Drumbeat/projects

Mozilla Drumbeat projects exist to ensure an open web for all, and to create new products which help people. Here is a very incomplete list of projects:

Initial Projects:

stopbadware.org

Community organization & web site focused on stopping malware and viruses

P2PU Open Web Career Track

Work with P2P university to run courses where people teach each other open web tech as an alternative or supplement to maintstream tech certification

Open Web Movie Idea

Universal Subtitles

Creating an open and intuitive system that enables anyone to create and view subtitles for videos on the web

Ultimate Open Web Presentation Challenge

Explain the Open Web to your Parents in 5 minutes or less

"Understanding The Net"

A documentation to explain to parents and kids what to do and not to do on the Net. We need to teach our kids the Internet just like we teach them the street ("Don't accept cookies from strangers, be careful when crossing the street"). Except that we don't understand the Net like we understand the street.

Privacy Icon Design Challenge

Engaging design, law students and everyday web users to develop icons that make privacy policies easier to understand

Open Video in 60 seconds

A contest to create videos that demonstrate the creative and technical potential of HTML5 video

‘Fair Mobile’ index

Like the Economist's 'Big Mac Index' comparing purchasing power, but focused on comparing mobile markets for fairness and openness.

Visualize the Net Artist Gallery

Organize a local Drumbeat event

"Mozillaca"

A microblogging site (like Twitter) that supports the Mozilla Community and the Open Web!

Privacy Fox

"Drumbeat P2P"

Make Drumbeat more social

Visualizing the open internet’ challenge

Using art, design and data to map the internet -- to help all of us understand the web, how it works and what it means

"I <3 the Open Web"

A site that aggregates content promoting the open web

"Community Wireless"

Creating a Free Community Wireless System in Italy(?)

Blog widget that routes around censorship

Jonathan Zittrain's idea to enable people to crowdsource cache censored content

Open Hat Tip System

A free system to thank (and potentially compensate) content creators for their work

Improving the open font library

Create a next generation open font library for HTML 5

Assisting bots in crawling the web better

Better automated site maps

Kiss IE6 Goodbye

Mobilize major sites to set a joint deadline to stop supporting IE

RU Drumbeat

Organize cooperation between local social project management networks developers community, local volunteering communities and international Mozilla Drumbeat movement

K-12 Drumbeat

Helping Primary and Secondary Education make the most of the open web.

TsunamiShark , VolcanoShark

A project to create a newsreader which operates like a browser under the rules of Mozilla.