tprint('rendering {0}'.format(task[1]))
 
-		fn(*opts)
-		tprint( 'finished {0}, {1} tasks left'.format(task, tasks.qsize() - num_worker_threads) )
+		# render options
+		opts = (
+			# argument 0 is the input file. prepend the workdir
+			os.path.join(workdir, task[0]),
+
+			# argument 1 is the output file. prepend the outdir
+			os.path.join(outdir, task[1]),
+
+			# argument 2 is the frame generator, nothing to do here
+			task[2],
+
+			# argument 3 are the extra parameters
+			task[3] if len(task) > 3 else {},
+
+			# argument 4 is the workdir path
+			workdir
+		)
+
+		# render with these arguments
+		render(*opts)
+
+		# print that we're finished
+		tprint('finished {0}, {1} tasks left'.format(task[1], max(0, tasks.qsize() - num_worker_threads)))
+
+		# mark the task as finished
 		tasks.task_done()
 
+	# all tasks from the queue done, clean up
 	tprint("cleaning up worker")
+
+	# remove the tempdir
 	shutil.rmtree(tempdir)
+
+	# mark the sentinal as done
 	tasks.task_done()
 
 
-
+# generate and start the threads
 for i in range(num_worker_threads):
 	t = Thread(target=worker)
 	t.daemon = True
 	t.start()
 
+# wait until they finished doing the work
 tasks.join()
 print "all worker threads ended"